I need to buy a new card that will fit in my 'EVGA Hadron Air Mini-itx' case.
I've been told that because if limited airflow I need to go for a blower style card.
I live in Sweden and looking through the blower style cards avaliable at my price range it really only shows 2. Asus Radeon RX 5700 8G (product specifications say its 27cm long) and the Asus GeForce RTX 2060 Turbo 6G (product specifications say its 26.8cm long).
What I have read about the case is that it supports cards up to 26.7cm. Is this absolute max or could I squeeze another 0.1cm in the case?
If not I think I'm out of luck right? As a normal open air style graphics card will not have enough air flow to perform well enough.

James

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jamos316
What I have read about the case is that it supports cards up to 26.7cm. Is this absolute max or could I squeeze another 0.1cm in the case?

0.1cm is only .040in is only 1mm..I'm sure you could squeeze it in there, things can flex a little, you can make it fit.

jamos316
A normal open air style graphics card will not have enough air flow to perform well enough.

Correct.

Thanks for response.

Also I am confused with if I actually need to go with the blower style as I have people telling me different things.
From my point of view simply looking in the case the gpu slot is very close to the psu. Wouldn't this restrict airflow for the gpu and also what about the heat generated from the psu, would this be a problem?