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Edit: added images for reference!
2nd Edit: More specific question since one guy seems to just shoot people down, but provides no suggestions beyond it. Thank you so far to folks that are trying to help!
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Hi folks,

I'm currently using an ASUS P8P67 Pro Motherboard and I have 2x R9 290x's on the board.
I have this in an Antec 900.

The 290x's are the reference card + cooler, and I've been eyeing these guys as upgrades for cooling:

http://www.arctic.ac/us_en/accelero-xtreme-iv.html

Will there be room in my case to upgrade both cards?

I've read that this particular cooler will take up 3 slots; right now, the reference cooler takes up two... I *think* there's room but I was hoping to find someone with experience
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MORE SPECIFIC:
Since it doesn't seem like the Accelero Xtreme IV is a viable choice, I'll make the question more generic:

I'd like to come up with a solution to have adequate third party cooling added to the GPUs that will fit in the case, provide sufficient clearing for the cards, and not sound like a jet engine on full speed. (For all the complaints folks have about the reference coolers, they actually do a half decent job keeping the card cool @ 100% fan speed!... it's just *really* loud)

Anyhow, I'm open to swapping out the reference coolers with whatever will fit: air or water cooled.

Thanks for looking!
 
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Ecks9T's reply is incorrect.

You will need at least 4 slot spacing for Eccelero Xtreme IV to work properly.

Eccelero Xtreme IV is 54mm thick plus GPU chip to back of PCB of another 5mm is 59mm. PCI-E socket spacing is 20.32mm making 3 slots 60.96mm. This means the Eccelero will have less than 3mm clearance. Not enough to get airflow fans.
 
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I'm almost 100% sure you could get 2 Prolimatech MK-26 coolers in there, if they share a set of fans (which they can do with no serious issues.
They would fit with the crossfire setup, but without knowing which case you have, I can't be sure it is wide enough. You would need something like 195-200mm from the motherboard to the side panel.
 
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I'm almost 100% sure you could get 2 Prolimatech MK-26 coolers in there, if they share a set of fans (which they can do with no serious issues.
They would fit with the crossfire setup, but without knowing which case you have, I can't be sure it is wide enough. You would need something like 195-200mm from the motherboard to the side panel.
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I'm using an Antec 900 (mentioned in the original post!)
 
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MK-26 is 46mm thick plus fans. Same problem as Accelero Xtreme IV
 
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MK-26 is 46mm thick plus fans. Same problem as Accelero Xtreme IV
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But unlike the Accelero, the MK-26's can share fans. 2 good 140mm fans should do the trick.


Image is of Alpenföhn's GPU cooler as it is the one I could find that best illustrate what I mean. The concept is the same.
 
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But unlike the Accelero, the MK-26's can share fans. 2 good 140mm fans should do the trick.

Image is of Alpenföhn's GPU cooler as it is the one I could find that best illustrate what I mean. The concept is the same.
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I don't like the idea of trying to cool with fans blowing into space where the only exhaust is toward front of case for top GPU and only about 1/4 of fans is blowig on coolers' fin packs.
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I don't like the idea of trying to cool with fans blowing into space where the only exhaust is toward front of case for top GPU and only about 1/4 of fans is blowig on coolers' fin packs.
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nonetheless, it works.
Obviously it is not as efficient as the more common setup, but still far above stock cooling and easily enough unless you are going to do some fairly serious overclocking.

These coolers are seriously good. All the time I used mine, the fans were at 500RPM and the GPU never hit 50C
 
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nonetheless, it works.
Obviously it is not as efficient as the more common setup, but still far above stock cooling and easily enough unless you are going to do some fairly serious overclocking.

These coolers are seriously good. All the time I used mine, the fans were at 500RPM and the GPU never hit 50C
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Was that with 2x GPUs each generating 270-300w of heat with only 2x PCI-E sockets separating them?
 
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Was that with 2x GPUs each generating 270-300w of heat with only 2x PCI-E sockets separating them?
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There's 3 PCI-E slots in between each of them, not 2, but yeah, it's not an ideal situation to be in.

These custom 3rd party solutions need 4-5 slots usually.

I have the same motherboard. Can Crossfire work with x4 connections? Because if it can, you can work with the very bottom slot.
 
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There's 3 PCI-E slots in between each of them, not 2, but yeah, it's not an ideal situation to be in.

These custom 3rd party solutions need 4-5 slots usually.

I have the same motherboard. Can Crossfire work with x4 connections? Because if it can, you can work with the very bottom slot.
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OP looks like 1st and 4th sockets are being used by GPUs taking up 2 slots each. So 1st socket is filled and 4th socket is filled leaving 2nd & 3rd open... 2 unused sockets between them, but only 1 open space because of 2-slot GPU width.
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Sorry, not very knowledgeable about PCI-E and GPU band width but I think you need at least 8x for decent speed.
 
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