[ahrhamza]

It is a 3 slot card from the looks, and depending on the height you might have to fold the upper rail on the SG13 to allow it to fit.

The max card length listed for the SG13 is 26.8cm, and the one you have listed is 27.4. More than likely it wont fit without hitting or resting on the front cover.

This is a Red Devil 580, its taller at 15.7cm, compared to 12cm So you might just clear the top rail, however this was a 2.5 slot card or so they say. Its 46mm wide and it was VERY close to hitting the side cover. The one you have listed is a 3 slot card, so check out the actual width.

I had better pictures in my build thread, but they broke everything with the site migration.

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Hey, isn't that Red Devil 580 56mm thick? I was wondering because the MSI Ventus 2x 3070 is 52mm thick and was hoping to squeeze that in the SG13.

 

[ahrhamza]

I am building an sffpc with an SG13 (first build in a decade, first sffpc ever!) and I had a similar question regarding the MSI RTX 3070 2X. You should not worry about length or height with this card, it is about the same size as the Zotac Twin Edge (considerably less than the 270 mmx160ish mm that can fit in the case). The problem with this MSI (and all of the new under 280mm length cards tbh) might be the width (the dual fan ASUS cards, for example, are great lengthwise, but they are super thick - not quite 3 slot cards, but pretty close). In pictures, you can see that it takes a little more than 2 slots, but it seems like it is just small enough to fit (SG13 allows for cards up to 129mm wide, this MSI is 124), It would be a tight fight, but I am guessing it works!

So, if you want a 3070 in your SG13 build, the only options are:

FE Edition
Zotac Twin Edge
MSI Ventus 2X (tight fit)

Would love more feedback if anyone has more info!

Hi,
Isn't the max height for the SG13 129mm? Or am I looking at the number in the wrong context?

 

[ahrhamza]

Hi again! I had an SSD related question! Does anyone here have a SG13 with m.2 ssd's installed both on top AND on the bottom side of their mobos? If so, do they (especially the bottom drive) heat up too much?

I have a Crucial P1 installed behind my Asrock motherboard. It gets very toasty, I've seen it hit 88-90c during sustained reads/writes (downloading a game or copying a large file to another drive). Recently purchased a low profile heatsink for it, but I'm yet to install it.

 

[ahrhamza]

The case is 222mm (W) x 181mm (H) x 285mm (D) . The 129mm is the width restriction for the GPU. Height shouldn't be an issue for the GPU (up to 3070 cards at least).

Yeah I meant 129mm for the GPU. Is this 129mm due to the cutout towards the front panel of the case? Earlier in the thread it was mentioned that the Zotac Twin edge 3070 (232mm x 141mm x 42mm) will fit, and now I'm confused haha..

As for the SSD heatsink, it's a really low profile heatsink - I'll try and get it to fit but I'm really busy these coming weeks so I'll update about this later.

 

[ahrhamza]

Yikes! Do you think there is room for the heatsink under the mobo? I heard from people here there's like less than a 1cm clearance...

Hey, so I installed a low profile heatsink for my P1 under the motherboard. It just about fits - while putting back the mobo I wasn't able to screw in the top left standoff screw, dunno if it's just my fault or the heatsink being a bit too thick. GPU fits no problem right now, hopefully the Ventus 2x will not give any issues either.

The improvement in temps is honestly amazing. Installing SotTR temps peaked at 61C, without it I'd be seeing 85C+. Installation was annoying because I basically had to take out everything to get to the SSD but it's 100% worth it. Amazon link for the heatsink - mine isn't this one exactly but looks to be the same.

 

[ahrhamza]

Do you know the distance between motherboard and the case? My ssd is also on the back and I want to put thermal pad between ssd and the case. Or do I need to put a heatsink between the ssd's heatsink and the case and put thermal pads between those?

The standoff height is 10mm (I remember seeing this number because I searched for it too, but I can't find it now). I doubt 10mm worth of thermal pads would be effective, but it definitely would be really cool if it worked. If your ssd already has a heatsink then there's no point of putting pads between it and the case - the heatsink is already doing its work.

 

[ahrhamza]

Hey guys, I was wondering if a 140mm fan at the front would impact temps in any way. I current have a 3700x with the NH-L12S and have a noctua 1700 rpm redux fan in the front. Will I get any measurable improvements if I switch the front to a NF-A14? I have a 92mm side exhaust as well.

 

[ahrhamza]

Update: So, done some stress testing, ran RDR2 with basically everything on Ultra got 95 FPS average.
Temps maxed on CPU 72C and GPU 70C. Any other high-end game I've tried max settings does not go over 70C on any. , averaged around 65 on both. I can ofc hear the fans from the Ventus 3070 at this point but it is def bearable.

Is your 3700x stock or do you have some sort of an undervolt on it?

 

[ahrhamza]

I managed to get the RTX 3070 Ventus in but can't get it out again. What temps are you getting on GPU at full load?

Have a 3070 ventus too, didn't attempt to take it out though lol, looks like I'll have to do some work with a dremel for that 😂

I undervolted mine to 1860 MHz at 860mV. Rainbow 6 siege, overwatch, Cyberpunk 2077 it goes up till 72C, Control 67C and for lesser demanding games like hollow knight and dark souls it's around 59-62C. Even though I didn't mess with the fan curve, undervolting made the card significantly quieter.

 

[ahrhamza]

Has anyone with a 3070 Ventus 2X taken their card OUT of the case after shoving it in? I have an Ncase M1 coming in next week or so, will be moving my build to that case. Looking at how much space there is between the gpu and the metal bar above it is worrying me. There's like 1-2cm of space there.

 

[ahrhamza]

The options if it is too close are bend the bottom part of the U shaped top rail up out of the way, cut the bottom part of the rail off or remove that rail entirely and replace it with a metal rod.

Any idea what sort of tool I would need to remove the rail? It's secured with some sort of screw with a circular bit thing (I'm sorry I don't know much about this).

 

[ahrhamza]

Has anyone with a 3070 Ventus 2X taken their card OUT of the case after shoving it in? I have an Ncase M1 coming in next week or so, will be moving my build to that case. Looking at how much space there is between the gpu and the metal bar above it is worrying me. There's like 1-2cm of space there.

Just wanted to give an update on this, I took out the card without any modification to the case. Took out the power supply first and then the GPU, came out with a few mm to spare.