Bolt Question

At the time i purchased my Bolt I did not opt for the Titan card. I am kicking myself for it now. My question is, which EVGA Titan will fit into the Bolt? i am looking at this one EVGA 06G-P4-2791-KR GeForce GTX TITAN SuperClocked.

Bron.

They have the regular Titan and the Superclocked on listed as an upgrade. If i have to get the regular one then i will. Just want a little more power. I still say the Bolt is a sweet little machine.

Yeah i have the 680 right now. Thanks for the input.

bron

Oh, it should probably go without mentioning, but I'd rather not assume.  Obviously don't buy the hydro copper Titan as that is a card with a liquid cooling water block on it... so it'll be useless in your bolt.

While, yes you are right Ariktu. The R9 290X will be released on October 15th, it is suppose to be a titan killer.  But don't expect nVidia to drop prices.  They haven't in the past, and there is a 99% chance they won't this time either.  Rumor in the green world is nvidia is planning on releasing possibly a Titan Ultra and a GTX 790 at the end of the year, with the release of the GTX 800 series during the first quarter of 2014.

But even with these, the prices of the GTX titan won't fall much if any at all, at least not until next year.  Look at the GTX 690.  It's still extremely expensive.

At this point and time, unless you want to make the switch to the R9 290X which is rumored to be around $600.  There is no real point in waiting to buy.  If you play the way to buy for the next best thing, you'll always be waiting as next gen cards are always right around the corner.

Not the mention 20nm mass production will start in June 2014, which means the maxwell cards aren't far behind... and they are suppose to be killer.

Get my point?

If you want a titan, might as well buy one.  They might go on sale around thanksgiving, but we're still talking a $900-$1000 card for a while.  Regardless of what AMD does.


(Of course I could be wrong. I don't know this all for 100%.  Just going on how they've done things in the past.)

Most of us have no experience or a place to go to get info, so I'd call DS.

I woukd think its simply sticking your fingers in there to unplug the power leads, reach underneath to wiggle free the riser cable that goes from mobo to the card and pull it out.   But, I'm going from various pics.

Let us know how you make out.   

Well I forgot to take pictures but I got it in. This is how I did it.
1. Remove case.
2. Remove screws holding video card in.
3. remove screws holding power supply in.
4. Inside the case there are 2 screws holding the mounting bracket for the power supply. remove them.
5. remove the fan that blows air into the power supply.
6. there is a screw behind this that holds the video card in place. remove it.
7. remove the pci express ribbon from the motherboard.
8. card slides out of the side of the case.
9. reversed all these steps to install new card.

the biggest issue I had was all the power cables. as this is such a tight fit they were hard to maneuver around when I was installing the power supply back in.

bron

Thanks. It was fun and i would do it again if needed. After I really started looking at how everything is laid out i started to see what went were.

bron

Yeah a video would have been great. A lot of what i did was trial and error. I Thought i had it ready to pull out but found a screw hiding behind the fan that blows air into the power supply. It is there to give the card more stability in the case.

bron

Yeah that would have been helpful. I asked Tech Support for something like this and got a well you need to call in and we can walk you through it response. >< OH well at least I know what to do now. :)
bron