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Problem Installing new hard drive

Post Date: 2012-01-15
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    Posted: 15 Jan 2012 at 3:36pm
Hi All;
I want to install a 2nd hard drive on my DS system.Mother board is an NVIDA 650i, with 4 sata connectors. One is for the DVD, 2nd is for the current hd and the other 2 are..(drum roll here)....covered by my video card-GTX260+ (boy that sucker is big).. Any thoughts on how to resolve this?. Not sure if a right angle sata cable will work, as video card just about sits on the sats ports..there is a very small space between the vc & the connectors. Thanks for your help.
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Hi ponybear.....There's only one way to find out.        Don't have that mobo,but I'd say it would work. Pull the gpu, connect right angle SATA and re-mount gpu.   Worse case....the gpu doesn't quit seat all the way,but if almost then you should be good unless you move Pc a lot.    
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You'll need to remove the video card to gain access to it. You might need a right angle SATA cable as it may get in the way of the video card. Since you have a GTX 260+ video card, you may be able to move that to a different 16x or even 8x PCI-E slot if you have one available.
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