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yeah I put mine in a phantom reasonably priced very large case comes in white or black. Only complaint is it comes with the mounts and even a filter for a 220mm fan in the side panel that is not included. I wound up grabbing that separately. It is very large though hard to tell with it on the floor of my workshop in that picture.
Took those back when I was putting it together, you'll have to excuse the quality flash on the galaxy S is way stronger than it needs to be.
I have of course upgraded to the 580 and doubled the ram since then.
At any rate performance wise it makes arkham city a thing to behold. dx11 + physx from one card is impressive as well. I'm currently not clocked but while I was stress testing the hardware 4.5ghz was obtainable without too much coaxing.
Of course with the z68 it's also nice if you can get a small ssd and make use of the new caching feature the Intel rapid storage provides.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...s-chipset.html
I went with this board,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157264 in the end mostly for the 8 sata ports. Over the others.
Of course there is the x79 now too, but that would mean a new cpu.