Will the Red Devil Rx 480 8gb fit in the HP Z600 Workstation case?

[ItsPotter]

Hi, I have an old Z600 laying around and want to buy a RX 480 for it. I can get the Red Devil model locally for super cheap ($75) but I'm not sure it will fit as its almost 5" wide.( not including the needed PCI Power connector adding to the total width) What do you think, should I buy or hold out to find one of the smaller models?

[old_geekster]

@ItsPotter , welcome to the forum.

If the information that I have found on your workstation is correct, it was released in 2010.  Therefore, I don't believe that the RX 480 will work.  The newer cards require UEFI in the motherboard instead of a standard/Legacy BIOS.  HP didn't begin using UEFI until mid-October, 2012.  The BIOS can't be upgrade to UEFI.  The last cards not to require UEFI were the GTX 660/670 series.

The best way to know if a card will fit is, measure from the Back I/O ports to the front of the case.  Then, compare those measurements to the ones for the card.

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[dNA747]

The MSI R480, 8GB fits into pci e, but due to its size, does not allow the HP Z600 side panel to close.

I fitted it using a 2 sata to 8 pin adapter, meaning that it draws 75 ( Watts from pci e) +2x45 Watts (from sata port) which totals 160 Watts, and works very well under Microsoft Windows 10 Pro.