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Switching in an ATI 4870 Card on my S10

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Hi,
I just ordered my S10 but need to swap out the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 for an ATI 4870 (or something close). 
Does anyone know if:
- The current 650w power supply can hack this (I am also adding another DVD burner and two 750GB hard drives)
- The longer 4870 card  would fit into the S10?
Thanks,
Dave 
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the S10 was designed to handle an nvidia FX 5600 so i wouldn't imagine the radeon 4800 series to be much worse.   i haven't used an S10 personally to know how well it can cool large GPUs.
my best suggestion would be to buy the card from a retailer with a good return policy (tigerdirect.com comes to mind) and try it.   use something like hardware monitor and/or GPU-Z to watch temps on the card.
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