A:AnswerI personally have no idea at all. I was luckily able to secure this exact GPU for 579.99$ before the price jump. Maybe this was due to MSI themselves raising the MSRP, which in turn led Best Buy to make the additional changes. Before this was a great bang for buck deal but now its quite over priced.
A:AnswerOn corsair's website it says the maximum GPU length for the case is 300 mm. This GPU is huge. MSI's website says it's 323 mm. So based off of this data I would answer no. I will say though it barely fits in my old NZXT s340.