EVGA DG-77 Review

The Build

The DG-77 comes with quite a few accessories.  Along with the usual bag of screws and cable ties you also get a pack of self adhesive EVGA logo button stickers in white.  These are so that should you choose to, you can remove the black ones that come attached to the various thumb bolts and replace them with white ones.  There’s also a bracket that enables you to orientate your GPU vertically within the case.

  

 

Of course the vertical riser bracket wouldn’t be much use without a ribbon cable would it?  Fortunately EVGA have this covered.

  

 

You also get a selection of window stickers to affix to the glass sections, should you so desire.

  

 

 

Building into the DG-77 takes very little effort, and although not as slick as rubber grommeted management holes, the single slot method adopted by EVGA is much much easier.

  

 

Having positioned the GPU in the normal way, we thought we’d also show it in its vertical orientation.  The only real issue with this, and that applies to all cases where the GPU can be vertically orientated, is that the fan can often be very close to the side panel, so depending on how your card cools, you may experience thermal issues in heavy use.  It does of course also make water cooling the GPU that little bit more tricky.

  

 

 

Things are really tidy round the back, and although this is a limited scope build, we’re confident that there’s enough room, although you may need to keep thinks in check if you’re putting a pair of 3.52 drives back here, as they’ll take up quite a bit of room in that forward section.

  

 

The DG-77 accepts the Havik 120 with ease, and will take all but the very largest tower air coolers on the market.

  

 

 

The large free space area at the front of the case means that it will accept pretty much any 360mm rad and fan combination you care to throw at it, along with big fat 280s to boot.  

  

 

 

Of course, the thicker you go with the rad, the less room you’ve got for your GPU, but to be honest, there’s plenty to play with.  Although in theory, you can get rads up in the roof, there’s not a lot of room to play with, and the off-set isn’t great.  Take a look at how close the 120mm fan is to the motherboard in the image below and we think you’ll get the idea.