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05-14-2003, 01:59 AM
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micro tower
I have a micro tower/desktop case for my computer. I want to buy a video card for this and am wondering if smaller cards are sold that will fit in this case. Thank you for your replies.
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05-14-2003, 10:00 AM
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Do you know the model of the motherboard? Does it have an AGP slot? Is this one of those cases that will only accept half height cards? Some system details would help.
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05-14-2003, 11:17 AM
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I don't know much about computers, but a half height card is what I would need. A normal card is too big to fit in the case. I have 3 PCI slots available. I am not sure on the motherboard, but I will find out. Thank you for your help.
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05-15-2003, 08:52 AM
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If this is a name brand computer, how about the model? Do you need a card with a "shortie" backplate? This sounds like one of those.
I just took a quick look at the full listing of PCI video cards at Newegg, there's only one that advertises a "half height PCI bracket" - and that's a $22 S3 Savage 8mb card - and I'd assume that your onboard video is as good or better than one of those. |
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05-15-2003, 04:15 PM
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Yea, I guess I really have nothing I can do with buying a new video card to upgrade. Thank you very much for your help.
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05-15-2003, 10:56 PM
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You gonna give up before you tell us what this computer is?
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05-16-2003, 02:35 AM
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It's a Gateway 300x Pentium 4 2.4G, 256MB RAM, 60G HD w/ a damn micro tower. lol
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05-16-2003, 09:13 AM
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Okay - that has onboard Intel 845G "Extreme Graphics" which performs roughly equivalent to a GeForce 2 MX card - not exactly a hot gamer, but not that bad as onboard video goes. Look around in your bios for a graphics memory cache setting - the 845G boards I've worked with have selections for 512k, 1m, and 8m, set it as high as it goes. Finding a PCI card that has a half height bracket that's better than this onboard graphics may be difficult.
Here's a long thread on another board that may interest you: http://www.tek-tips.com/gpviewthread...ev2/66/lev3/68 I think the bottom line is this - if you are trying to turn this machine into a gamer, it ain't gonna happen. If you are doing graphics work, there are possibilities. |
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