Half height cards
Posted:
Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:57 amby him724
Hey um im a gamer and im looking for a graphics card and the ones i need arent half height witch are the only kind i can put in my system. i need to know if there is a way to use these full height cards anyway or if anyone knows of a half height card similar to the ATI radeon 9800 (i doubt it though) thanks
Posted:
Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:40 pmby teststrips
fastest cards I saw in the 1/2 height arena were not extremely fast cards. You could check out this
I also herd mentioned an ATI 9200 1/2 height card, but could not actually find a link or picture.
There are right angle adapters for PCI cards and AGP ones... some even have a ribbon cable so you could mount at any angle, and don't have to worry about getting the EXACT right height. They are quite expensive.
The above connectors will work, but you almost definatly will not be able to use AGP 8X... maybee not even 4X... although 2X will probably not hurt you as bad as you think it will... bus speeds are generally not a problem unless the card is trying to use the system's RAM as additinal video memory.
If you are up to hours of soldiering... check this out.