Looking for GFX Card for SB81P

Raelthorne · 26 Jan 2007 at 01:19

I'm not ready to build a new machine so I was thinking of upgrading my Shuttle. I currently have a Sapphire 256mb X800XL card and I was thinking of getting an X1950 pro card.

I was wondering would the Sapphire X1950 fit in my shuttle and more importantly would it run okay on a 300W power supply?

Ideally I'd be looking for a single slot cooler, is this okay or can you make any other recommendations?

Thanks,

Ken

Reality Bites · 26 Jan 2007 at 08:04

i was looking for options on a single slot GPU recently. It seem the pro you mentioned is about the only one which fits the bill.

OCUK had one on offer this week for alittle over £100.

Raelthorne · 27 Jan 2007 at 01:19

Would the 300W psu in the shuttle be capable of running the 512mb single slot Sapphire X1950 Pro?

Also, would there be a big performance improvement from my X800XL?

WoZZeR · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:09

The PSU should hack it IMHO, my Shuttle has a 400W PS and is OK with 2 1950XTX's and 2 SATA Drives.

Dunno about performance, when I had just 1 1950 in mine it would run Oblivion maxed out detail wise at 1280x1024 though I kept AA quite low.

Hope that helps.