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Low profile gaming card?

daz.rathbone

daz.rathbone

daz.rathbone

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I'm possibly getting a little HP DC7800 sff box in the next few days, and am looking for a low-profile card that will play CoD:WaW and a few other bits.

I realise there are some low profile 9600GTs about which seem to be about the best, but not sure if the power requirements will be too much. Don't know that much about the DC7800, but I gather it's got a fairly weak PSU in it, so prob no PCI-E power adapter.

Anything else around which would do a reasonable job gaming on there? Will be going for 1920x1200 so obviously all the settings and candy will have to be turned down. I think rest of the specs on it are e6550, 2gb, 160gb hdd, so not a bad little sff unit if I can get the gfx sorted.

Cheers
 
4550 is your best bet unless you can get a 9600GT from god knows where, and if your PSU can take it.

At 1920x1200 though the 4550 wont be handle it at all. My brother has the same card along with a E6600 and 2GB of ram, games are pretty much unplayable at 1280x1024, but most run really well at 800x600, it deffinately isnt a card that will allow for high resolutions. Crysis runs nicely on Medium at 800x600 :).
 
Think the OP specifically needs a low-profile card (one thats half the height of a normal card), some cases (mainly HTPC's i think) only allow them to fit in.
 
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