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Low profile low height card needed

nuzik

nuzik

nuzik

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Hi guys I. Looking for a low profile got but the pub board has to be about 5cm case is only 6.8. Needs to have hdmi as well

I understand that the low profile bracket may be a little big but I will mod that I can mod a board though! So does anyone know of anything?
 
nuzik said:
Hi guys I. Looking for a low profile got but the pub board has to be about 5cm case is only 6.8. Needs to have hdmi as well

I understand that the low profile bracket may be a little big but I will mod that I can mod a board though! So does anyone know of anything?
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Are you talking about the back plate bracket? you want a GPU with a low profile back plate bracket or a low profile GPU so you can modify the bracket if its to big?

Is this a home made case or a standard retail mini case?
 
I think nvidia used to do small one. Understand it's designed for inboard but I really wanted a small gpu as well.
 
humbug said:
Crikey that's a small case, its only 68mm high, the smallest GPU I can find is 94mm high (the one that Incrauze posted)

Your not going to find a discrete GPU that will fit in that case, that case is not designed for it, its designed for on chip / on motherboard GFX.
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No, wait a minute, my head is somewhere else....

I think the 94mm measurement includes the bracket, the brackets are almost always detachable, so if you take it off and disconnect the D-SUB plug your left with the height of the GPU its self, which looks like it might just be about 5cm.

but that's a wild guess, its a risk, and your also not going to be able to support it in the case, and I don't know what the I.O plate would or would not allow.

looks like a bit of messing about.

Unless you can find one with a mini bracket, I know in days gone they used to do them, it seems the unnecessary D-SUB is in the way.
 
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nuzik said:
That's what I thought. I may need a different psu thought looks like this needs a 300w
The case is only 60w....
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That GPU will never need a 300w PSU :eek: its only a baby.

But, 60w really isn't much good for anything. and it may not run any discrete GPU.
 
Have to agree, just checked the website and a review for that case, there's no cut outs on the back for any expansion slots and the PSU looks too close to cut any. It looks like that case is going to be limited to on-board video on the MiniITX motherboard only.
 
I could mod the back but the psu is the issue. So a no go on the graphics card?
Better off getting a better CPU? Been looking at the g530 has onboard
 
nuzik said:
I could mod the back but the psu is the issue. So a no go on the graphics card?
Better off getting a better CPU? Been looking at the g530 has onboard
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Yes, i think that's the sort of thing this case is designed for.
 
Yeah it's only a small streamer for the house. My first so keeping it cheap and nasty. But ideally thought it would be better with a GPU but alas.
 
I've currently got a G530 running my HTPC which runs a 1080p display using the onboard, 5 TV tuners under Windows Media Centre, streams to 3 extenders (Linksys DMA2100, DMA2200 and an Xbox360), and is my family's only source of TV these days so is on pretty much 24/7. Copes so well that I actually retired the 6450 I had in it because I couldn't notice any different when watching TV/HDTV/DVD/Blu-ray and this saved me almost 10W under normal use. :)
 
nuzik said:
You running mATX or mitx?
And what operating system? I was looking at Ubuntu xbmc
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I'm running a mATX setup:
GA-Z77M-D3H
G620
Blackgold BGT-3650 (4 x DVB-T/T2 tuners)
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1700 (in theory the Blackgold can do the same job, but I just found this bit too unreliable to replace the Hauppauge)
Asus Xonar D2 running T7900 speakers
8GB DDR3 (2x4GB)
1TB WD "green" drive
2TB Samsung 5400rpm drive
40GB Intel X-25M SSD
LG DVD/BR/HD-DVD drive
Antec Fusion case with standard 430W PSU and built in VFD
Windows 7 - runs Windows Media Centre only via a Logitech Harmony remote, the keyboard/mouse is only ever attached for maintenance.

This little lot runs at 60-66W during normal use/playback, peaking to 85W at times (startup, shutdown, etc). I have wondered about mITX before but can't justify the expense as I already have the above. If I was building from scratch then I'd probably go mITX, lose the soundcard, go for a single 3 or 4TB drive and try to find DVB-T/T2 USB tuners. I would go for Ubuntu for a new build, but I've already got the wife and kids happy with WMC, and don't fancy the hassle of retraining them! :D
 
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