Need a low profile card for friend

Jandraelune · September 3, 2015

Here's the problem. He is working off a prebuilt dell with the motherboard basicly upside down from standard and thus any card that takes two slots will not fit, but the slot is a pcie16x 2.0 . He has a radeon 5450 atm...plunty of cards will fit the slot, but not enough space for anything of quality. I have a card sitting around but its a duel slot card so its a no go.

Don't want to get into the costs of a full new system which it would take to fit a duel slot card.

But if anyone knows of a non-techie way to shoehorn a duel slot into it for someone that has no experience doing it them self. I would do the work but he lives on west coast us and I on east coast.

Rampiks · September 3, 2015

you can just replace the case

samcool55 · September 3, 2015

PCI-E riser and some ghetto modding and problem solved.

with the PCI-E riser you can put the graphics card where you want.

Or if you want to go full ghetto and cheap, just take it all out of the case and put it in a box!

Jandraelune · September 3, 2015

The case is't the issue. The mobo is literally upside down. The pcie slot is still at top but the mobo instead of being on the right hand side is on the left hand side...so that in its self cancels the new case option with out getting a new mobo as well.

PCI riser for the same reason is out. Because all standard hardware is made for mobos being on the right hand side.

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Did some looking around and its a modified btx mobo.