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On Friday 09 Aug 2002 9:37 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
> On Friday 09 August 2002 06:00 am, Alastair Scott wrote:
> <snip>
> Please ignore my previous reply.
>
> I pasted something in the wrong box and hit send without looking at it.
>
> What I wanted to reply to you was the only way I've ever found to get an
> answre to this exact question (it has come up before for me) was to open
> the bleedin' boxes and measure them. Even that was no help in one specific
> case since the lay-out of the components on the PCB cause the card not to
> seat in the slot correctly. The only "low profile" cards I know of for sure
> are the Matrox and older Vantas.
>
> Would an e-mail to NVidia and ATI be useful?
On further investigation the whole issue is difficult, mainly because of the
problem you note but also because there's not even standard terminology
('half-height', 'low-profile' and various other expressions are used).
There are a _lot_ of groups.google.com posts on this issue, but almost no
answers, which is strange given that Dell and Gateway, among others, sell
machines with compact cases.
Then, from ancestral memories of HCI work I did some time ago, I had a
brainwave - ask a computer shop in the City of London. Trading floors are
jammed with IT equipment and have all sorts of space-saving paraphernalia
(small cases, flat panels) so are bound to specialise, or at least know of,
compatible equipment.
To try next week, as well as contacting ATi and nVidia direct.
(The fallback is the G550, but £100 to add a graphics card to a PC 'free as in
beer' which is usable, if not brilliant, as it is is a bit much ...).
Alastair
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Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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