Ahh you mean you need a half height card, so it would have just the one connector on it?

XFX GeForce® 9400 GT 512MB DDR2 PCI-E Low Profile / Half Height Direct X 10 Retail Graphics Card(PV-T94G-YA1Z LP) buy at PCUpgrade.co.uk

or

MSI 8600GT 256MB GDDR2 DVI HDMI TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card inc Low Profile / Half Height Bracket Retail(NX8600GT-MTD256E ) buy at PCUpgrade.co.uk

plus one of these:

Low Profile / Half Height Bracket Kit - Incl 2 Brackets For All Low Profile Graphics Cards(ma-bk01-lp1k) buy at PCUpgrade.co.uk

you would lose the top connector that is connected by a ribbon cable, but then that's not exactly a biggy at normal resolutions.

EDIT: That second card comes with a low profile bracket in the box anyway, so well worth a punt I'd say as it shouldn't use too much juice but give you a lot more in the way of GFX.

Edited 18 November, 200817 yr by cheezemonkhai

Your memory is DDR2 Dave.

This lot will be able to help:

Memory upgrades, flash media, and usb storage at Crucial.com

I think this stuff should work fine, but would need to know more about the CPU you have:

CT2KIT25664AA800 - 4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM , DDR2 PC2-6400 from Crucial.com

They have a memory advisor on the site which will show you exactly the right memory type, but I can't find your model number on there.

cheeze.. i dont think the XPS dave has can take a gfx card... it has a ATI thingy on-board (might even be a Intel GMA) and dont think it has a x16 PCI-E slot.

cheeze.. i dont think the XPS dave has can take a gfx card... it has a ATI thingy on-board (might even be a Intel GMA) and dont think it has a x16 PCI-E slot.

No, it has a low profile PCIe 16 card in. An Ati X1300 pro.

Like http://images.us.ciao.com/ius/images/products/normal/199/product-15450199.jpg

No fan or anything, just a heatsink, and a dvi out and s/video out/

Look at the link to the Mobo he has put up.

It has a x16 and a x1

Thanks for confirming Dave,

One at the top of the page should work just fine then

And it goes....

the 8600gt is a decent card... have one in my pc.. plays most stuff well enough unless you go crazy on the rez....

All you really need is a good graphics card. The rest of the PC is OK. It wouldn't even have to be very expensive - a 2nd hand ATI X1950 Pro 256Mb would set you back about £30 Incl. delivery or an 8800GTS 512Mb is about £75 and even 8800GTX's are only £100-ish. From the picture you posted any of those cards should fit and I suspect the PSU would power the X1950 Pro or the 8800GTS, although an 8800GTX might be a bit of a push.

I think the 8800GT/GTS would potentially kill the PSU or have it running at near max, hence the suggestion of the 8600 GT.

Most the punch for a lot less power and as Paul said, it will do most people just fine unless you bang the resolution right up

Most of the cost is in the fact that it needs to be a half height card, and these cost more.

Most of the cost is in the fact that it needs to be a half height card, and these cost more.

I missed the half-height card bit. In that case, sell the whole shebang and get something else. Dells fetch good money on the 'bay.

get a secondary psu just for the gfx card, we've done it and works perfectly

get a secondary psu just for the gfx card, we've done it and works perfectly

I think he's fighting a losing battle for space in that case, and as it appears to be a BTX motherboard and PSU he'll struggle to rehouse it.

How did you get on with this in the end Dave?