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November 2nd, 2005, 09:45 AM
I've bought a 2nd-hand DELL PC from work. A 1.7GHz P4 fr £25 seemed pretty good!
But while it has an AGP slot, the case is small (it's a DELL workstation, GX240 I think and it looks like the metal bit on the back of the card is too long:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000TNZEY.02.TZZZZZZZ
Now many graphics cards are very small these days so the card itself would fit, it only the metal bit were shorter.
Is this a standard thing I might look for, or do I need to carefully select a small AGP graphics card and VERY carefully trim the metal strip? Because the 16Mb ATI card degrades the system a lot from having a 5200 or something nicer in there...
But while it has an AGP slot, the case is small (it's a DELL workstation, GX240 I think and it looks like the metal bit on the back of the card is too long:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000TNZEY.02.TZZZZZZZ
Now many graphics cards are very small these days so the card itself would fit, it only the metal bit were shorter.
Is this a standard thing I might look for, or do I need to carefully select a small AGP graphics card and VERY carefully trim the metal strip? Because the 16Mb ATI card degrades the system a lot from having a 5200 or something nicer in there...