Low Profile \ Standard Graphic Card

bilalmaqsood_4b

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What is difference between low profile and standard graphic card and the second question is my pc is pci express 3.0 but it is low profile case. so can it run a standard graphic card?
 
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Currently, yes that is the best. The GTX 950 has recently been announced, but as of now there are no low profile versions of it as far as I know. Just because that is the best doesn't mean it will work in your system though. Your PC has a PCI-E slot that can only supply a max of 40W, which isn't enough for even the very lowest of current GPUs (The R7 240 from AMD, or the GT 740 from Nvidia.).

The best card that you will be able to run is a GT 730 (The 64-bit version, not the 128-bit) or an HD 6670.

If you have any further questions, please consider starting a new thread (And posting the link below so that I can help you out as well.) since you won't get many answers if you post on old threads.

Chayan4400

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Low profile cards' brackets are much shorter in length, so if your case only supports low profile cards, then you can't install a standard full height graphics card:

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The best you can go is a GTX 750 Ti: Click Here.
 

bilalmaqsood_4b

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now im using Zotac geforce gt 240 1gb DDR3 and there is much free space available to plug a big card then it. so can i run a standard card or not?
 

Chayan4400

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It's not really the length that matters, it is the width, as low profile cards are a little more than half the size of a standard card. Your card seems to have been sold in both a standard and low profile slot height, so I can't say which you have.

What is the case you are using? If we know that then we can say for sure whether it has standard or low profile PCI-E slots.
 

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Is that currently the best option for low-profile video cards, I have a Lenovo M93p 10A9 and would love to put the best of the best in it, was there a better option coming out in the near future that you know of? Thanks!
 

Chayan4400

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Currently, yes that is the best. The GTX 950 has recently been announced, but as of now there are no low profile versions of it as far as I know. Just because that is the best doesn't mean it will work in your system though. Your PC has a PCI-E slot that can only supply a max of 40W, which isn't enough for even the very lowest of current GPUs (The R7 240 from AMD, or the GT 740 from Nvidia.).

The best card that you will be able to run is a GT 730 (The 64-bit version, not the 128-bit) or an HD 6670.

If you have any further questions, please consider starting a new thread (And posting the link below so that I can help you out as well.) since you won't get many answers if you post on old threads.
 
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