Will my motherboard support dual slot/dual width cards?

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familychan1

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I'm planning to upgrade my integrated graphics into a gtx 720 but it is a dual slot card. The capacitors at the left look like they are in the way. Is it a problem? Thanks for helping.

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13thmonkey
you'll be fine, it'll take up the 2 left most case slots/grills. The case is the constraint, but providing you have two spare slots/grills next to each (and aligned with the PCI-E interface) you'll be OK.

However the 720 would not really be an upgrade.
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familychan1

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Is it because my pcie x16 slot lacks space for a dual slot gpu?
 
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The problem is that both the case (and having had another look) the motherboard are not designed for a dual-slot graphics card.
You don't have enough rear case slots and even if you put the motherboard in a new case, you appear to have an I/O connector rising from the motherboard that would get in the way of a dual-slot graphics card.

There are plenty of single slot GTX 720 cards you could look at. There is also the new more powerful RX 460 for example...

http://techreport.com/news/31028/xfx-rx-460-core-slims-down-to-a-single-slot



 
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you'll be fine, it'll take up the 2 left most case slots/grills. The case is the constraint, but providing you have two spare slots/grills next to each (and aligned with the PCI-E interface) you'll be OK.

However the 720 would not really be an upgrade.
 
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