Fitting Graphics Card Into My PC

[chevelless101]

My computer is a a6554f HP and it has one PCI-E slot. However when i tryed to fit my friends old video card from the back in, the slot was too short. The fan on top would hit and even if i took that off, the plug area itself was about 3/4 of an inch tall. I measured the slot height on the computer and it was only 1/2 an inch tall... Right above the slot is a divider between the PCI-E slot and another slot. Are the newer video cards like the EVGA 9800 GT thinner than older ones? Does anyone know what I can do to make them fit? Why the hell would HP make a slot so damn thin?

Anyways.. please respond.

 

[Guest]

i think thats one of those small HP desktops, from that modle number if thats the case u need a small form factor PCI-E card

 

[chevelless101]

its a normal size case, just the expansion slots on the back are so thin, only 1/2 an inch tall. Only thing i can think of is knock out the metal bar seperating the 2 slots and use 2 slots.

 

[dirtmountain]

ummm whoa. That should be a pretty standard G33 motherboard, there's no reason (from looking at specs and photos and experience) that a standard PCIex16 graphic card wouldn't fit right in. Do you have an AGP card ? Are you trying to put it in the PCIex slot ? PC1 slot?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01324212&lc=en&dlc=fr&cc=be&lang=fr&product=3752852

 

[chevelless101]

Its the only slot available since the top slot is taken by somthing already. The only expasion slot is the PCI-E Slot . The card would fit into the slot its just i cant fit the card thru the back of the computer since it is only 1/2 an inch tall opening. The videocard i tryed to fit in was 3/4 inch.

Like i said between the 2 back openings there is a thin metal bar, maybe I could hit that out? lol. then there would be a little space above the videocard but meh at least itd fit

 

[dirtmountain]

Take the side cover off then.