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Fitting Graphics Card Into My PC

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chevelless101   09-07-2008 at 10:14:51 PM

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.

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Anonymous   09-07-2008 at 10:38:34 PM
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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

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chevelless101   09-07-2008 at 10:45:46 PM
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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.

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dirtmountain   09-07-2008 at 10:52:35 PM
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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 [...] ct=3752852


Message edited by dirtmountain on 09-07-2008 at 10:55:48 PM
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chevelless101   09-07-2008 at 11:05:16 PM
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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

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dirtmountain   09-07-2008 at 11:49:41 PM
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Take the side cover off then.

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