Best low-profile video card?

WHat is the best one on the market that will work on a 300 watt psu and a low profile motherboard setting?

3 possiable PSUs -
Delta 300 Watt Power Supply
300-Watt Power Supply SATA 20-Pin Non-PFC - HIPRO
BESTEC 300 Watt Power Supply
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/ [...] 4cl2.shtml

It takes a 6 pin PCIe connector, an adapter is furnished with the card, you'll need to connect it to 2- 4pin molex. The 9600GT 512GB uses 61watts of power at load. You'll want to keep an eye on your temperatures, Gateway along with other prebuilt systems have pretty poor cooling.
http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
Run this with your stock system at load, then again after you install the new card to check temps. The 300w PSU is a little on the low side, but should work, of the 3 possible PSUs Delta is the best imo.

Meaning could I leave one of the two dangling?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI [...] otohosting

Gateway doesn't list the important specs for that PSU, so it's hard to say if it's got enough 12V power for that card.

Is there a label on the PSU that lists output for the rails? Otherwise maybe Gateway can tell you the +12V output.

It is +12v/15A +12V/.08A as output
+5V/30A +5VSB/2AQ
+3.3V/28A

Ouch - A single 15A 12V rail is IMO way too little for the 9600GT. You'll need to either find a new PSU for that machine or look for a different card that doesn't require an additional power cable. Watch out for crippled cards with a 64-bit memory interface.

Nowhere near the 9600GT, but this isn't too bad a low profile card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102754

Edit: The 15A still scares me for the above card too. How many drives are in your system?
I wonder if that's a proprietary PSU? Anyone know?

I was thinking of getting this psu:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182006

but it still might not be enough? Also I am not very good at pc upgrading and dont want to pay 40 dollars for bestbuy to do it. I have a hard time even disconnecting the 4 pin floppy/molex connector (inf act I havent been able to do it yet since I have no finger nails). And I wouldnt know where to flip the black switch (the o or the line nor which part of the red voltage thing would I have to set the voltage to):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Show [...] r%20Supply

http://support.gateway.com/s/POWER [...] 4sp3.shtml

but I hear not all power supplies work with all motherboards. The motherboard might be rela cheap as well for this budget computer.

does this guy have a similar gpu he was reocmmended that 9500 gt for (also a gateway but a bit better versions)?

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ality-watt

Greetings,

I’m a bit new to this gaming graphics stuff so please forgive my stupidity.
I am alas the owner of a Dell C521…yes I know. I didn’t twig it was a low profile machine when I bought it….yes I know silly me!

Anyway this Galaxy 9600GT sounds like just the job to drag my machine up to scratch. Who’s a good UK supplier of such and do you have a part number?
Also I’ve read that one needs a few other bits and bobs such as a molex to 6 pin PCI e adapter….anything else I might have missed other than the low profile mounting bracket? Your help is appreciated.

Many thanks

Piran

Also forgot to mention that my monitors are standard dell 19” flat screens which would be 1280 X 1024 pixels.

Cheers

Piran

Everywhere Ive been reading on forums people say the 9500 gt plays msot if not all games at pretty good resolutions and settings, and it only draws 50 watts and runs on msot 300 (if not less) watt psus. I am gonna go this route as Ive never put in new power supplies before nor do I want to learn how to necessairly right now.

The 9500GT is for all purposes a 8600GT that's been rebadged. Here's a link to a hierarchy chart that shows relative positions of graphic cards.
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 086-7.html
As you can see the 9500GT DDR2 is about 7 tiers below the 9600GT DDR3 which only runs about $20 more after rebate. The 9500GT does have very low power requirements though (about 30 watts) and would run fine on the stock Dell unit. For performance the 9600GT and a new power supply would be a better option, if you can make do with the 9500GT (or the HD3650 DDR3) then it's not a bad answer. piran you may want to look at the HD4550 for running 2 monitors.

And dirtmountain, I dont know how accurate the hierarchy is because the low profile version of both of those cards are basically enttire different cards and should have seperate measurments. I mean most of those cards come in ddr3 for the regular version and ddr2 for low profile.

I bought the 9500 gt but according to one review I recently found of a regular 9500 gt whjich has similar if not the same requierments:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130395

"The box says that the card requires a power supply with a 12V rail that makes 18A. My Antec 550 Neo runs it easily."

will this hamper my performance? I am not using more than 220 watts already on my system so I have a lot of room and this card only utilizes 50 watts, but at the same time I only have one 12V 15A rail.