Low-Profile Graphics Cards?

thebrix asks: "I've acquired a Dell OptiPlex GX150. It's a pleasant machine to use - small, quiet and uses only 145 watts at full tilt with my flat panel - but its Achilles heel is the feeble i815 on-board graphics which steals RAM from main memory and plasters black bars onto my KDE desktop at inconvenient moments. There's a 4xAGP slot, but it's low-profile because of the small chassis and finding a low-profile graphics card is proving difficult because, invariably, manufacturers are more interested in listing whizzo features than how big the card is. So far, the Matrox G550 Dual DVI is the only card I've come across which definitely fits. Does anyone know of others?"

Comments

Try the Asus V7100 Pro

[Mifflesticks]

Check out http://navasgrp.home.att.net/tech/low_profile_vide o.htm

He says that the Asus V7100 Pro (http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/agpv7100pro/overview.h tm) will work (he has even more stringent requirements than you, it seems)

Stick with the G550

[brejc8]

I say stick with the G550. I have one in the office and its very vice with two screens.
By the way The VGA/DVI version is low profile too.

Had a similar problem with an i810 card

[Dave114]

Someone else discovered that adding Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "Yes" to your video card config in xf86 v.4 would solve that problem. Maybe it'll also solve your i815 problem.