Buying a graphics card

Low-profile video cards

Slimline ATX desktop and tower cases are far too confined to house
standard full-sized PCI or AGP or PCI Express video cards, therefore
video cards that are usually half the full-size height, called low-profile
cards, have to be used.

Proprietary manufacturers such as HP, Compaq, Gateway, and Dell can
use slimline cases. Examples of models that can use them are the
Compaq DeskPro and the Dell Optiplex.

PCI/AGP/PCI Express video cards are made as low-profile cards, and
they are usually not much more expensive than the full-sized version of
the same model, but availability could be a problem, because, firstly, not
all video-card manufacturers make low-profile cards, and, secondly,
when available, they have the same names as their full-sized
counterparts, and, if not purchased at a premium from HP, Compaq, Dell,
etc., would therefore be difficult to locate. Moreover, as you might
expect, low-profile cards are never as powerful as the full-sized models.

The technology provided by the latest video cards cannot currently fit on
to low-profile cards, so instead of running a 256MB ATI Radeon 9800XT
or nVidia FX 5900 card, the user with such a slimline case would only be
able to use relatively under-powered low-profile cards such as a 128MB
ATI Radeon 9200 or an nVidia GeForce FX 5200.

Moral of the story: avoid buying a computer housed in a slimline case.

See the Motherboard page on this site for information on the use of riser
cards to accommodate adapter cards in slimline cases.

Look here for more info.

I’ve found a couple more options:

XFX GeForce 6500 256MB “Low Profile” – £47.00
http://www.komplett.co.uk

Sapphire Radeon X550 256MB “Low Profile” – £49.00
http://www.komplett.co.uk

You’re welcome waring. Those aren’t my words, I copy/pasted the piece.
I personally, know nothing about everything. :wink:

@waring wrote:

My co name is Steve and I’m from Lithuania, but I appriciate all the help I can get, Any ideas about cyber cafe’s in England, not Wales,tried 2 live There once, did not work out., Cheers mate.

Yeah, the Welsh sheep don’t like tourists. Next time try wearing an old raincoat and Wellington boots. They might mistake you for a local.

for running a cyber cafe you will need to get a router , maybe a outer with built in modem (adsl) then you can run more than one computer on the internet at one time .

as for price and charging , some cyber cafe use a card system to log time .

just depends on how you can keep an eye on time management .

very esay to set up, just hard keeping rack of time people are on the net for charging.

or maybe set up a couple of free computers and a free wireless conection in your cafe to pull the punters in ?????up to you

hope this helps

liam wabbit