best video card w/ half height PCI-E

[Lord Banshee]

Well i have some parts lieing around( 939 venice 3000+, 1GB RAM, 60GB HD) and i was thinking about using it with a HTPC.

I was looking at the Antec Minute II (which is very small) and it is sort-of what i am looking for, but i might wnat to play some games on it one day (not HD and not FPS lol) so i was wondering what half-height PCI-E cards will run most games(not FEAR lol) today at max quality with 800x600 or 1024x768 res, 4x AA would be nice too.

any ideas..

I was thinking about getting the ASUS nfroce4 w/6150 for now but that video sucks at gameing so woul have to upgrade.

 

[ElFenix]

6600 is faster than 7300

comments suggest you should point a fan at it, though.

honestly, unless you want the computer to sit in the stereo stack i'd look at an x-qpack so you can put standard equipment in it

 

[imported_killuminati]

this may not be small as the above Aopen 6600 , but its is slient and 12 pixelpipes , better then 6600GT according to nVIDIA Own results
XFX PV-T73P-UDS3 Geforce 7600GS ;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150146

Btw : for HTPC , the Geforce 7 Series , specially this one has
High-Definition H.264, MPEG-2 and WMV Hardware Acceleration2

and Legit got a review here :
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/318/1/?www.dailytech.com


Peace & ciao !!!