Help/Suggestions for Half Height dual VGA (solved)

PrincessFrosty

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I have a bunch of new slim desktop PCs at work, they use the half height PCI-E brackets so regular sized video cards do not fit.

I'm looking to give a few of my users dual monitors, we only have basic VGA capable (D-SUB) screens which means I need a dual VGA capable half height video card, it can be VGA + DVI-I (I can use a converter from DVI-I to VGA), it just cannot be DVI-D or HDMI.

Other than that it just needs to be as cheap as possible.

I've seen some such as the G210 from Nvidia http://www.ebuyer.com/252476-asus-g...-profile-graphics-en210-silent-di-1gd3-v2-lp- but it seems like this card can only use a half height bracket if it's DVI+HDMI only, so that won't work.

Has anyone seen any cards like this before, if so any suggestions? I don't think I can use the onboard VGA + 1 port from an addon card I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work.

*edit*

Oh and it can be dual slot, thanks.
 
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NTMBK

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That card you mention there should be fine, actually. The card comes with two half height brackets:

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This is why the VGA connector is on a ribbon cable. You can put both half height brackets in the PC, with the VGA port mounted on the second bracket.

EDIT: Another image to demonstrate what I mean, using a different graphics card:

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PrincessFrosty

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Ah right, yes I literally just realized this when looking at the bracket options for it on the site, I was sitting there wondering why there was a single VGA bracket, I was like..."how does that work if that's where the HDMI port is?!?!" then about 12 seconds later it clicked.

Sorry for wasting peoples time, mod can delete the thread if you like.

Thanks NTMBK, much appreciated advice.