What's the best low profile AGP card I can get?

[firestorm225]

My dad brought a computer from a work, a Compaq Evo Small Form Factor pc. While it has a 2.4ghz 533 FSB P4 and 512mb PC2700 ram, it's severly crippled by the Intel Extreme graphics card. I want to put in a new video card, though it only supports low profile (reduced bracket sized AGP cards). I was checking out Newegg, and found these two:

GeForce4 MX 440
Radeon 9200

Unfortunatly, while the GeForce4 was tagged as being Low-Profile, the Radeon 9200 wasn't. I just checked the 9200 pictures and saw that the accessories included a small bracket. So I can't just search low profile and find all the low profile video cards.

So does anyone know what video cards come with the small bracket? Any better ones that the ones I found?

 

[ragu]

Originally posted by: firestorm225

So does anyone know what video cards come with the small bracket? Any better ones that the ones I found?

I'm suffering from the same predicament as you and have been searching the web high and low. The solution suggested by most is to mount a regular sized card sideways via an 8x angle bracket which would involve cutting a hole for your video card in the back of your computer and somehow securing it to the frame securely. The other option I've seen is as you've mentioned using the small form mounting bracket although i'm not really sure how this would work as it seems that the cards themselves are too tall for the case even if the low profile bracket is the proper size but thats just from me giving the pictures posted on the web a quick onceover. The best card I found via google was a radeon 9600 low profile although it only seems to be released in europe (or at least only covered by european sites) so I'm not sure how that works. I'm looking into other options and will post here if I find anything out.

 

[ericboo]

Check out www.sudian.com forums as many people have posted about what you are looking for.