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    Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    As the title says, the old man has gone and bought COD4 without doing his homework.

    He doesn't want a new PC, but the current HP machine he's using only has two PCI slots and one PCI-E x1.

    COD4 requires;

    Min: Nvidia GeForce 6600 (128 MB) or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB)
    Recommended: Nvidia GeForce 7800 or ATI Radeon X1800

    Any suggestions?

    EDIT: - This is Scan's only PCI card - doesn't look too good - it'll probably manage on low settings
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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    buy a pci-e graphics card and put it in?

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Thanks for playing, but which slot would I put the PCI-E GPU in?

    Perhaps you'd like to Google "PCI-e x1"
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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Sounds like another job for the
    PCIe X1 to X16 converter board.

    Only thing is, if they didn't put a graphics card slot on the motherboard then I guess that was to cost reduce the power supply down to something like 200W so please check what the PSU can cope with.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    Sounds like another job for the
    PCIe X1 to X16 converter board.

    Only thing is, if they didn't put a graphics card slot on the motherboard then I guess that was to cost reduce the power supply down to something like 200W so please check what the PSU can cope with.
    do they actually work those cards?

    since i never understood the point off short x1 slots
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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Not actually tried one, but they make sense.

    If an 9800GT with 128 shaders works fine on a x8 slot (which they seem to looking at SLI boards with a pair of x8 sockets), then 16 shaders should work fine on a x1 slot. Electrically, the x1 to x16 adapters make sense.

    The x1 sockets are all about low cost, and are still faster than the old 32 bit 33MHz PCI cards.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    Thanks for playing, but which slot would I put the PCI-E GPU in?

    Perhaps you'd like to Google "PCI-e x1"
    Just dremmel out the rest of the connector.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    Sounds like another job for the
    PCIe X1 to X16 converter board.

    Only thing is, if they didn't put a graphics card slot on the motherboard then I guess that was to cost reduce the power supply down to something like 200W so please check what the PSU can cope with.
    Top man, thanks - I've just bought one of those, ~£5 can't be bad - I already have my spare 500w PSU and 7600GT, so once the board arrives, we'll see how it goes.

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Just dremmel out the rest of the connector.
    I had considered that but didn't want to accidentally FUBAR anything. I'd read that you can tape off the pins on most cards to force them into x1, x4, x8 modes so assumed it would worth t'other way round.
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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    I had considered that but didn't want to accidentally FUBAR anything. I'd read that you can tape off the pins on most cards to force them into x1, x4, x8 modes so assumed it would worth t'other way round.
    Or dremmel off the pins on the card so it fits in the slot.

    But if you can use the adaptor then that's easiest.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    i doubt you will be able to secure the card using the bracket, may as well return cod4 until he is prepared to buy a new pc

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Cut it down to 1x size and it will work fine.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Just drill, saw, file the end of the pci-e slot so it is open at the end is probably easiest. That way if you screw up you wont have a broken graphics card, just a broken pci-e slot that you weren't going to use anyway.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    i just looked at my mobo (check left) and i noticed i got a whole load of components behind the slot, so i cant just make a slit in the slot and then fit the card oh well no extra vid cards for me.

    just out of interest say i got about 2 off those x1 slots does that mean i can xfire or sli cards in them?
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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    i just looked at my mobo (check left) and i noticed i got a whole load of components behind the slot, so i cant just make a slit in the slot and then fit the card oh well no extra vid cards for me.
    Then just cut off the connector on the card rather than the motherboard.

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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    meh, i got enough slots to fit more vid power than i can ever use so thi was just theory
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    Re: Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    Thanks for playing, but which slot would I put the PCI-E GPU in?

    Perhaps you'd like to Google "PCI-e x1"
    You could try searching Hexus for GeForce PCIe x1...

    It wouldn't rock COD4's world, but it should cope on low settings. Your only *real* problem is going to be sourcing one...

    EDIT: Product Googling "Geforce PCIe X1" turns up an 8400 from a number of suppliers as well. Product Googling "Radeon PCIe x1" turns up nothing, unfortunately. NVidia definitely have the win in the reduced-bandwidth graphics card stakes...

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