Graphics Card

[blackellis]

Hi all

I have a shuttle PC from Aria and was wondering what would be the best graphics card I could install?

Currently I am using the on-board NVIDIA GeForce4 MX GPU and really need to upgrade it due to the latest games that have come out.

Not sure if the latest cards would cause overheating or not. Any advice would be great.

Thx

[Mighty_Jah]

Not sure I can help you on this mate, I havent got much experience of shuttles, personally I wouldnt think of adding a top end GFX card to a shuttle system as you mention due to heat issues, the way I look at shuttles is they were designed to sit under your nice TV system and act as a multimedia centre, for DVD/MP3 type activities...

Im just trying to imagine my Geforce in a shuttle for a lengthy spree on BF2...confined in probably just enough space to fit it...!

Im hoping someones gonna post a nice success story contrary to my inexperienced view...!

Id certainly like to know the facts...shuttle wise....!

Sorry I cant be of more help...

Welcome to the forum mate...!

Regards Mighty... :wink:

[nft99]

Tell us which shuttle you have? and we can suggest a few cards?

Most important of all whats your budget :)

[blackellis]

The shuttle I have is an Arianet XPC - bought in Nov 2003 :(

Has 1GB Memory and 2.4GHz AMD

Budget is not an issue - If I can spend less for a good card it would be a bonus but if it will cost a bit then so be it

:)

[nft99]

Do you have the shuttle number SK43 / SN56 ??

Am going to guess its an agp slot

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Category=15&SubCat=&Name=&Page=1&SortBy=2

With your current cpu + memory something along the lines of x1600 or the 7600 would be ok there are more expensive cards but not sure they would fit in a shuttle :(

[Belso]

[quote:26b885c0a1=\"blackellis\"]The shuttle I have is an Arianet XPC - bought in Nov 2003 :(

Has 1GB Memory and 2.4GHz AMD

Budget is not an issue - If I can spend less for a good card it would be a bonus but if it will cost a bit then so be it

:)[/quote:26b885c0a1]

Any idea on the motherboard model?

If you dont know it then download a program called Belarc and run it.

It will tell you.
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I have quite a few shuttles lying around the office here, and use them when i install a security camera system.

And heat for me has never really been a huge problem.

Its the space which could, most cards will fit the shuttle perfectly, but some are too big and will not fit underneath the Hard Drive & Floppy drives.

So be careful. :D

[blackellis]

Hi

Finally got the details:

Motherboard:

Board: Shuttle Inc FN41
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 08/25/2003

It also has the following BUS adaptors (not sure if it helps or not):

Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (2x)

[nft99]

this the one u have?

http://eu.shuttle.com/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-546/169_read-2804/

the support list on the shuttle site only seems to have old cards on :(

http://global.shuttle.com/Support/SupportList.asp?Item=SN41G2&ver=SN41G2%20(FN41V1.X,V2.X

[blackellis]

Certainly looks like the one I have - wish I could find my paperwork :x

Looks like my options are limited then

[jarvo]

Heat shouldnt be a problem, if the pci slot next to the agp is free you could get a Nvidia 7800GS with a dual slot cooler.
These expell the air out of the case.

or get a artic cooler after market cooler, which does the same.