4K pci graphics card not express

daveeem said:

Hello I have a Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 4300 SFF PC Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) 8 gig DDR3 SDRAM 799MHz Intel Core i3-3220. 240 watts PS. i'm using my pci express slot for my SSD. i'm looking for a 4K graphics card, low profile, cheap of course. if you need more info. please ask, thanks,
Dave

Just out of curiosity, what SSD are you using? Is it a native slotted SSD, am m.2 drive in a slot adapter, or something else altogether?

badrobot said:

You will have to put the SSD on one of the SATA ports and the GPU on x16 Pcie slot.

I would expect that to be physically impossible.

badrobot said:

What would be the problem? Is it an M.2 SSD? He didn't specify but that will surely be an issue.

He said that the SSD used the PCI-E slot. (Didn't specify the X16 slot, but apparently he didn't realize that the X1 is also PCI-E.) Also, the Compaq Pro 4300 SFF has no m.2 slot. (It's an oldish system, maybe from 2013, with an H61 chipset.)

It's a little unusual to see a PCI-E (not m.2) SSD in a system of that vintage, but it's far from impossible.

badrobot said:

I think it's a Pcie adapter. I would understand why an adapter is necessary for an old mobo like that. You can get a pcie adapter for different connectors/ports like USB, eSATA, SATA, m.2 SSD, etc.

Could be. I'm using an Intel 750 drive in my primary system, and it's a PCI-E card (not m.2). In my secondary system, I'm using a Plextor m.2 PCI-E card in a slot adapter. (I originally had it in a system with no m.2 socket, but I'm keeping it in the adapter for its better cooling.) May the OP is using one of the other adapters in a SFF system, but that would border on the weird.

PLEXTOR PX-256M8PeY - 238.47 GB.. in the PCI express 16 slot
thanks for the updates, I will keep it ALL in mind.

daveeem said:

PLEXTOR PX-256M8PeY - 238.47 GB.. in the PCI express 16 slot
thanks for the updates, I will keep it ALL in mind.

Unexpected. You really need the PCI-E slot for that SSD. You could use an X4 slot if you had one, but you don't.

The only PCI-E 1X card that I found at Newegg was the same as in the Amazon link. Its HDMI port is 1.4a, so it can do 4k, but at 30 Hz max. I don't know whether the (dual link) DVI port supports that; it can do 2560 X 1600 at 60 Hz.

I don't think you're going to get a tolerable 4k graphics card that doesn't need a PCI-E X16 slot. Low profile doesn't help, either. You're really boxed in with that SFF PC.

yes I understand. why don't you think the ZOTAC GeForce GT 710 1GB DDR3 PCIE x 1 DVIHDMI VGA Low Profile Graphic card will be tolerable 4k graphics? What problems do you think ill have? I used the OuterVision® Power Supply Calculator and it's close. And that's only if everything is running at max. I probably can get a splitter to go from 16x to 2- 8x. Then again, I'm limited in space.. LOL