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
Last edited by daveeem; 03 Sep 2018 at 08:48. Reason: pci 1 not pci
It looks like the machine has an x1 slot and an x16 slot. Is there a reason you can't those instead of a PCI slot?
PCI can only support a maximum of 133MB/s of throughput. PCIe 2.0 can support 500MB/s per lane. Uncompressed 8-bit 4K data at 30fps is 3840x2160x30x8 = 250MB/s. So even if a 4K PCI card existed, it would have a hard time pushing 4K video.
ooboy, I DO get confused with these slots,, I looked very closely on the mother board and that white slot does say pci1 !! I guess I need to revise my post or start a new one,, thankss
It's still unclear to me what slots you are currently using and what slots you want to use.
I now see, I thought that the pci in the picture (white slot) would do more because it's bigger. and that little black one is pCIe1 is what I can us for a graphics card? right?
Yes, though I only found one low-profile PCIe x1 card - https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce.../dp/B01E9Z2D60
The GT710 is a low-end GPU so hopefully you won't plan on gaming with this machine.
no gaming. I have a 240 watt PS and this Power Requirement: 300-watt .. do you think it'll work?
The card itself only uses 25W so it's probably ok assuming that your only storage is that one SSD and you don't have a ton of other devices plugged in.
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