[ILUG] [john@antefacto.com: question about the OptiplexGX150 series]

[John P . Looney]

 Just to keep you amused - and warned about buying Dell. At the moment, we
are trying to work out the logistics of cutting holes in the cases, so the
cards fit.

 Though, anyone that knows someone in Dell that could help me here, I'd be
dead impressed. Even to talk me through.

Kate

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From: "John P . Looney" <john at antefacto.com>
To: support at dell.ie
Subject: question about the OptiplexGX150 series
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:00:41 +0000
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 Hi, 

    Our company bought a pair of GX150s from you a few weeks back, and we
are reasonably happy with them. However, when we opened them, we noticed
that the advertised AGP slot is not on a riser board, so it's possible
that we won't be able to put a decent 3D video card in them.

 What is the story with this ? Do our eyes deceive us, or could the Dell
engineers not read the AGP 2.0 spec [0] that clearly states that there
should be 144.7mm of clearance between the motherboard and the top of the
AGP card ? Could you recommend a source for such lilliputian cards that
could fit in such dimunitive cases as the GX150 seems to have.

John

[0] http://developer.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm

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