Installing a new graphics card

saroy94 said:

haha just ate it sorry

Just opened up my computer and by looking at where the PCI-E x16 port is, there is only a gap of 0.8cm between the port and the intel thing. what am i going to do now

Probably wish you hadn't been so greedy?

Oh no it's alright now, I just realised the fan on the product I'm intending on getting goes down, not up :P Thanks for all the help :)

Covered, page 4. https://www.sevenforums.com/799652-post39.html

Fumz said:

Covered, page 4. https://www.sevenforums.com/799652-post39.html

oh yeah, and all this time I thought that the heatsink would be going up

Your motherboard has a 24pin ATX with a 4pin extension. A lot of newer boards use this, as do the newer PSUs, but it is worth making sure. I don't know if the one Fumz posted has that or not.

If you have something in the way where your graphics card will go, simply move it

~Lordbob

Well one of the PCI ports has a TV tuner in there, but I don't need that :P

Yeah you know what I mean

I'll probably be going for this one, similar to what you recommended me: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 iCooler IV 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card [H485FM1GH] Graphics and Video ATI HD 4000 Series

Apart from putting the graphics card into the PCI-E slot, what else must I connect to it?

Yeah I am upgrading my PSU aswell. All that's left now is for me to get some money