Please recommend a right-angled PCI-e 16x riser card/cable for a Media Live

The IGP in my Media Live is not running properly, or nVidia's drivers for it are just crap (more likely, I guess), so I need to fit a dedicated video card. The riser fitted for the supplied Hauppage WinTV card is for a PCI slot... I have Aero turned off, which ameliorates teh problem but some windows/applications still don't render properly.
I am having trouble finding a suitable riser card for a PCI-e 16x slot though. The main problem is that the 16x slot is not directly underneath the mounting points for the riser card, which means I need a riser with a flexible cable. Secondly it needs to be right angled and thirdly the slot needs to lie lower than the mounting holes. Most every riser card I've seen has the slot level with or above the mounting holes, however this would not work in the Media Live case.
In a pinch, I guess I could live with a PCI graphics card... but are there ANY modern PCI graphics cards????
So is there a recommended riser card I should use, or am I stuck?

CPU in and running fine. No issues so far, although I haven't run it under load yet.
My Titan heatsink was a tricky fit, the heatpipes are literally touching the RAM heatsinks (though not pressing against them) and the holes in the motherboard were on the large side. Installation instructions were ok but parts bags mislabled! And the supplied thermal paste was horrible... still, it really is a low profile heatsink and one rated to 130Ws - unlike just about every other one out there! The fan I fitted is a Scythe Gentle Typhoon 92mm unit and is really quiet! I hadn't realised just how noisy the original machine was, but with the Typhoon and the Silverstone PSU fitted it is genuinely quiet. Lastly, unlike the GT64 fitted before, it's fins go sideways, not front/backwards, and that means air coming off the heatsink will now go over the heatsink on the NB...
Speaking of which, I discovered the NB heatsink was rather loosely fitted. I'm going to score an aftermarket one with a bigger sink and *maybe* a fan and fit that soon. With proper thermal paste.
Lastly, since they were mentioned as a potential problem, I took a pic of what I think are the VRMs?
If I'm right, I can readily fit a heatsink to those if it would help.
With 8GBs of RAM and a 600GB Velociraptor coming, I am going to do a new windows build soon with 64bit Ultimate. After that, all I have to do is source a slot-load BR drive and the upgrades will be done. Modding the case will be another job...

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程迪,
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