Recommendation for single slot graphics card

[TheDreadPirate]

Ok.  I got clarification regarding the GTX1650.  Nvidia has multiple variants of the GTX1650 with the same model number but some variants have different NVENC encoder/decoder generations.  In addition to some models having GDDR5 vs GDDR6 with no way to differentiate for either what kind of GDDR or what NVENC generation a GTX1650 will have. So it isn't that they are unsupported or something. It has to do with the uncertainty of what you will actually get.

   

Do the reddit and Intel forum threads mention whether they upgraded their A310's firmware?  I vaguely recall a firmware update modified fan curves.

The A380 also has a half height model.  But I am not sure if it is a single slot or not.

Regarding the rest of your setup, the only thing I can recommend is to make sure that the version of FreeBSD you are running has drm-62-kmod and newer.  My understanding is that FreeBSD ports Linux kernel drivers and Intel Arc requires Linux kernel 6.2 and newer for kernel driver support.