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Will this graphics card work on a Dell Dimension 3100? |
lukechris
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It is a Gigabyte 256MB/512MB Geforce 7300SE PCI-E Graphics Card and I only have a PCI slot left on it!
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lukechris
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I've just bought it so it'd better lool
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gaming_guy
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PCI and PCI-express are incompatible.....
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lukechris
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are you kidding? why |
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garlic_bread
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Most mother boards have 1 pci e slot for graphics do you not have one of those as well as you pci slots?
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tranced
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according to the image you have a pci express x1
what kind of pci express is yours?
more at: http://support.dell.com/suppo[....]00/en/sm/techov0.htm#wp1052309
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jcwhite_uk
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PCI-E graphics cards need PCI-E 16 slot. They wont work on a PCI-E x1 slot.
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yea g
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Yea, it won't work in a normal pci slot (usually white) it needs either pci express 2.0, pci express x8, or pci express x16 (usually the only time you should have a x8 slot is for sli)
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lukechris
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On 2009-04-07 06:40:44, yea g wrote:
Yea, it won't work in a normal pci slot (usually white) it needs either pci express 2.0, pci express x8, or pci express x16 (usually the only time you should have a x8 slot is for sli)
Oh ***
According to this:
The slot I have is the bottom image, standard PCI?
So the card I just bought is wrong still?
[ This Message was edited by: lukechris on 2009-04-07 07:25 ] |
lukechris
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I have just been browsing to find out some more info and look what I found
Someone at newegg.com put:
"PCI Express x1. this card works great in my Dell e310. easy to install and Setup. noticeable difference in video play."
The Dell e310 has the same motherboard, so all good, and to back up that card which is PCI Express X1, look at dell's documentation
• Two PCI card slots
• One PCI Express x1 card slot
Anyway that video card I talked about then is here
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jcwhite_uk
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OK, looks like the card you bought will work. First PCi-E X1 video card I have ever sen.
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yea g
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I think a card might work in the x1 slot. It fits anyway, but covers the ram slots
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lukechris
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On 2009-04-07 08:58:12, jcwhite_uk wrote:
OK, looks like the card you bought will work. First PCi-E X1 video card I have ever sen.
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@yea g
Hi you are on about the one in the top few posts aren't you
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Cycovision
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^^^
I think they were on about the graphics card that you linked to further down the page.
The PCI-E card will not work in your PC. A PCI 1x card would. So, if you bought the PCI-E one, it won't work 
EDIT: By PCI-E, I mean the standard PCI-E 16x type of card, which the one you mentioned in your first post appears to be.
[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2009-04-07 16:03 ] |
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Posted: 2009-04-06 21:38
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