windowcrank

I need to buy a PCI (not PCIx or AGP) with enough power and a graphics engine and enough mem to run the Vista Aero interface. Will buy new or used. My machine is an HP a1140n with 1 open PCI slot, 3gh CPU and 2gb mem with 750gb disk. The built in video is not capable of running Aero.

aximbigfan

THIS is really the only pci card out there to handle vista, vistas going to run pretty good with it, but dont expect to be gaming on pci....


chris

Xtremegene

I would tend to agree with aximbigfan; if you are familiar with newegg, they have some better deals for the x1300, compared to CompUSA.

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Cilicon472

you're computer looks nice enough, you are sure it didn't come with an AGP slot?

windowcrank

Originally Posted by Cilicon472

you're computer looks nice enough, you are sure it didn't come with an AGP slot?

Yep, I'm sure about the AGP and PCIx. Its one of the ways these off-the-shelf guys keep the price down on the boxes, they scrimp the connectors on the mother board (ASUS in this case) just to save a few pennies and keep cost as low as possible, and of course to keep you upgrading to a newer machine. The pinouts are on the motherboard for PCIx but no connector is soldered in there.

I'm a pretty decent hardware engineer and have built a lot of really wild stuff but I would not try to solder a new connecter into that PCIx slot. Almost guaranteed to 'off' the Mobo.

aximbigfan

Originally Posted by windowcrank

Yep, I'm sure about the AGP and PCIx. Its one of the ways these off-the-shelf guys keep the price down on the boxes, they scrimp the connectors on the mother board (ASUS in this case) just to save a few pennies and keep cost as low as possible, and of course to keep you upgrading to a newer machine. The pinouts are on the motherboard for PCIx but no connector is soldered in there. I'm a pretty decent hardware engineer and have built a lot of really wild stuff but I would not try to solder a new connecter into that PCIx slot. Almost guaranteed to 'off' the Mobo.

first off, i checked, the pc does not infact have any expansinion slots but 3xpci.
seocund, it would be very unlikly that yoiur pc would have pcix slots. maybe pcie but usally only servers and very high end work stations have pcix (esentually 64 bit pci)
theird, doint try to solder anythign on the board. that p[cie x16 co0nnector is prolly populated by the on board video.


chris

Rice Lover

Hey ABF, I used to use PCIx to designate PCI express, but yes technically PCIe is the correct term, PCIx doesn't come with any HP computer except their high end servers, like the ProLiant.

windowcrank

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Originally Posted by aximbigfan

first off, i checked, the pc does not infact have any expansinion slots but 3xpci.</p> <p>seocund, it would be very unlikly that yoiur pc would have pci<b>x</b> slots. maybe pci<b>e</b> but usally only servers and very high end work stations have pcix (esentually 64 bit pci)</p> <p>theird, doint try to solder anythign on the board. that p[cie x16 co0nnector is prolly populated by the on board video.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>chris

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Ya, I actually meant PCIe, I tend to refer to one when I mean the other. Fortunately I'm not a gamer, I'm a developer.