GUYS! BLACK FRIDAY! Does every computer have a pci slot?

Question

for video cards

So... what about umm agp? o.O

I don't know
All I just know is that
I have a dell dimension 5150...

Answer 1

NO, all computers do not have PCI slots, and I have a few dozen with NO slots of any kind. These computers would be highly specialized " ALL IN ONE" types with almost everything needed onboard - LAN, Modem, USB, Firewire, COM 1 and 2, Parallel, Video ( in and out ) Sound, etc. are all onboard. I have a few hundred computers with NO PCI, but they have ESDI slots, VESA slots, EISA slots, SCSI slots, ISA 16 and 8 bit slots, AMR slots, proprietary AV slots, Proprietary memory slots, etc.

As for the second part of your question, what about AGP slots, no, all computers do not have the Accelerated Graphics Port Slot. This AGP "standard" slot was supposed to fix slow slot interface speeds to the video card, but the CPU speeds kept getting faster than the AGP speeds, and there are dozens of AGP standards, and even more NON-standard AGP slots, all of which are too slow to run with the most modern CPU's and bus speeds and Chipsets.
PCI- Express ( PCI X or PCI E ) is now the fastest, mostly due to the fact that the PCI X system allows many slots. The Crossfire, for example, can have 2 video PCI-X cards for a single monitor - ONE card draws the top half of the screen, and the other draws the bottom half, while a third PCI X card does mathematical crunching for the rendering, and a fourth PCI X card does math for rotations. With AGP, you can only have ONE card.
To see what a typical, multiple PCI-X system would look like, see:

http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/physics/index.html


I do not know WHAT you want to add to your computer in WHAT slot, so I cannot advise you further. If you give more details on what you are trying to do, people can give you detailed answers covering all of your options on YOUR computer. Without any details, you will only get vague, general answers, that may not help pin-point the information you really want....

Your computer is listed at:http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim5150/en/sm/specs1.htm

as having the following specifications:

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Manuals
Specifications

Dell™ Dimension™ 5150/E510 Service Manual
Processor
Processor type
Intel® Pentium® 4 5XXX and 6XXX processors with Hyper-Threading technology

NOTE: Not all Pentium 4 processors support Hyper-Threading technology.

Level 1 (L1) cache
16 KB
Level 2 (L2) cache
1 MB for Pentium 5XXX processors

2 MB for Pentium 6XXX processors

(depending on your computer configuration) pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, write-back SRAM

Memory
Type
400-MHz and 533-MHz DDR2 unbuffered SDRAM

Memory connectors
four

Memory capacities
256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB non-ECC

Maximum memory
4 GB

NOTE: See "Addressing Memory With 4-GB Configurations" to verify the amount of memory available to the operating system.

BIOS address
F0000h

Computer Information
Chipset
Intel 945G Express

RAID Support
RAID 1 (Mirroring)

DMA channels
eight

Interrupt levels
24

BIOS chip (NVRAM)
4 Mb

NIC
Integrated network interface capable of 10/100 communication

System clock
800- or 1066-MHz data rate

Video
Type
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (GMA950)

Audio
Type
Sigmatel STAC9220

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Expansion Bus
Bus type
PCI 2.3
PCI Express x1 and x16
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Bus speed
PCI: 33 MHz

PCI Express:
x1 slot bidirectional speed - 500 MB/s

x16 slot bidirectional speed - 8 GB/s

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PCI
connectors
two

connector size
120 pins
connector data width (maximum)
32 bits


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PCI Express
connector
one x1
connector size
36 pins
connector data width (maximum)


1 PCI Express lane

PCI Express
connector
one x16
connector size
164 pins
connector data width (maximum)
16 PCI Express lanes

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Which states that you HAVE 2 standard PCI slots with the
standard 33 MHz bus speed, as well as 2 PCI EXPRESS
slots for the new PCI X Video cards.

You should be able to add the new 2-Video card PCI X sets
for video, and 2 more PCI cards of your choosing. The
PCI slots are USUALLY nearest the bottom of the case, and are
USUALLY white.

To see related VIDEO questions that I have answered in the past,
you can click on these links:

About AGP slots, my answer:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoi5pocZl9X71P7qiK2ayBDsy6IX?qid=20061108014722AAVQvUY

About running more than one video on one computer:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoi2UfhlqOdZHYfUByoeZjbsy6IX?qid=20061024063309AAAQIWn

Hope this helps you to get your computer outfitted with whatever new PCI devices you are looking for.
If you post more details on what you are trying to achieve, you will get better, clearer, detailed, answers.

robin

Answer 2

If your computer is between 3 and 5 years old, get the PCI graphics card.. you can get a 128MB 3D card for less than $50 at Wal-mart. You may have an AGP slot, but you will have a PCI slot.
Newer machines will have an AGP for sure.

Answer 3

all computers have a PCI slot .... but only very old video cards go into PCI slots
Not so old cards go into an AGP slot
and newer cards go into a PCI-E slot
All are different and NOT interchangable
You just need to determine which card you need I would think it would be either an AGP or PCI-E

Answer 4

nicely that would not tell me the mobo so im gonna make an knowledgeable guess and say pci, thinking AGP is previous and that's a twin middle processor, yet whether its a dell. ~matt