I was looking on ebay for video cards and came across PCI-E and was wondering if it'll work in PCI slots, and if so how much of a speed difference will I notice. My current PC specs:
Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ (Prescott Core) with Hyper-threading
1 GB of Ram
HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA4165B (That's what system information says)
80 GB WD Harddrive
Nvidia GeForce MX 4000 with 128MB (in case they came in different memory sizes)
Motherboard came out of an IBM Computer, not sure of the name, but it uses a PCI riser (I believe that's what you call it) and only gives me 2 PCI slots, which one is taken by the above mentioned video card. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
2007-01-30 14:44:51 · 4 answers · asked by eragon200485 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
No, PCI-E is not compatible with PCI. There are slightly better PCI cards than an MX 4000, but unless your motherboard has an AGP slot, you're pretty much out of luck.
2007-01-30 14:49:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
convinced that is backwards properly proper. It purely gained't artwork as quickly because the pci-e 2.0. I have a ATI Radeon 3850 it truly is pci convey 2.0 and it runs on my pci convey x16 all proper. solid success with the video card.
2016-12-03 06:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope ! different sized slot and different pin count.
2007-01-30 14:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by pilot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it won't, totally different.
2007-01-30 14:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by Barry B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋