Thursday, April 26, 2012

How to connect a new pci express video card to a old pci slot?

my pc doesnt have agp or pci express and the motherboard video card its crap want something to put a pci express video card into a pci old slot please help me :((((((((((|||PCI and PCIExpress are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things and are UTTERLY incompatible, despite the similarity in name. They have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other.



You will NEVER be able to use PCIExpress cards on PCI slots, or vice versa. Don't even think it.|||There is no way to do this, the slots for both PCI and AGP are a different size to PCiE cards. Generally they have either a physically different slot size or a notch in the wrong place to stop you from putting the wrong card in the wrong slot. Electrically they are also different, the voltages in use in one slot will either fry or under power the "wrong" card.

Your only option is to buy a better mainboard as firstly PCI VGA cards are rather difficult to find in stock in many places and secondly they are not great when it comes to meeting modern day requirements for programs and especially games.

Ideally you need to get yourself a new PC or at least a more modern second hand one. try these people for a refurbished machine at a decent price - www.buyitdirect.co.uk (cheapest home PC on the site today is under £170)|||That's not going to happen. I have a spare PC I will be getting rid of soon, don't want anything for it. Reasonable spec and probably worth a few hundred pounds. Its an upgraded Dell 8400 with 4Gb RAM and a GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU. If you want it PM me, if you are in the UK anyway.|||It will not fit and there are no converters that will make it fit. In addition PCI-e runs at a different speed than PCI. Since you have neither AGP nor PCI-e you probably have a very old computer and is not worth upgrading.|||You can't, You need a new Motherboard.|||You cant period end of story no possible way to do it|||Get a PCI video card. You cannot use PCI-E card.

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