Does my system have PCIe?

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bonylad

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New member here, introduction and a question.

Hello. My name is Chris, and I want to learn more. Always loved computers, and have built several. But I need to learn more.

So introduction aside, I have a question.

I recently decided to purchase a pre made comp instead of building a new one. And I went for a DELL. A DELL 3000 P4 3.0 GHZ to be exact.

So I get the thing and look her over. Looks nice and performs good. I know it came with some crap on board video so I pop open the case to see what slots I have.

I have only PCI slots!!!!!! Oh noes!

Dejected, I purchase a lowly GeForce 5500 PCI 128 MB card to get me by. Uhh........
It plays all my games for the most part (even HL2) pretty well, but some you can tell it doesnt like.

So I look around. I find this thing called PCI express. Hmm does my DELL have that? Call up the customer service number and the guy checks and says it IS PCI Express compatible.

Now before I go and run out and buy a new card to last me. Is their a way I can confirm this. I know the slots I see look to be PCI, but arent the Express slots slightly different? I know they are backwards compatible.

How can I confirm this? SANDRA doesnt tell me much.

Thanks!

Chris
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Yeah I had a bad feeling about that. So I am going to be screwed basically?

Well do you think an upgrade to 1GB of RAM will help things pretty good? From 512 PC3200 DDR?
 
bonylad said:
Yeah I had a bad feeling about that. So I am going to be screwed basically?

Well do you think an upgrade to 1GB of RAM will help things pretty good? From 512 PC3200 DDR?
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It won't hurt.
 
that Dell carries an i865G chipset which is not PCIe compatible, the Tech support guy you talked to probably didn't check anything or is an idiot (I'd say both :)) As said before adding RAM generally helps speed a computer up
 
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