Purchasing a PCI Express Card

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Astro-Xana

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I have a 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium desktop computer with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processer 5200+ 2.60 GHz and 2.00 GB of RAM. Now I have a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE nForce 430 with 128 MB of dedicated RAM. But I am planning on purchasing a good PCI Express card with at least 512 MB of RAM or more (since I do 3d modeling/animation and other graphic intense things).

However, when I went to Device Manager, I noticed PCI bus under system devices as well as PCI Standard RAM Controller and PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI bridge. Now does this mean that my motherboard only has PCI slots and not one PCI Express slot? If there is actually a PCI Express slot for a PCI Express graphics card that I could purchase, how would I find out if I have one?

EDIT: Actually, it turns out that my motherboard has no PCI Express slots whatsoever--only PCI. And this is a new computer I just bought at Office Max in December of last year. So how am I supposed to get a good PCI Express card now?
 
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Astro-Xana said:
If there is actually a PCI Express slot for a PCI graphics card that I could purchase, how would I find out if I have one?
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Just slide the side off and look for one :P

It'll look like the blue or black slot like shown in this picture;

pcieblueandbalck-1.jpg
 
Actually, it turns out that my motherboard has no PCI Express slots whatsoever--only PCI. And this is a new computer I just bought at Office Max in December of last year. So how am I supposed to get a good PCI Express card now?
 
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That sucks that you bought it last year and it doesn't have PCI-E.
I guess that's what you get with pre-builds though. They are still claiming Dual Core technology to be brand new. What a joke.

I'm afraid if you want to get a new PCI-E card you'll need a new Motherboard, if you aren't looking to spend much go for something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128076

Cheap, but has a PC-E slot and is by a well known brand.
 
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