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UncleTony   10-28-2009 at 08:27:43 PM

Hi there I recently got an acer aspire ax1300 with a 256mb graphics card. This card is not that good and I would like to upgrade to a 1gig, this needs to be low profile and pci. I found the xfx/ati radeon hd 4350 at a very good deal, this is pci-e. Does anyone know whether this will work and if not what would you suggest. Thanks a lot!

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aleatoire   10-29-2009 at 08:36:52 AM
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If you only have PCI slots then no, a PCI-E video card won't work, sorry. PCI and PCI-E are different types of slot. PCI being for things such as sound cards and things, while PCI-E slots are made just for graphics cards.

Although I know you can buy PCI video cards I don't know much about them so I can't help you there sorry.

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505090   10-29-2009 at 08:45:24 AM
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No they they are different, pci-e is replacing pci gradually. Both types of slots support graphics, sound, networking, and whatever else you wanna put in them.

Here are several cards that meet your requirements
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 83%3A20729

personally i would get the sparkle 9400gt cause it has no fan

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aleatoire   10-29-2009 at 10:11:56 AM
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Oh, really? OK then, didn't know that you could put things that aren't graphics cards in a PCI-E slot. Anyway yeah, a PCI-E card won't work with a PCI slot.

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505090   10-29-2009 at 06:39:30 PM
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you can also put different size pci-e cards in pci-e slots, ie a 1x 2x or 4x card will all fit in a 8x or 16x slot with no issues, or you can put a larger card in a smaller slot but that actually takes some work

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