• PCI-E 16x to 1x on a Dell E310
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Ok, so I have a nice gaming PC with a GTX460 and a C2D. However, my brother sometimes wants to play with me. The only other PC we have is an old Dell Dimension E310, with a terrible Intel GPU that uses the 400MHZ System RAM as VRAM. It goes without saying that all games run terribly. I'm thinking a lot of this has to do with the GPU. Now, the only PCI-E it has is 1x, so it can't take regular 16x cards. However, I've seen that some people either modify the PCI-E slot or the actual connector on the card to allow it to fit in. (I think some motherboards even have premade slots in the PCI-E 1x connector) I have 2 old GPUs that I'm thinking of putting in. A [URL="http://ii.alatest.com/product/600x400/9/a/EVGA-E-geforce-7600GS-256MB-with-Fan-0.jpg"]7600GS[/URL] and a [URL="http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa283/piscian18/9600d.jpg"]9600GSO[/URL]. The second would be nice, but I'm not sure the PSU could handle it. In any event, any GPU would be better than what's in there. So I'm asking. If I install the 7600 in the PCI-E 1x slot, would it work? As far as I know it's just lacking a few (lol) extra data lanes, and so should still work, but I'm not quite sure. And would the PSU be able to handle it? (I think it's 300-something Watts, I can try and get the exact number if you need it) And would it be able to handle any games (just Source games really, any settings will do; I'm open to DX8) [B]SPECS:[/B] 3 GHz Pentium 4 630 1GB 400MHz(effective) DDR2 RAM Windows XP SP3
You'll have to cut off the end of the socket for it to fit.
[QUOTE=BMCHa;24456334]Ok, so I have a nice gaming PC with a GTX460 and a C2D. However, my brother sometimes wants to play with me. The only other PC we have is an old Dell Dimension E310, with a terrible Intel GPU that uses the 400MHZ System RAM as VRAM. It goes without saying that all games run terribly. I'm thinking a lot of this has to do with the GPU. Now, the only PCI-E it has is 1x, so it can't take regular 16x cards. However, I've seen that some people either modify the PCI-E slot or the actual connector on the card to allow it to fit in. (I think some motherboards even have premade slots in the PCI-E 1x connector) I have 2 old GPUs that I'm thinking of putting in. A [URL="http://ii.alatest.com/product/600x400/9/a/EVGA-E-geforce-7600GS-256MB-with-Fan-0.jpg"]7600GS[/URL] and a [URL="http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa283/piscian18/9600d.jpg"]9600GSO[/URL]. The second would be nice, but I'm not sure the PSU could handle it. In any event, any GPU would be better than what's in there. So I'm asking. If I install the 7600 in the PCI-E 1x slot, would it work? As far as I know it's just lacking a few (lol) extra data lanes, and so should still work, but I'm not quite sure. And would the PSU be able to handle it? (I think it's 300-something Watts, I can try and get the exact number if you need it) And would it be able to handle any games (just Source games really, any settings will do; I'm open to DX8) [B]SPECS:[/B] 3 GHz Pentium 4 630 1GB 400MHz(effective) DDR2 RAM Windows XP SP3[/QUOTE] No this will never work without buying a new motherboard.
surprisingly its has been done before
Even if you could get it to work, it would be running at such a low speed that It might not even be worth all the trouble.
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