I want to buy a PCI video card to run the game, Rift. But do figure out if I have a PCI slot, I need to open up the computer. And I was just wondering what my Intel(R) GMA 3100 uses as a slot. Thanks.|||First of all, DO NOT BUY A PCI VIDEO CARD. It will be SLOWER than your GMA 3100 graphics. Old non-express PCI is horribly hobbled by its EXTREMELY SLOW bus speed-- 33mHz, with a peak bandwidth of just 133MB/sec.
You need to find out if your computer has a PCIExpress 16x slot. Those are what current graphics cards require. PCIExpress 16x has 32 times the bandwidth of old non-express PCI. MUCH faster.
DO NOT confuse PCI with PCIExpress. The two are TOTALLY DIFFERENT things and UTTERLY INCOMPATIBLE. They have NOTHING to do with each other despite the similarity in name.
Open up your computer and see if it has a PCIExpress 16x slot.|||Your computer most likely uses a PCI-E slot for video cards. This slot will be the top addon slot inside of your computer. The GMA 3100 is onboard which means it's built into the motherboard and you don't have to remove it, simply buy a new videocard, put it into the PCI-E slot and then hook it up and install the driver software for the videocard.|||your gma 3100 doesnt use any slots.. its whats called onboard video. its a tiny little chip built in on the motherboard. Why so reluctant to open up your pc? If its an older computer you probably have PCI or AGP and if its newer you probably have a pci express slot or two.|||That's not a "slot" its on board graphics chip...tell us the mother board or at least the make/model of computer.|||pci slots are white
agp slots are brown
pci-e slots are brown ( about an inch long )
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