I'm trying to install a decent video card in my computer. How do I know if I have PCI X16 in my machine?

my model is: HP d530 small form factor, 512mb of ram,

Pentium 4 2.8ghz,ati radeon 9200 256mb vram, and 40gb hdd.

|||Go to the following Intel link:

http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-009245.htm



Here there are instructions how to identify your express chipset, once you have identified your chipset, you can look up the specs on the Intel site for it and identify if it supports the PCI x16 graphics interface.



You can also use the chipset identification utility supplied by Intel on the same page.



Also, the connectors are set up for backwards compatibility, but an x16 connector will only fit an x16 compatible PCIe mating connector or less. See below



slot insertion guidelines



* A x1 connector can only take a x1 card

* A x16 connector can take a x1 through a x16 card

* A x8 connector with x4 links is physically a x8 connector and can take a x1 through a x8 card

* If a x8 card is inserted in a x8 connector with x4 links, the speed will throttle down to the speeds of a x4 card



Good luck,|||open your comp..

on the motherboard there is a slot given

which is generally covered by a WARNING overleaf stating not to use a fake card

that slot is for your video card and the Graphics



try it|||If you check the system specs, it should tell you what the expansion slots are.



I checked the HP website for the manual which indicates only AGP.