[Trinity]

Hey there , Im Recently after having my parents buy me a new computer.

''Emachine El-1300 ''

Im after allready upgrading the ram and processor fine.

And so i went to move on to the video card.
And well , its a slimline desktop so rather small,
And not only that its a the video card is integrated
Onto the motherboard.

More less theres expansion slots on the casing for it ,
the only slots on the motherboard itsself , its a single pcie x1 ( i do believe , its a small black one about half an inch long? )

Anyway , Needless to say the video card is only around 120 mb and i wish to upgrade because i like to play my games , if anyone could help , or just have aname of a decent video card that could fit it would be muchly appreciated

Heres a picture of what im dealing with

[Carbon]

In the case where it's a slimline with a good PSU, you can get away with underpowered, overpriced low profile cards.

In the much more common case where it's a slimline with a bad PSU, you can buy aftermarket tiny PSUs like from Sparkle that fit in these machines and then get away with those low profile cards. A friend of mine did this and has a 4670 running in his low-profile HP.

In the case where you only have an X1 slot, you're pretty much out of luck. That thing below it looks full-size, but it's hard to tell whether it's PCI or not from here. Since the system only has one other slot, I assume it's PCI.

If you want to game on this thing, you would need to buy a low profile card for a lot of money, take a hacksaw to either your motherboard or the card to chop off 15 lanes and risk destroying both in a pretty non-refundable way, then plug it in and hope the PSU is good enough and doesn't explode, taking your system with it. That's the long way to say you're screwed.

To circumvent all this you'd need a new case, new PSU, new motherboard. And did I mention this system has a low-power Athlon chip that's going to severely bottleneck anything you put into it?

This system was designed to be a netbook minus the 'laptop' part, not a gaming machine. It's not even a standard slimline desktop - it is expressly designed around web browsing and basic tasks. You're pretty much out of luck, short of selling it to someone who actually needs a system with low power consumption and heat and buying a gaming desktop.

[Trinity]

Yeah so i noticed , I bumped the ram upto 3 , and the processor i re places with a dual core 2.7 athlon , so that was all fine and dandy , but like u said yeah it looks like theresa pci slot there , but its just metal studs , i was thinking the same thing like what the hell

[Razer]

Just a quick thought, that lower socket looks like it's actually been removed.. I have one on a Dell where the port was removed for reasons I can't think of.

Is that long bar at the bottom a connector OP?

[Trinity]

Im bot sure what is is razer , it looks like there should be a pci , or pcie slot , but its just metal studs , im not sure if im able to buy a slot and attach , but yeah it hell looks like one doesnt it

[Razer]

The metal studs indicate the socket was either never put on or has been removed. Can't add a card if there's nothing to add it to..

The model you've bought (Or have been bought) is a cheap model designed to power up, run the web and power off. You'd need a new motherboard, power supply and case to run a decent graphics card..

Don't go thinking you can attach one, in order to try and prevent possible water damage, most of a motherboard has a varnish over it. This goes on after the components are soldered in place. You'd have to remove the varnish, de-solder it, then solder on the socket and replace the varnish. Much easier to buy a new motherboard and such. You can, however, switch over your processor, RAM, hard drive, optical drive and OS from that PC to a new one. Saves pennies which you can upgrade in the future when you have the cash but you're going to need quite a lot of it and will probably end up just buying everything new tbh. Bit of a shame but that's the way computers go.. The second you buy something, it's out of date..