no graphics card slot?!?

[Rhonda85]

Hello, I have acquired an older HP pc. It has a Pentium 4 3.4, 2.5 GB ram, 640gb hard disk and for free it is a decent system BUT there is no PCI-x slot! looks like it was left off on purpose. It has the el-cheapo GMA 900 built in graphics. I would hate to use the old school 1995 vintage PCI slot for a graphics card. I have heard the HP (and maybe others) have left off the graphics card slot on purpose, why? to save a quarter or just to piss off customers?

 

[pukemon]

Probably an Intel 910GL and yep, no PCI Express slot to save a nickel and piss off customers.

 

[JackMDS]

I guarantee that Armageddon would decent upon us if you will use a good Old PCI card. :sneaky:

 

[schenley101]

Most business computers with integrated graphics did not come with an agp or later a pcie slot. Tech support people look at it as just one more thing to break. Where I worked, all of the PIII dells just had pci slots.

 

[RebateMonger]

You aren't stuck with 1995 technology. ATI 4350 and NVidia 6200 and 9500 GT cards are available in PCI.

 

[0roo0roo]

shrink the psu possibly if you remove agp power requirements.
so did they leave headroom? or is the psu totally borderline.