I have a friend whose emachine desktop(T3646) is in need of a new graphic card. The statistics says it has a PCI-E x8 slot and I read on another website that it will accept a PCI-Ex16 card but only run at 8x speed. I just want to doublecheck to see if this is true BEFORE i buy the video card and the power supply. The main stats for the desktop is below.
[CPU: AMD Sempron? LE-1250 single-core processor
(2.2GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 1600MHz system bus)
Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista? Home Basic with Service Pack 11
Chipset: NVIDIA? GeForce? 6100
Memory: 1024MB 667MHz DDR2 dual-channel memory (1 ? 1024MB)
Expandable to 2GB
2 DDR2 slots total, 1 DDR2 slots available
Hard Drive: 160GB SATA II (7200rpm, 8MB cache)2
Optical Drives: 16x DVD?R/RW Supermulti drive
Up to 8.5GB with dual-layer media
Write max: 16x DVD?R, 8x DVD?R DL, 8x DVD?RW, 12x DVD-RAM, 48x CD-R, 40x CD-RW
Read max: 16x DVD-ROM, 48x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM DL
Video: NVIDIA? GeForce? 6100 integrated graphics
Up to 128MB shared video memory
PCI Express (PCIe x8) slot available for upgrade]
