Best card

hello,
would the best video card for my dell e310 be the ATI Radeon X1300? cuz my comp has only got pci slots,
thanks

if your computer has a PCIexpress x16 slot, you can fit most cards on the market to date, as the current standard is PCIe x16. As long as you have the power output and budget for a card, you can use it.

if you mean you have just a PCI slot, you are limited to an older set of cards. I dont know if radeon makes x1300 cards in PCI format, but the bandwidth and performance is low-end by today's standards, not to mention the less choice in selection.

I think either the x1550 or the x1300 is the highest card ATI has for PCI though

No, the dell e310 does not have a PCI express slot.

Why do you plan on upgrading your video card? What are you going to do?

It has one ex1 slot no x16 slots, however this topic is relevant as HP and Dell, particularly Dell continued to make workstations, even with more advanced cpu's w/o x16 slots as they were not always seen to be needed, today with the emphasis on netbooks and tablets and the kludge of vista keeping an old desktop going with xp sp3 seems relevant even as win8 is being transitioned to....HIS seems to have some pretty powerful x1 graphic cards theses days, but my slot has a usb3 card in it now, but I am using an SSD 60 gb as a boot drive, I have 4 gb ram even though the bios is suppose to limit to 2 gb, now I have 32 bit running, but might try to partition to a 64bit Win7 pro upgrade on an SSD which might add a couple of useful years to the old desktop as some programs have been activated on this machine and cannot be run elsewhere as things stand.

I think your choice is good but you can try some other cards.

Yes . i think it will be ok.

The Dell Dimension E310 is strong on data security but surprisingly weak on graphics and upgradability. For a true multimedia PC, be prepared to spend it.

ATI Radeon X1300 is best , i am also using it.