My friend bought a reasonably priced (around $600) standard computer and is looking to upgrade his graphics card, so I told him I'd find him one. Well I told him to install a hardware inspection program so that I could determine what he needed and this is the info it gave him:

Video Chipset: nVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE (C51)
Video Memory: 64 MBytes of SDRAM
Video Card: Unknown
Video Bus: PCI

Can this be right? I can understand the lower end card because its just a standard home computer, but a PCI slot? They haven't used those in YEARS. Hell, the motherboard in one of my computers is almost 5 years old and it at least has AGP. And this isn't an old used one, this is a brand new HP bought at Circuit City. I made sure to ask if it said PCI or PCI-e but he assured me it says PCI. I'm not physically at his house so I can't open it up and check right now (and he'd have no idea how) so I was just wondering, is this even possible? Could it be a mistake? Can someone let me know based on the card? Thanks.

hey roryt2000,

i have a nvidia Geforce 6150 le chipset and my motherboard has a pci-e slot

i think it says video bus: pci because thats the way that the manufacturer set's up the bios i think

genie3251

NVidia's site says "these are only found on Nvidia GPU motherboard solutions" which is integrated onboard video.
Actually not too old (Sept 05)
so it would use PCI-e. If there's a separate PCI-e slot you can upgrade it... you will need to know the exact motherboard model. Then get the specs from it's maker.
You will need to disable the onboard video in the BIOS when you install the new card.

PC Perspective - NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPU Motherboard Chipset Preview