pci e *1 and graphics

a friend of mine has a lovely little Emachines 5240 containing the highly desirable D915GVWB Mainboard. When he bought the PC 3 years ago (pretty much to the day) he opted to get an ATI sapphire X700 Hybrid graphics card, one of the first PCI Express graphics cards to be available. However 2 days ago the fan on the GPU fell off, taking the ability to play games with it. What he wants to do is to purchase a new graphics card and has been looking at ATI's 3870 due to its cost and performance, however all Graphics cards these days seem to specify a requirement for a PCI express *16 slot (which this particular motherboard does not have). Sadly after days trawling through forums i havent found the answer to "will a PCIE *16 graphcis card work in a PCIE *1 slot. I'm aware that due to the nature of the slot there would be a performance hit on any graphics card that he purchases, but when your only other option is a new micro ATX motherboard (which kinda dents into the graphics card fund) what else can you do! hope someone out there has tried what im trying to do thanks

lovely… …Emachine

Hmmm - there's an oxymoron if ever there was one!

will a PCIE *16 graphcis card work in a PCIE *1 slot.

Different physical slots so nope, I don't think so. There are a few PCIe x1 cards out there, I would look at them.

PCI-e x1 GeForce 7300GT

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