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‎02-25-2017 04:06 AM

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Product: HP Pavilion Desktop - 510-p127
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I purchased a HP Pavilion Desktop 510 p127c for my son and would like to know which generation the PCI Express x16 slot is.  1.0? 2.0? 3.0?  I need to know this in order to upgrade the video card (I know they're backward compatible, but I don't want to waste money on a 3.0 card if this system only has a 1.0 or 2.0 generation slot.  The Motherbard is a Willow motherboard and the specs on HP's site are:  http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05281246

But the generaton of the PCI slot is not given.  Is there some marking on the motherboard itself that would tell me?  Thanks to anyone who can help!

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‎02-25-2017 05:39 AM

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While not a direct answer but the link posted shows a Radeon R7 450 is present in that PC.  From the AMD site, the R7 450 PCI EXPRESS Version 3.0.  It would therefore make sense the motherboard is a PCI Express x16 3.0.

To reinforce that conclusion, I found on this site:

https://www.techpowerup.com/226010/hp-socket-am4-a320-chipset-oem-motherboard-pictured

In that page they state:

Other noteworthy features include two DDR4 DIMM slots, a PCIe gen 3.0 x16 slot, a short M.2 slot, a couple of SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and basic connectivity.


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‎02-25-2017 05:39 AM

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While not a direct answer but the link posted shows a Radeon R7 450 is present in that PC.  From the AMD site, the R7 450 PCI EXPRESS Version 3.0.  It would therefore make sense the motherboard is a PCI Express x16 3.0.

To reinforce that conclusion, I found on this site:

https://www.techpowerup.com/226010/hp-socket-am4-a320-chipset-oem-motherboard-pictured

In that page they state:

Other noteworthy features include two DDR4 DIMM slots, a PCIe gen 3.0 x16 slot, a short M.2 slot, a couple of SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and basic connectivity.


I'm not an HP employee.
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