Has Anyone Put A PCI Graphics Card In An Emachines Lately ?

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I am running an Emachines C3060 with only 2 PCI slots ,

CPU: AMD Sempron? 3000+ Processor
(2GHz, 333MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache)
Operating System: Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Home
Monitor: Includes eMachines® 17" CRT (eView? 17F3)
(16" Viewable, 0.25mm dot pitch)
Chipset: NVIDIA® nForce? 2 chipset
Memory: 512MB DDR (PC3200), expandable to 4GB
Hard Drive: 160GB (7200rpm)
Optical Drives: 16x DVD±RW, Multi Format Double Layer
48x CD-ROM drive
Media Reader: 8-in-1 digital media manager (USB 2.0, Secure Digital? (SD),
Smart Media, Micro Drive, Memory Stick®, Memory Stick Pro®, Compact Flash,
Multimedia Card)
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce®4? MX graphics
64MB shared video memory
Sound: 6-Channel AC '97 Audio
Network: 10/100Mbps integrated Ethernet LAN
Modem: 56K ITU V.92-ready Fax/Modem
Peripherals: Standard multimedia keyboard, 2-button wheel mouse, amplified
stereo speakers
Ports/Other: 7 USB 2.0 Ports (2 in front, 4 in back, 1 in Media Reader),
1 Parallel, 2 PS/2 (keyboard and mouse)


& I want to upgrade from the current GeForce4 MX (64mb shared memory), to
a Forsa 6600 GT 256mb PCI-E graphics card.

Has anyone, in principle, done this with an Emachine ?

Any info greatly appreciated.


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