No, it will not work.  You do not have a 16x PCI-Express slot.  You do have a 1X PCI-Express slot for a X1300 card.  Or one of the others will work.

 

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3100/en/sm/techov0.htm#wp1052309  Look at the motherboard on this link.  # 12 is the 1xpci-express slot.  The other slots are pci that you can use if you wish

 

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103016  X1300  PCI slot card - Expensive for what you get in terms of performance

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161017  X1300 1X PCI-Express card The best you can get, but also expensive and low end performance..Hypermemory on the this 1x pci-express version shares the system memory - if you only have 512 system the card will only give you 256 for the GPU. If you have 1 GB system it does show the full amount of 512 for the card - although it is still shared memory. Only the 128 onboard is dedicated to the GPU and it's only 64-bit hardware I/O

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7638292&type=product&id=1130987962366  6200 PCI slot card - Expensive, for low end game settings

http://www.powerleap.com/VideoCards.jsp#PCIbookmark  PCI slot 6200 card. A little less costly

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145087  FX 5500 PCI slot card - A good overall card for the pci slot. Not a barn burner

Hi,

 

Thanks for the response.

 

I'm in canada and they don't sell the card you mentionned X1300 Radeon but there is the following :

 

PCI 256 Mo Radeon 9250 d'ATI

 

Will this fit?

 

It's just that I thought I had bought a better performance PC but I'm almost at the same point as with my old pc and on the message board there seems to be alot of threads pertaining to installing a video card and I just want to make sure before doing anything with my new PC.

 

Thanks again.

 

Gisèle

No.  You have a single X1 slot and regular PCI 2.3  3.3v slots.

A PCI 2.3  X1300 works from Visiontek.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2467314

 

Manufacturer Part# : VTK X1300256PCI

Dell Part# : A0683254

 

The 2 keyways in the Slot indicate Universal PCI aka 3.3v or 5v is ok.

 

 

Anyway, the 9250 card is old, and junk.  You can do so much better.  Try to do a Google Search for your area for either the PCI X1300 card or the X1300 1X PCI-Express card

 

Do not buy a 16X pci-express card nor AGP

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP.