This entry is part 11 of 23 in the series Build Your Own PC

Posted Jul 10, 2008 | by Rich Menga  

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One Response to “Motherboard Overview”

1. Sharron Field says:

   March 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm

   Holy carp! I haven’t seen an ISA slot in years. – Or an AGP slot come to that. Modern graphics cards use a PCIe x16 slot. – It’s longer but it transfers many times more data.

   On modern motherboards these days (2009) you might also see a (single) rather short slot: This is a PCIe x1 slot; into which you can fit a PCIe multi-USB-port card, a PCIe RAID controller card, or the suchlike.

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