Comments on: Motherboard Overview http://www.pcmech.com/article/motherboard-overview/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:43:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Sharron Field http://www.pcmech.com/article/motherboard-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-22312 Sharron Field Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:14:07 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=7529#comment-22312 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. 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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