WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
Nature The World Movies USA Top Art Fine & Rare History Ivy & Inquiry
Expansion card
Videos
In computing, an expansion card, also known as an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card, is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or exp
Example of a PCI digital I/O expansion card using a large square chip from PLX Technology to handle the PCI bus interface
Example of a PCI digital I/O expansion card using a large square chip from PLX Technology to handle the PCI bus interface
Altair 8800b from March 1976 with an 18-slot S-100 backplane which housed both the Intel 8080 mainboard and many expansion boards
Altair 8800b from March 1976 with an 18-slot S-100 backplane which housed both the Intel 8080 mainboard and many expansion boards
Rack of IBM Standard Modular System expansion cards in an IBM 1401 computer using a 16-pin gold plated edge connector first introduced in 1959
Rack of IBM Standard Modular System expansion cards in an IBM 1401 computer using a 16-pin gold plated edge connector first introduced in 1959
Configuration DIP switches in a 16-pin through-hole package as often found in ISA expansion cards from the 1980s
Configuration DIP switches in a 16-pin through-hole package as often found in ISA expansion cards from the 1980s
PCI Express
Videos
PCI Express, officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a high-speed standard used to connect hardware components inside computers. It is designed to replace older expansion bus standards such as PCI, PCI-X a
A PCIe 3.0 ×8 host bus adapter
A PCIe 3.0 ×8 host bus adapter
Various slots on a computer motherboard, from top to bottom: PCI Express ×4 PCI Express ×16 PCI Express ×1 PCI Express ×16 Conventional PCI (32-bit, 5
Various slots on a computer motherboard, from top to bottom: PCI Express ×4 PCI Express ×16 PCI Express ×1 PCI Express ×16 Conventional PCI (32-bit, 5 V)
PCI Express ×1 card containing a PCI Express switch (covered by a small heat sink), which creates multiple endpoints out of one endpoint and lets mult
PCI Express ×1 card containing a PCI Express switch (covered by a small heat sink), which creates multiple endpoints out of one endpoint and lets multiple devices share it
The PCIe slots on a motherboard are often labeled with the number of PCIe lanes they have. Sometimes what may seem like a large slot may only have a f
The PCIe slots on a motherboard are often labeled with the number of PCIe lanes they have. Sometimes what may seem like a large slot may only have a few lanes. For instance, a ×16 slot with only 4 PCIe lanes (bottom slot) is quite common.