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An a agp slot is normally used for an what expansion card?
An AGP video card.
What type of expansion card can have a retention mechansim at the bottom of the card to help stabalize it in the slot?
AGP Video card AGP retention mechanism = AGP Video expansion card
What is a slot card?
A slot card is a modular expansion card, which can be inserted into a free expansion slot in a PC computer. Most popular types of slot cards are graphic cards, sound cards, TV tuner cards and video editing cards.
What is the function of the Expansion slot?
it lets you add a sound,video card, wifi card ,things of that nature
A narrow slot on the motherboard where an expansion card can be inserted?
expansion slot
Which slot is used for 3d graphics video cards?
The now obsolete AGP slot was used solely for video. The current slots used for video, the large x16 PCIe connectors, can also be used for general PCIe expansion cards. Sitting in shelf above my head, I still have some PCI and ISA slot video cards: using a general-purpose expansion slot for video is the standard way, and a dedicated graphics expansion slot was a short-term abberation.
What expansion slot would be used to install a video capture card on a new PC?
I believe you can get PCI, PCI-X or AGP video capture cards. Each card would need the corresponding slot, such as an AGP card would require an AGP slot.
What is the difference between expansion slot vs expansion card?
Expansion Slot is just like port into which expansion card can be inserted. In otherwords port is female and card is male.
What socket on the motherboard can hold an adapter card?
The expansion slot is the socket on the motherboard that can hold an adapter card. There are different types of expansion slots (pci, pcie, pciex16) so you need to check that the expansion is the same kind as the adapter card.
An expansion slot card that can have retention mechanism at the bottom of the card to help stabilize the slot?
AGP = Accelerated Graphic Card
Can I upgrade my computer graphics?
Take a look at your system motherboard to see if it has an AGP or PCI Express card slot (it will be the topmost expansion slot on the motherboard--your monitor should be connected to the card currently sitting there). This will tell you which type of video card is available to you.
Is the video slot reported by the video card differ from the type of video slot reported by the motherboard?
no no really
