To help prevent them from overheating.
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Expansion Slot is just like port into which expansion card can be inserted. In otherwords port is female and card is male.
It controls the part of the external data bus connected to the expansion slots.
Peripheral ports such as COM, USB and serial ports, are input/output interfaces that allow devices to connect to a computer. Expansion slots are sockets on the motherboard where an expansion card is inserted.
An expansion slot on the computer is basically add other hardware or peripherals, such as graphics cards, sound cards, and network cards. The expansion slots consist of usually 2 things. The first is the PCI or AGP slot that is on the motherboard itself. The second part is built onto the case. It is pretty much a docking station where you screw the card to the case. An expansion slot on the computer is basically add other hardware or peripherals, such as graphics cards, sound cards, and network cards. The expansion slots consist of usually 2 things. The first is the PCI or AGP slot that is on the motherboard itself. The second part is built onto the case. It is pretty much a docking station where you screw the card to the case. by: tink
That is difficult to say without knowing the cards intended use. Some cards plug into expansion slots on motherboards. Some plug into risers. Some expansion cards are actually daughter cards that plug into another card.
The price of 8 expansion slots equals the price of 7 expansion slots.
You may be able to add more RAM if you have 1 or more empty expansion slots.
expansion slots are the slots that are located on the mother boards of the computer and at the left side of the south bridge.
On an AT motherboard, the CPU will be placed in front of the expansion slots
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large empty slots waiting to be filled
NLX has expansion slots parallel to the board to allow smaller cases but may limit the number of expansion slots, rather than perpendicular like the ATX
There are no guidelines on the number of expansion slots a system can have. Depending on case style, the number can vary between zero and eight.
Unless the motherboard was specifically designed to support a riser card, you cannot add additional expansion slots to it.
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