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when looking at a Motherboard the slots are usually as follows: 4-8 inch cream coloured slot is usually a 32 or 64 bit PCI slot Long 8 inch Blank slot is a ISA slot (not many around these days) A Short 2-3 inch black slot is usually a PCI Express slot (usually PC less than 2 years old will have these)

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