As of right now, the fastest expansion bus found in a standard PC is a PCI-E or often seen as PCIe (PCI-E or PCIe stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express)Installing a PCIe card into your PC may be done only if the motherboards expansion slot will fit it. PCIe cards can fit into larger slots, but not smaller slots (obviously).
Yes Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) expansion bus slots, were an architecture class of expansion slot as you call it. But their were two other classes of expansion bus in use, namely: ISA and EISA. Please refer to my answer at: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_expansion_slots_called_during_the_early_PC's Michael Sharp, CEO Hostyouridea.com
Because they are designed to be both smaller and draw less power, laptops are far more limited in their expansion capabilities. In many laptops, the only form of expansion is through USB ports. Larger laptops often have a PC Card slot and / or an Mini PCI / PCI Express Mini card bus.
Address Bus - Transmits memory addresses between the CPU and RAM.Data Bus - The bus that transfers data between CPU and RAM. Expansion Bus - The bus to which add-on adapter cards are connected in order to enhance the functionality on the PC. Video - The bus that transmits display information between the CPU and video circuitry.
Expansion buses basically enable you to install additional hardware in your system unit and PC. The most common type of expansion buses today is PCI and PCIe, and AGP. You can use PCI, commonly white on your motherboard,to install network interface cards, sound cards, etc.. And you can use AGP to install high end video graphics cards, and they are commonly brown on your motherboard. PCIe is another version of PCI, but allows for faster data transfers. ISA was the first type of expansion buses, and it was developed by IBM for use in their early PC. Computerguy1984
You can add a ton of different things with PCI/PCIe expansion slots, such as: Graphics card, Sound Card, WIFI card, TV tuner and even SSD's. This list is fairly limited, there are more options, but those are the most common.
Pets is an expansion pack.
PC Card slots originally used a 16-bit ISA bus
windows of course
No.
The bus between the CPU and memory on the motherboard. Also called the memory bus, front-side bus, local bus, or host bus.
No, because the expansion packs are for PC only.