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Mac53
I have a gigabyte motherboard with three PCI slots, I also have one slot
which is green.
What is this green slot for?
Mac53
which is green.
What is this green slot for?
Mac53
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sillyputty
I have a gigabyte motherboard with three PCI slots, I also have one slot
which is green.
What is this green slot for?
Likely the PCI-e slot.
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Mac53
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Brian A.
What model?
Most likely it's an AGP slot which are green, although it could be a PCI Express slot
which are blue.
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Most likely it's an AGP slot which are green, although it could be a PCI Express slot
which are blue.
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Mac53
More likely it is PCI Express as you say, I thought all AGP slots were
BROWN.
Looks like I need to find the mobo model and go to gigabyte site. Thanks
heaps.
Mac53
BROWN.
Looks like I need to find the mobo model and go to gigabyte site. Thanks
heaps.
Mac53
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sillyputty
What model?
Most likely it's an AGP slot which are green, although it could be a PCI Express slot
which are blue.
The PCI-e slot on my MB is green.
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Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 939
AMD 4200+ 2.2G X2
EVGA nVidia 7600GT 256MB PCI-e
2 gigs Kingston RAM
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 wireless PCI adapter
450W PSU
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Brian A.
It could be orange as well, and from what I find Biostar uses both colors for
either AGP or PCI-e.
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either AGP or PCI-e.
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Brian A.
Mac53 said:More likely it is PCI Express as you say, I thought all AGP slots were BROWN.
Newer boards are getting colorful and Gigabyte also has brown PCI-e slots. The
only ones I saw with green slots were for AGP, you never know though.
Looks like I need to find the mobo model and go to gigabyte site. Thanks heaps.
That's the best way to find out. You're welcome.
Mac53
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Eric
Mac53 said:OK, so what's a PCI-e slot?
Mac53
PCI-(E)xpress
In a nutshell, PCI Express has a much faster transfer speed than standard
PCI. Right now, PCI Express's primary application is for video cards, but
in time it is likely everything will start appearing on PCI-E.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths
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Ken Blake, MVP
I have a gigabyte motherboard with three PCI slots, I also have one slot
which is green.
What is this green slot for?
PCI-e.
PCI-e is a different standard, both newer and faster than PCI. At the
moment, the only PCI-e cards that exist (as far as I know, are video
cards. If you use a PCI-e video card in that slot, your video will be
faster than if you used an equivalent PCI video card.