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T tikibars Tiki Socialite Aku Hall, Chicago Joined: Apr 11, 2002 Posts: 2034	T tikibars Posted posted on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 4:51 PM On 2005-10-20 16:18, Tangaroa wrote: Jwhat is a PCI card? There are three slots inside your computer that look like the slots that you plug RAM into, only they're much bigger. They're called PCI slots. You can put all sorts of cards (they look like circuit boards, or like much, much bigger RAM memory chips) into these slots to expand your computer's functionality. You can get video cards, audio cards, SCSI cards, graphics cards, lots of other stuff. They were called NuBus cards on the ancient Macs, and in the very newest Macs they've gone to a newer system called PCI-X. If you have a G3/G4/older G5, you need PCI, not PCI-X. [ Edited by: hanford_lemoore - Fixed BBcode - 2005-10-20 17:50 ]

On 2005-10-20 16:18, Tangaroa wrote:
Jwhat is a PCI card?

There are three slots inside your computer that look like the slots that you plug RAM into, only they're much bigger.

They're called PCI slots.

You can put all sorts of cards (they look like circuit boards, or like much, much bigger RAM memory chips) into these slots to expand your computer's functionality.

You can get video cards, audio cards, SCSI cards, graphics cards, lots of other stuff. They were called NuBus cards on the ancient Macs, and in the very newest Macs they've gone to a newer system called PCI-X. If you have a G3/G4/older G5, you need PCI, not PCI-X.

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore - Fixed BBcode - 2005-10-20 17:50 ]

Post #193918 by tikibars on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 4:51 PM