Agp (Accelerated Graphics Port) Slot; Pci (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Slots; Cnr (Communication Network Riser) Slot - Biostar M7VIG User Manual

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1.5.1 AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) Slot

Unlike the mouse ports, keyboard ports and printer ports, this motherboard does not
have built in video facilities; and therefore, requires a video card for one of the
expansion slots.
motherboard supports video cards for PCI and ISA slots, but is also equipped with
an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP). An AGP card will take advantage of AGP
technology for improved video efficiency and performance, especially with 3D
graphics.

1.5.2 PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Slots

This motherboard is equipped with 3 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for Peripheral
Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion cards supplanted the
older ISA bus standard in most parts. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits.

1.5.3 CNR (Communication Network Riser) Slot

The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture, and defines a
hardware scalable riser card interface, which only supports audio, network and
modem.
Your monitor will attach directly to that video card.
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