Description
| AGP (graphics card slot) | |
| Graphics cards are available with AGP and PCIe connectors. The Accelerated Graphics Port is a connector that connects the graphics card directly to the motherboard. | |
| AGP 8 x offers the fastest data transfer, but is only used in older computers. Newer computers are usually equipped with a PCI-Express slot. | |
| PCIe (PCI-Express) | |
| Abbreviation for Pperipheral Component Interconnect Express; often abbreviated to PCIe: an extension of the PCI standard, mainly used as a successor to the AGP slot in the area of PC graphics cards. | |
| Older plug-in cards cannot be used on the faster PCI Express slots. In notebooks, the PCI Express Mini slot is the successor to the Mini PCI cards. |
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