Expansion Card - Expansion Card Types

Expansion Card Types

  • Video cards
  • AMR Advanced Multi Rate Codec
  • Sound cards
  • Network cards
  • TV tuner cards
  • Modems
  • Host adapters such as SCSI and RAID controllers.
  • POST cards
  • BIOS Expansion ROM cards
  • Compatibility card (legacy)
  • Physics cards. (becoming obsolete as they are integrated into video cards)
  • Disk controller cards (for fixed- or removable-media drives)
  • Interface adapter cards, including parallel port cards, serial port cards, multi-I/O cards, USB port cards, and proprietary interface cards.
  • RAM disks, e.g. i-RAM
  • Solid-state drive
  • Memory expansion cards (legacy)
  • Hard disk cards (legacy)
  • Clock/calendar cards (legacy)
  • Security device cards
  • Radio tuner cards

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