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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