What is this Green slot

[Mac53]

I have a gigabyte motherboard with three PCI slots, I also have one slot
which is green.
What is this green slot for?

Mac53

 

[sillyputty]

I have a gigabyte motherboard with three PCI slots, I also have one slot
which is green.
What is this green slot for?

Likely the PCI-e slot.

 

[Mac53]

Likely the PCI-e slot.

OK, so what's a PCI-e slot?

Mac53

 

[Brian A.]

What model?
Most likely it's an AGP slot which are green, although it could be a PCI Express slot
which are blue.

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[Mac53]

More likely it is PCI Express as you say, I thought all AGP slots were
BROWN.
Looks like I need to find the mobo model and go to gigabyte site. Thanks
heaps.

Mac53

 

[sillyputty]

What model?
Most likely it's an AGP slot which are green, although it could be a PCI Express slot
which are blue.

The PCI-e slot on my MB is green.
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Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 939
AMD 4200+ 2.2G X2
EVGA nVidia 7600GT 256MB PCI-e
2 gigs Kingston RAM
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 wireless PCI adapter
450W PSU

 

[Brian A.]

It could be orange as well, and from what I find Biostar uses both colors for
either AGP or PCI-e.

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[Brian A.]

More likely it is PCI Express as you say, I thought all AGP slots were BROWN.

Newer boards are getting colorful and Gigabyte also has brown PCI-e slots. The
only ones I saw with green slots were for AGP, you never know though.

Looks like I need to find the mobo model and go to gigabyte site. Thanks heaps.

That's the best way to find out. You're welcome.

Mac53

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[Eric]

OK, so what's a PCI-e slot?

Mac53

PCI-(E)xpress

In a nutshell, PCI Express has a much faster transfer speed than standard
PCI. Right now, PCI Express's primary application is for video cards, but
in time it is likely everything will start appearing on PCI-E.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have a gigabyte motherboard with three PCI slots, I also have one slot
which is green.
What is this green slot for?

PCI-e.

PCI-e is a different standard, both newer and faster than PCI. At the
moment, the only PCI-e cards that exist (as far as I know, are video
cards. If you use a PCI-e video card in that slot, your video will be
faster than if you used an equivalent PCI video card.