PCI
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- noun
- /ˈpiːˌsiːˈaɪ/
- Specialized
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PCI
- Discrete GPUs are connected through a PCI-Express bus, which has considerably lower bandwidth than GPU memory (Fig. 2).
- PCI bus
- PCI card
In this box is a PCI Express power filter card.
- In this box is a PCI Express power filter card.
- It's just if you need PCI, this is a computer for you.
- So take a standard gaming PC, there is a PCI Express card.
- Now you're probably thinking, I just slot my PCI card into the computer and it just works.
- The reason the Mac Pro exists is PCI slots.
- Instead I'd be using this PCI power.
Examples
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Here, of course, are all your expansion slots for your PCI cards, PCIe cards in this case.
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Now you're probably thinking, I just slot my PCI card into the computer and it just works.
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It's not just the chip; it has a PCI bus.
Fiction book (1995) -
In this box is a PCI Express power filter card.
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Which means you can save the PCI slot for something else, like another NIC, and so on.
Blog text (33) -
Some are designed to meet the special needs of a commercial server; others are off-the-shelf PCI cards that are common in the industry.
Academic text (2000) -
I still can't get the SATA port to work, but the PCI slot still does work.
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It allows you to expand your peripherals through PCI expansion.
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The I/O adapters in Figure 5 are standard PCI bus adapters.
Academic text (2000) -
To improve performance, ensure that the graphics card is installed in the correct PCI slot on the motherboard.
Surface Forms
Etymology
PCI comes from Peripheral Component Interconnect, where peripheral means 'extra device', component means 'a part', and interconnect means 'to connect together'. So PCI is the standard way inside a computer to connect parts like a graphics card.