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What slot is this? (Rather old motherboard)

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The white ports are PCI ports, yes you can put a graphics card in them but it will not be powerful by any stretch of the imagination.. You will be going back to the cards of 8-10 years ago.

 

The black ports, they are ISA ports.  Sorry a GPU in here would be of next to no use either.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture

 

They got replaced by PCI ports for additional performance, PCI got replaced by AGP for graphics cards and then later on AGP was replaced by PCI-E and since then PCI has slowly started to be binned off.

 

 

Im trying to identify these old white connectors on the motherboard, and hoping its for a gpu

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The white ports are PCI ports, yes you can put a graphics card in them but it will not be powerful by any stretch of the imagination.. You will be going back to the cards of 8-10 years ago.

 

The black ports, they are ISA ports.  Sorry a GPU in here would be of next to no use either.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture

 

They got replaced by PCI ports for additional performance, PCI got replaced by AGP for graphics cards and then later on AGP was replaced by PCI-E and since then PCI has slowly started to be binned off.

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Falconevo said:

The white ports are PCI ports, yes you can put a graphics card in them but it will not be powerful by any stretch of the imagination.. You will be going back to the cards of 8-10 years ago.

 

The black ports, they are ISA ports.  Sorry a GPU in here would be of next to no use either.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture

 

They got replaced by PCI ports for additional performance, PCI got replaced by AGP for graphics cards and then later on AGP was replaced by PCI-E and since then PCI has slowly started to be binned off.

 

 

PCI still has its use, for instance it can still hold quite good wireless cards such as the TL-WN851ND, nonetheless yes it is a dying port, finding hardware compatible with it is harder by the day.

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They are pci ports. Unfortunatly graphics cards for that standard are long gone. The black ones are isa slots and they are also long gone as well...

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technically those are 16-bit ISA ports. 
ISA ports came in 8 bit variety as well (which was a shorter slot).

 

You would need a graphics card like this one  (good luck finding one - they sell used for $100-$200 USD)

 

ATI_VGA_Wonder_16.jpg

 

I'm not an expert! In fact I'm usually just 1 google search ahead of you. 

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