mysterious orange slot

[bobthedinosaur]

i've got this k8n diamond board that came with a bluetooth/wifi card
on the board there's an orange pci slot that the manual says is the 'communications slot'

what the heck is that?

will this card work in any other slot? or only in the orange one?

thanks!

 

[Corporate Thug]

msi claims that its a pci slot optimized for a NIC but its really just a plain old pci slot

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
msi claims that its a pci slot optimized for a NIC but its really just a plain old pci slot

Plain old PCI slot but reportedly has better decoupling along the signal lines and its own non-shared IRQ line. Whether that 'report' is true, I don't know.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
msi claims that its a pci slot optimized for a NIC but its really just a plain old pci slot

Plain old PCI slot but reportedly has better decoupling along the signal lines and its own non-shared IRQ line. Whether that 'report' is true, I don't know.

Would explain why they work so well for a Sound Card.... !!