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Your PC's unused PCIe slot beats M.2 for expansion — and it's not even close

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Your PC's unused PCIe slot beats M.2 for expansion — and it's not even close
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Expansion cards don't usually get tons of attention, but they are some of the most valuable and affordable upgrades you can make to your PC. Instead of buying a new motherboard to get features or ports absent on your existing one, you can often achieve the same result with an expansion card. Your motherboard offers primarily two types of ports for adding an expansion card: PCIe and M.2. While both use the same PCIe bus to communicate with the system, PCIe ports offer practical advantages over M.

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