A technician is upgrading a workstation for professional graphic-design work and is installing a high-performance video card. The motherboard includes the following empty expansion slots:
One PCIe x16 slot
One PCIe x4 slot
One PCIe x1 slot
One mini-PCIe slot
Which slot should the technician use to achieve the best graphics performance?
For maximum performance, a high-performance video card should be installed in a PCIe x16 slot. This interface provides 16 data lanes, offering the highest bandwidth among the available options. The PCIe x4 and PCIe x1 slots offer significantly fewer lanes and would create a performance bottleneck for a modern graphics card. A mini-PCIe slot is designed for much smaller expansion cards, such as wireless network adapters, and is not physically or electronically compatible with a standard video card.
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