A technician needs to install a new high-end graphics card. Which type of motherboard expansion slot, designated by its number of data transmission lanes (e.g., x16), will the technician most likely use?
PCI
AGP
PCIe
CNR
PCIe (PCI Express) is the modern standard for expansion slots and is designated by its number of lanes, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. A higher number of lanes provides greater bandwidth, which is critical for components like high-end graphics cards that typically use x16 slots. While the PCIe standard technically includes a x32 configuration, it is not found on common hardware. The other options are incorrect: PCI and AGP are legacy slot types that do not use this lane-based naming convention, and CNR was a specialized, obsolete riser slot.
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