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Dell Pc cards vs express cards .. why the complication?

post #1 of 7
1/4/09 at 11:32am
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Ok
I am in the process of building a new del on the website, is has really been sometime since I did this and there seems to be alot of new technology that i am not familier with...

the first one is the graphics card.. i have 4 options...

Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD With Express Card
Mobile Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD with PC-Card
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With Express Card
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With PC-Card

Ok.. i would assume that the following cards have different perfomances, but what is the difference between a Express card and a PC card... and what is the better one to have?
And what card would be better for some gaming.. "i am a command and conquer addict"

Once i figuered this out.. i might go into my next confusing choice... LCD vsLED .. on screens...

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post #2 of 7
1/4/09 at 1:02pm
The integrated GPU's are built into the main board and cannot be replaced

The options of PC Card Vs Express card is the type of expansion card slot you want to have.

The Express card buss is faster than the PC Card - which is merely a new name for the PCMCIA card slot.

There are expansion cards you can get that plug into these slots for variety of things such as, Broadband Cards, Ext USB, Firewire, E-sata ports and so on.


I find it interesting that dell even offers the PC Card as the Express Card has become the standard in new computers.
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post #3 of 7
1/4/09 at 1:02pm
by the way which laptop are we talking about here ?
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post #4 of 7
1/4/09 at 4:54pm
yes good question lol
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post #5 of 7
1/4/09 at 5:01pm
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the machine is a dell Latitude E6400

which of the cards would be the better one?
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post #6 of 7
1/4/09 at 5:05pm
Its the Latitude E6400. The system can be optioned with two differet GPUs and also have it's expansion card optioned as well. Reason being is that the E6400 is destined for corporate fleets that may have a TON of legacy PCMCIA cards that their customers may still want to use. Hence why its the only system that even has such an option. The E6500 is sufficiently large enough to accomadate both an expresscard and PCMCIA socket.

The graphics card on the E6400 is in no way tied to that expansion slot, however it does require that one motherboard be used over another. So Dell is bundling those options in the same category to avoid extra time re-coding their web customization.
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post #7 of 7
1/5/09 at 4:00am
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Ahhh, thanks for that answer, make more sence now
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