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{{Main|Expansion card}}

An [[expansion card]] in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard or backplane to add functionality to a computer system via the expansion bus. Expansion cards can be used to obtain or expand on features not offered by the motherboard.<ref>{{cncite web |title=What is an Expansion Card? |url=https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/expansion-card/ |website=Lenovo |access-date=August17 February 20242025}}</ref> Using expansion cards for a video processor used to be common, but modern computers are more likely to instead have a GPU integrated into the motherboard.{{sfn|Wang|2021|p=121}}

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