How to Use expansion card in a Sentence

expansion card

noun
  • Scores of third-party vendors sprang up to make expansion cards.
    — Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Lego provided an expansion card that fit inside the Apple II.
    — Jeffrey Brace, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Nov. 2016
  • However, choosing an expansion card that doesn’t take a toll on load times or frame rates is imperative for your gaming performance.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • However, choosing an expansion card that doesn’t impact load times or frame rates is imperative for your gaming performance.
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
  • This concept eventually turned into an expansion card for the Apple IIe.
    — Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since the input port is mounted to a removable slot panel, those who’d like to put an actual expansion card in their motherboard’s lowest slot can reposition this connector to a different empty slot.
    — PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The expansion cards snap into the system’s empty bays with USB Type-C connections (with different ports on the other end facing the user), and tiles pop in and out of the front panel’s grid.
    — PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This Seagate Xbox Series X|S storage expansion card provides 1TB of storage for your console, holding your extra games and media.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 23 Apr. 2026
  • When vertical mounting your GPU and using the riser assembly, the case can hold only one full-height PCI Express expansion card, but that card’s cooling solution can be up to four slots thick.
    — PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This laptop also uses Framework’s signature expansion cards, removable and swappable USB-C header modules containing ports such as USB-C, HDMI, and Ethernet connections, among others.
    — PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025

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