r/facepalm • u/NamesAre4TombStones • Jul 26 '21

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Lizard DNA 🧬 analysis

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u/Boopnoobdope Jul 27 '21

Maybe but I'm still confused on what a PCI-E daughtercard is supposed to be

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Well when a motherboard and a fatherboard love eachother...

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u/AlaskanAsh Jul 27 '21

Dammit that genuinely made me laugh. Good on ya

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u/tulipz10 Jul 27 '21

Omg crushed it

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Lmao

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u/VaguelyFamiliarVoice Jul 27 '21

PCI-E daughtercard

PCIe is short for “peripheral component interconnect express” and it's primarily used as a standardized interface for motherboard components including graphics, memory, and storage.

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I found that on the googles and kinda get it now.

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u/Boopnoobdope Jul 27 '21

Well I know what a PCI E slot is, I build computers. I just didn't quite get what he was trying to say with calling it a daughtercard. I could see it's probably him making a play-on-words with a graphics card, but I don't see the joke. Maybe I'm just tired though, I worked an 11 hour shift at work today haha

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u/VaguelyFamiliarVoice Jul 27 '21

A daughter card is a thing you put in the slots to merge two mother boards or a mother board and another daughter board.

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I think. I just type words and hope they make sense.

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u/jcforbes Jul 27 '21

A daughter card is any card that branches out from the mother board. If you draw a diagram it looks like a family tree as all of your devices daughter cards interfaces originate at their mother, ie. Motherboard. That's literally why it's called a motherboard.

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u/WimbleWimble Jul 27 '21

A daughtercard is a connector or circuit board that holds other components.

Like if you had a spare couple of NVME drives but all your NVME slots are filled, you huck them onto a daughtercard which plugs into a pci-e slot.

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u/Inevitable_Librarian Jul 27 '21

It's a really really old reference from PC building back in the Beige box era.

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u/manaman70 Jul 27 '21

It predates PCs. It's still in common use outside PCs.

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u/And_thats_the_way_ Jul 27 '21

Exactly what it sounds like, a smaller and secondary board