Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  exclusion(Noun) The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. 2  exclusion(Noun) The act of pushing or forcing something out. 3  exclusion(Noun) An item not covered by an insurance policy.
The Peripheral Component Interconnect or more commonly known as PCI is a standard for connecting a lot of devices inside your computer to extend its capabilities. Devices like sound cards, modems, NIC, TV Tuners, and some video cards have at some point or another have used the PCI port. The latest version of PCI known as PCI express is a much improved version in terms of speed. PCIe uses a serial interface instead of the old parallel interface used by PCI. It also utilizes individual buses for each of the devices connected to it instead of a shared one like what PCI uses.
X99 has doubled the available bandwidth for compatible drives. PCIe x16: 16 refers to the number of PCIe lanes, and thus the bandwidth, available to a device plugged into a PCI Express x16 slot on a motherboard.In multi-GPU setups the available lanes will be split between the cards.ou have the full X99 complement of eight memory slots for your quadchannel DDR4, and both M.2 x4 and a pair of SATA Express ports as well. But you also get a further eight SATA 6Gbps ports, ten USB 3.0ports on the rear, with headers on the board for a further four, and five PCIe 3.0 x16 slots.