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Uncommon card · Science
Peripheral Component Interconnect, an Uncommon card
Peripheral Component Interconnect is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 149
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 77,000
Power 149 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Peripheral Component Interconnect quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Peripheral Component Interconnect card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a ______ bus, synchronous to a single bus clock.
Answer
parallel. It is a parallel bus, synchronous to a single bus clock. From the Peripheral Component Interconnect article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Peripheral Component Interconnect. Peripheral Component Interconnect 84 · First aid 76 · Gas chromatography 73 · Zeno of Elea 68 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any given processor's native bus.
- Devices connected to the PCI bus appear to a bus master to be connected directly to its own bus and are assigned addresses in the processor's address space.
- It is a parallel bus, synchronous to a single bus clock.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peripheral Component Interconnect article was read about 77,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Peripheral Component Interconnect
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Deborah BirxUncommon · History · ATK 75 DEF 74
- KairouanUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 73
- Simon RattleUncommon · History · ATK 77 DEF 72
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peripheral Component Interconnect (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jonathan Zander, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
