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is this a slot processor or a big gold finger card.?..it has a cpu

It is only a gold finger card.

Yep. Gold finger card. It's a video card.

thanks...i was hoping for slot...its heavy though

The reason slot processors are as high as they are is because they contain more of the chipset that is normally on the board. They have a heavy gold contact layer under the masking on the front and back (like mini/mainframe computer controllers) and the finger connection is almost 4x thicker and Has a better coverage by area.

do all slot processors look the same?..i have a few from different brand computers and they are all identical...and yes the gold fingers on bottom are thicker...you are right about thatlow dos

Like everything in computers there are exceptions-especially because "slot proceasors " are not industrially standardised but yes most are identical in appearance.
Most are long rectangles
See 1
Xeon and opteron are almost squared in shape.
See 2
Via had one that was a v shape like to short rectangles at a 75° angle (never made sense to me beyond v for via).
Some early acorn units in box form had a riser cpu that is technically a slot processor though it predates the term and Boardsort took it from me as telco. Probably to much surface area but i digress...!

So yes MOST slot proceasors look similar. And the ones that don't probably Go in another category.

thanks...a picture is worth a thousand words...good info

heres another gold finger card..the gold is really thick...had a heatsink glued to it...is that silver too?

it had an aluminum heatsink glued to the back where the silver is