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Chapter 2: Hardware information
2.5.4
PCI slots
The PCI slots support cards such as
a LAN card, SCSI card, USB card,
and other cards that comply with PCI
specifications. The figure shows a LAN
card installed on a PCI slot.
2.5.5
PCI Express x1 slot
This motherboard supports PCI Express
x1 network cards, SCSI cards and other
cards that comply with the PCI Express
specifications. The following figure
shows a network card installed on the
PCI Express x1 slot.
2.5.6
PCI Express x16 slots
This motherboard has three PCI
Express x16 slots that support PCI
Express x16 graphic cards complying
x16 graphic cards complying
with the PCI Express specifications.
the PCI Express specifications.
The blue and black slots support the
NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology at full x16,
x16 speed.
The photo shows two NVIDIA
NVIDIA
®
SLI™-
ready graphics cards installed on the blue and black slots.
The slot in the middle supports graphics cards at x8 link.
In NVIDIA
®
SLI™ mode, the blue and black slots work at the full bandwidth of
PCI Express x16 on each slot for a combined bandwidth of x32.
