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Installing the Motherboard
Installing Add-on Cards
The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect
them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the
motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can in-
crease the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are
not part of the basic system.
PCIEX1
Slot
The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI Express
graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifi-
cation revision 1.0a.
1. Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the
card carefully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have to manually
configure the card before installation.
2. FSB1333-CPU will operate in overclocking mode. Under this situa-
tion, PCIE frequency will also be overclocked from 100MHz to 125MHz.
This motherboard is equipped with three standard PCI slots. PCI stands
for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for ex-
pansion cards, which for the most part, is a supplement of the older
ISA bus standard. The PCI slots on this board are PCI v2.3 compliant.
PCI 1~3
Slots
PCI_E 1~2
Slots
The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 1.0a as well.
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