Chapter 2
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B85H3-M USER MANUAL
2-4-4. 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
increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks
that are not part of the basic system.
This motherboard is equipped with one standard PCI slot. PCI
stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus
standard for expansion cards, which for the most part, is a
supplement of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slot on this
board is PCI v3.0 compliant.
PCI1 Slot
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.
The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 2.0.
PCIE1 Slot
Recommend add_on card configuration
PCIEX16 Slot
The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI Ex-
press graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 3.0.
PCIEX16_S1 Slot
This slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
revision 2.0 which runs at x4 mode.
PCIEX16
PCIEX16_S
1
SPEC
PCI-E Gen.3 Running x16 mode PCI-E Gen.2 Running x4 mode
Color
Gray
Black
1 Graphic Card (VGA card)
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Model
PCIEX16 Slots