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Motherboard User’s Guide
Expansion Slots
This motherboard has one PCI Express x16, one PCI Express x1 and two 32-bit
PCI slots.
Serial ATA Devices
The
Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)
is the standard interface for
the IDE hard drives, which is designed to overcome the design limitations while
enabling the storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC
platforms. It provides you a faster transfer rate of
1.5 Gb/s
. If you have installed a
Serial ATA hard drive, you can connect the Serial ATA cables to the Serial ATA hard
drive or the connector on the motherboard.
On the motherboard, locate the Serial ATA connectors
SATA1-2
, which support
new Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer rates, simpler disk drive cabling
and easier PC assembly.
It eliminates limitations of the current Parallel ATA interface, but maintains register
compatibility and software compatibility with Parallel ATA.