
ASUS P5N-E SLI
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PCI Express x16 slot configurations
1.8.6 Two PCI Express x16 slots
This motherboard supports one PCI
Express x16 graphics card or two
SLI-ready PCI Express x16 graphic
cards that comply with the PCI
Express specifications. The figure
shows a graphics card installed on
the PCI Express x16 slot.
• In Single Card mode, only the PCI Express blue slot can be used for
PCI Express x16 graphics cards.
• In SLI mode, the PCI Express x16 slots work at the bandwidth of
PCI Express x8. The combined bandwidth of these maintain the
bandwidth of PCI Express x16.
• See the table below for possible PCI Express card configurations.
Install a rear chassis fan to the chassis (CHA_FAN) connector when using
two graphics cards for better thermal environment. See page 1-32 for
details.
EZ Selector setting
PCIEX16_1 (blue) slot
PCIEX16_2 (black) slot
Card Type
Speed Card Type Speed
Single Video Card
Qualified PCIe x16
x16
graphics card
SLI mode
Qualified SLI-ready
x8
Qualified SLI-ready
x8
Dual Video
graphics cards
graphics card
Cards
Multi-monitor,
Qualified PCIe x16
x8
Qualified PCIe x8, x4,
RAID or LAN
graphics card
graphics card, x2, x1
setup
RAID or LAN card
Содержание P5N-E SLI
Страница 1: ...Motherboard P5N E SLI ...
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Страница 15: ...1 Product introduction This chapter describes the motherboard features and the new technologies it supports ...
Страница 52: ...1 38 Chapter 1 Product introduction ...
Страница 102: ...2 50 Chapter 2 BIOS setup ...
Страница 103: ...3 Software support This chapter describes the contents of the support CD that comes with the motherboard package ...
Страница 119: ...A CPU features The Appendix describes the CPU features that the motherboard supports ...