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paired with NVMe SSDs, this standard offers substantially faster transfer speeds
and seek time than SATA interface standards. All M.2 devices are designed to
connect via a card-bus style connector, secured by bolting into place, and
powered by the connector – rather than a dedicated data cable and power cable.
This slot supports device lengths of 110mm, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm.
11. PCIe Slot x16/x8*
Alder Lake-S processors have 20 PCIe lanes available for routing.
Up to x16 Gen5 PCIe lanes are pulled from the CPU and shared with the x8
PCIe slot 2 (PE2). Lanes automatically switch from x16/x0 to x8/x8 when the
motherboard detects a card in slot PE2.
* Please see the description for Physical (length) vs Electrical (lanes) on Page 21.
12. PCIe Slot x8*
PCIe x16/x8 slots are primarily for video cards. These full-length slots will
provide up to 8 lanes of bandwidth to a full-size card, and are backwards
compatible with x8, x4, and x1 length cards.
This slot is limited to a maximum of 8 lanes because it shares bandwidth with
the primary PCIe x16 slot 1 (PE1). This slot is primarily recommended for
secondary video cards, such as the 2
nd
card in a SLI configuration, a capture
card, audio card, etc.
* Please see the description for Physical (length) vs Electrical (lanes) on Page 21.
13. PCIe Slot x4*
PCIe x4 is a smaller form-factor PCIe card slot. These can be used for low-
bandwidth products, such as a PCIe SSD card, capture card, audio card, etc.
This slot is limited to a maximum of x4 Gen3 CPU lanes, as it shares bandwidth
with the third M.2 Key-M (PM3). This slot is primarily recommended for
capture cards, audio cards, etc.
* Please see the description for Physical (length) vs Electrical (lanes) on Page 21.
14. ARGB LED Controller Header
The ARGB header is a 5V. 3 pin header with a current limit of 2A; anything
above 2A will trigger overcurrent protection and lock at 2A. This header allows
for far more flexibility to configure RGB lighting via EVGA ELEET X1 within
Windows, and supports up to 125 LEDs. Please see Page 42 for header
specifics, and Page Error! Bookmark not defined. for control options in
ELEET X1.
