MSI MS-7160 User Manual page 41

M S-7160 ATX M ainboard
The mainboard provides one PCI Express x 1 slot, two PCI Express x16 slots
and two 32-bit PCI bus slots.
PCI Express Slots: PCI_E1 (Primary)/ PCI _E2 (Secondary)/ PCI_E3
The PCI Express slots, as a high-bandwidth, low pin count, serial, intercon-
nect technology, support Intel highest performance desktop platforms utilizing the
Intel Pentium 4 processor with HT Technology with these platform benefits. You can
insert the expansion cards to meet your needs. W hen adding or removing expansion
cards, make sure that you unplug the power supply first.
PCI Express architecture provides a high performance I/O infrastructure for
Desktop Platforms with transfer rates starting at 2.5 Giga transfers per second over
a PCI Express x1 lane for Gigabit Ethernet, TV Tuners, 1394 controllers, and general
purpose I/O. Also, desktop platforms with PCI Express Architecture will be designed
to deliver highest performance in video, graphics, multimedia and other sophisticated
applications. Moreover, PCI Express architecture provides a high performance graphics
(PDF, 166Kb) infrastructure for Desktop Platforms doubling the capability of existing
AGP8x designs with transfer rates of 4.0 GB/s over a PCI Express x16 lane for
graphics controllers, while PCI Express x1 supports transfer rate of 250 MB/s.
You can insert expansion card to meet your needs. W hen adding or removing
expansion cards, make sure that you unplug the power supply first.
NV SLI (Scalable Link Interface) Multi-GPU Technology
NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology allows two GPUs to run in
tandem within a system to achieve up to twice the performance of a single graphics
card. To utilize this technology, the two GPU cards must be connected by an SLI
bridge card. The mainboard can auto detect the SLI mode by software, therefore
you don't have to configure the SLI mode onboard by yourself. (See "SLI Mode
Select" of Cell Menu section in BIOS for more details.) Following the process below
to complete SLI mode:
1. Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards in both PCIE x 16 slots, a bridge PCB
is used to connect the atop golden fingers of the both cards (fig.1). Please note that
you only need to connect a monitor to the Primary PCI Express card; although you
have installed two graphics cards, only the video outputs on the first card will work.
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Slots
PCI Express x1 slot
(PCI_E3)
PCI Express x16 slot
( PC I_ E1 ( Pr im ar y ) /
PCI_E2 (Secondary))