Biostar TPOWER I45 Setup Manual page 14

Motherboard Manual
PEX16_1: PCI-Express Gen2 x16(x16/CrossFire x8 Speed) Slot
PCI-Express 2.0 compliant.
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- Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 8GB/s(4GB/s CrossFire)
simultaneously per direction, for an aggregate of 16GB/s(8GB/s CrossFire)
totally.
- PEX16_1 slot is reserved for graphics or video cards. The design of this
motherboard supports dual PCI-Express graphics cards using CrossFire
technology with multiple displays. When using CrossFire, this slot is master
and runs with x8 speed.
To configure for CrossFire, please refer to the instructions of configuring
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JPE1~JPE9.
PEX16_2: PCI-Express Gen2 x16(NC/CrossFire x8 Speed) Slot
- PCI-Express 2.0 compliant.
Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 4GB/s simultaneously per
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direction, for an aggregate of 8GB/s totally.
- PEX16_2 slot is reserved for graphics or video cards. The design of this
motherboard supports dual PCI-Express graphics cards using CrossFire
technology with multiple displays. This slot is slave when using CrossFire. If
PEX16_1 is set to x16 speed, then PEX16_2 would not be functional.
PEX1_1/PEX1_2: PCI-Express x1 Slots
- PCI-Express 1.0a compliant.
Data transfer bandwidth up to 250MB/s per direction; 500MB/s in total.
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- PCI-Express supports a raw bit-rate of 2.5Gb/s on the data pins.
- 2X bandwidth over the traditional PCI architecture.
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PEX1_2
PEX16_1
PEX1_1
PEX16_2