Two Pci Express X16 Slots - Asus P5NT - WS AiLifestyle Series Motherboard Installation Manual

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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.
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.
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PCI Express x16 slot configurations
EZ Selector setting
Single Video Card
Dual Video
Cards
1-24
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.
PCIEX16_1 (blue) slot
Card Type
Qualified PCIe x16
graphics card
SLI mode Qualified SLI-ready
graphics cards
Qualified PCIe x16
Multi-monitor,
graphics card
RAID or LAN
setup
PCIEX16_2 (black) slot
Speed Card Type
x16 Qualified RAID or
LAN card
x8 Qualified SLI-ready
graphics card
x8 Qualified PCIe
graphics card,
RAID or LAN card
Chapter 1: Product introduction
Speed
x1
x8
x8, x4,
x2, x1