Packard Bell ixtreme M5801 Service Manual page 98

Installing Add-on Cards
The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to the system bus.
Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the motherboard's features and capabilities. With these
efficient facilities, you can increase the motherboard's capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks
that are not part of the basic system.
PCIE16X Slot
PCIE1X1~2 Slot
PCI Slot
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the card carefully. If the card
is not Plug and Play, you may have to manually configure the card before installation.
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The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card
that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0
The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
revision 2.0 as well.
This motherboard is equipped with one standard PCI slot. PCI stands for Peripheral
Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion cards, which for the
most part, is a supplement of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slot on this
board are PCI v2.3 compliant.