Expansion Slots; Installing Add-On Cards - ECS H67H2-A3 Manual

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Expansion Slots

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 in-
crease the motherboard's capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are
not part of the basic system.
PCIE16X Slot
PCIE Slot
PCIE16X_T Slot
PCI1~2 Slots
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.
The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install external PCI Express
graphics cards 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.
The PCI Express x16 slot with x4 bandwith is fully compliant
to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0.
This motherboard is equipped with two standard PCI slots. PCI
stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus stan-
dard for expansion cards, which for the most part, is a supple-
ment of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slots on this board
are PCI v2.2 compliant.
Installing the Motherboard