Expansion Slots - Biostar B350GT5 Manual

2.5 Expansion Slots

PCI1/PCI2: Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots
• The PCI slots support cards used in PCs include: LAN cards, sound cards, modems, TV
tuner cards and other cards that comply with PCI standard.
PEX16_1: PCI-Express Gen3 x16 Slot (x16 speed)
(APU / NPU @x8 speed, Ryzen @x16 speed)
• PCI-Express 3.0 compliant.
• Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 16GB/s simultaneously per direction, for an
aggregate of 32GB/s totally.
PEX16_SB_1: PCI-Express Gen2 x16 Slot (x4 speed)
• PCI-Express 2.0 compliant.
• Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 2GB/s simultaneously per direction, for an
aggregate of 4GB/s totally.
PEX1_1/1_2: PCI-Express Gen2 x1 Slot
• PCI-Express 2.0 compliant.
• Data transfer bandwidth up to 500MB/s per direction; 1GB/s in total.
PCIE-M2_1: M.2 (Key M) Slot
(M.2 (32Gb/s) : The bandwidth is depended on CPU, Ryzen is 32Gb/s ; APU & NPU is
16Gb/s)
• The M.2 slot supports M.2 Type 2242/2260/2280 SSD module. When installing M.2 SSD
module, please place the screw and hex pillar to correct position.
• Support M.2 SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4
(32Gb/s).
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