Elitegroup A990FXM-A (V1.1) - Manual (Page 17)

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A990FXM-A USER MANUAL
2-4-4. 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.
PCIEX16_1~2 Slots The PCI Express x16 slots are used to install external PCI Ex-
press graphics cards that are fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 2.0.
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the card care-
fully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have to manually configure the
card before installation.
The PCI Express x1 slots are fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 2.0. PCIE1~2 Slots
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 is PCI v2.3 compliant. PCI Slot
PCIEX16_S Slot The PCI Express x16_S slot is used to install an external PCI Ex-
press graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Gen2 (version 2.0).