Motherboard Manual
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PEX16_1/ PEX16_2: PCI-Express Gen3 x16 (x16 / x8) (Nvidia SLI
and AMD CrossFireX) Slots
- PCI-Express 3.0 compliant.
- Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 8GB/s simultaneously per
direction, for an aggregate of 16GB/s totally.
- The speed of PEX16_1 is x16 or x8 when SLI or CFX is enabled. The
speed of PEX16_2 is x8.
- PCI-E 3.0 is supported by Core i7-3xxx / i5-3xxx CPU.
Note: For more details about Nvidia SLI and AMD CrossFireX, please access the website,
respectively: http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html, and
http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx .
PEX16_3: PCI-Express Gen2 x4 Slot
- PCI-Express 2.0 compliant.
- Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 2GB/s simultaneously per
direction, for an aggregate of 4GB/s totally.
PEX1_1/PEX1_2/PEX1_3: PCI-Express Gen2 x1 Slot
- PCI-Express 2.0 compliant.
- Data transfer bandwidth up to 500MB/s per direction; 1GB/s in total.