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OWC Mercury Helios 3

Introduction

1.4 Usage Notes

• The OWC Mercury Helios 3 is designed to support PCIe cards with the following maximum dimensions:

• Half Length (HL)

• Full Height (FH)

• Double Width (DW)

• The Helios 3 is not compatible with OWC Mercury Accelsior Pro Q SSDs.

• Supports PCIe 3.0 x16 cards (x4 link speed)

• Backward-compatible with PCIe 2.0 or 1.x cards

• PCIe card must operate without a driver or have a Thunderbolt-aware driver.

• Graphics cards (GPUs) are not supported.

• The auxiliary power connector (mounted on the back of the circuit board, right side), provides up to 30W

additional power for cards that require it.

• Supports single or dual display congurations via Thunderbolt 3 and/or mini DisplayPort

• When using dual displays: supports one display up to 4K @ 60Hz and a second display up to 1080p

@ 60Hz

• Mini DisplayPort does not support DP++. An active adapter is required for use with HDMI and DVI

displays.

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