OWC MERCURY HELIOS 3 - Usage Notes

OWC Mercury Helios 3
Introduction
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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.