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Harkoliar · 06-05-2007, 04:17 AM

I was looking at this motherboard and I have come across Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe. This mother board features two PCIe x16 slots for video accelerators, one PCIe x4 slot and three standard PCI slots. For USB and Firewire connectivity, we have the four integrated USB ports, and three headers to support six more USB ports. A single Firewire (IEEE1394) port is on the motherboard and a header for a second port is available on the board as well. The bundle includes three add on brackets for the user: One with two USB ports, one with a Firewire port and one with two eSATA ports, as well as a molex power port.

link is here
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/...tml#navigation

So my question is this, how do you utilize the two PCIe X16 slots? Can I just use one video card, "GeForce 8600 GTS"? And in the future, for expandability, do I include another GeForce 8600 GTS in the 2nd PCIe video slot? Im confused.

06-05-2007, 04:17 AM	#1
Harkoliar Jack Burton Join Date: March 21, 2001 Location: Philippines, but now Harbor City Sydney Age: 42 Posts: 5,556	I was looking at this motherboard and I have come across Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe. This mother board features two PCIe x16 slots for video accelerators, one PCIe x4 slot and three standard PCI slots. For USB and Firewire connectivity, we have the four integrated USB ports, and three headers to support six more USB ports. A single Firewire (IEEE1394) port is on the motherboard and a header for a second port is available on the board as well. The bundle includes three add on brackets for the user: One with two USB ports, one with a Firewire port and one with two eSATA ports, as well as a molex power port. link is here http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/...tml#navigation So my question is this, how do you utilize the two PCIe X16 slots? Can I just use one video card, "GeForce 8600 GTS"? And in the future, for expandability, do I include another GeForce 8600 GTS in the 2nd PCIe video slot? Im confused. __________________ Catch me if you can..