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Z87H3-A3X USER MANUAL
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
NVIDIA
® Hybrid SLI ®
Technology Support
This motherboard supports the NVIDIA ® SLI ® Technology that allows you to install
multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. Please follow the installation
procedures in this section.
Requirements
1. Two identical SLI ® ready graphic cards are needed for the setup of 2-way SLI
configuration.
2. Make sure that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA
® SLI ® technology.
3. Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the minimum
power required by your system.
1. Install both of the NVIDIA ® SLI-Ready graphics cards.
Installing your NVIDIA ® SLI-Ready Components
For 2-way configuration, install two graphic cards on PCIEX16_1 & PCIEX16_2 and
connect them with one SLI bridge
* .
* For reference only
* The PCIEX16_2 slot supports PCI-E Gen 3.0 running at X8 mode and shares bandwidth with
the PCIEX16_1 slot.
* If installing two graphic cards into PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots, both two slots will run
at X8 mode.