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Asus M2N32 WS Professional User Manual

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ASUS M2N32 WS Professional

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• In Single Card mode, you may use either the blue or black slot for PCI

Express x16 graphics cards.

• In SLI mode, the PCI Express x16 slots work at the full bandwidth of PCI

Express x16 on each slot for a combined bandwidth of x32.

• Due to NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x16 chipset limitation, if you install a Dual-GPU

graphics card on the blue x16 slot, it runs at x8 speed for one of the two

GPUs.

• Due to NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x16 chipset limitations, this motherboard does

not support two dual-GPU graphics cards (total 4 GPUs) running in SLI

mode.

• Connect a rear chassis fan to the chassis (CHA_FAN1 or CHA_FAN2)

connector when using two graphics cards for better thermal environment.

See page 2-33 for details.

• In single card mode, you may use either the blue or black slot for PCI

Express x16 cards.

• In NVIDIA

®

SLI™ mode, the PCI Express x16 slots work at the full

bandwidth of PCI Express x16 for a combined bandwidth of x32.

• We recommend that you provide sufficient power when running NVIDIA

®

SLI™ mode. See page 2-31 for details.