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Step 12Installing additional cards
This is where we will install graphics cards and other cards like internet and dial-up modems.
These are pretty easy. Just push them into the slots they fit in, and screw down the one screw near the back of the case.
The graphics cards go in the PCI-Ex8 or PCI-Ex16. (See picture) If you have only one graphics card, put it in the middle PCI-E slot (PCI-Ex16). If you have 2 graphics cards, put them in the first and third slots. Then connect them with the SLI bridge that came with the motherboard.
The ethernet (broadband internet) card will go in either the PCI or the PCI-Ex1 slot.
Dial-up modems almost always go in the PCI slot.
[PCI-Ex8 and PCI-Ex16 will look exactly the same. If there are 3 slots, the middle one is PCI-Ex16]
These are pretty easy. Just push them into the slots they fit in, and screw down the one screw near the back of the case.
The graphics cards go in the PCI-Ex8 or PCI-Ex16. (See picture) If you have only one graphics card, put it in the middle PCI-E slot (PCI-Ex16). If you have 2 graphics cards, put them in the first and third slots. Then connect them with the SLI bridge that came with the motherboard.
The ethernet (broadband internet) card will go in either the PCI or the PCI-Ex1 slot.
Dial-up modems almost always go in the PCI slot.
[PCI-Ex8 and PCI-Ex16 will look exactly the same. If there are 3 slots, the middle one is PCI-Ex16]
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Jan 27, 2008. 6:53 PMchallahc
says:
The card and slots labeled older pci are actually isa, and as you point out are nearly extict.
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