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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Webby on September 03, 2010, 01:20:40 pm
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Is the first x16 slot graphics only or could i use it for example for a framegrabber card while using the onboard video?
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You can use any PCIe card in any slot. The only thing is that some are faster than others, but in your case go ahead.
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You can only use the onboard video with the right CPU.
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You can use any PCIe card in any slot. The only thing is that some are faster than others, but in your case go ahead.
sorry but I have the same problem. I got a GA-H55M-usb3 (rev2.0) with a gainward GTX460 SE 1GB DDR5 card. the computer can boot with the card at PCI E slot near the CPU, ａｎｄ ｂｏｔｈ ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ／ｌｉｎｕｘ ｗｏｒｋｓ ｆｉｎｅ．Ｂut if I moved the card to the PCI E farer away, the broad just give a 1 long 2 short beep signaling graphic card problem ａｎｄ ｌｏａｄ ＯＳ ａｓ ｕｓｕａｌ ｗｉｔｈ ａ ｂｌａｎｋ ｓｃｒｅｅｎ． Ｉ ｈａｖｅ ｔｏ ｍｅｍｏｒｉｚｅ ａｌｌ ｔｈｅ ｋｅｙｓ ｎｅｅｄｅｄ ｔｏ ｔｕｒｎ ｏｆｆ ｉｔ． Ｔhat is really problematic. Becasue the slot near CPU is not good for cooling, I am considering to use the farer slot. Bｕｔ ｔｈｅ ｍｏｔｈｅｒ ｂｒｏａｄ ｓｅｅｍｓ ｊｕｓｔ ｄｏｅｓｎ＇ｔ ｓｕｐｐｏｒｔ ｉｔ．
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In theory the slot shjoulkd support the card as long as it has enoiugh bandwidth. Certain slots appear to be x16 but are in actual connections are a x4 or x8. All GPUs should work in an x8 slot but maybe not an x4. I have heard before that certain boards don't seem to support graphics cards in the lower slots but I can't say why that should be. :-\