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B350AM4-M USER MANUAL
2-4-4. Installing Add-on Cards
The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect
them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the
motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can
increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks
that are not part of the basic system.
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for
the card carefully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have
to manually configure the card before installation.
The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 2.0.
PCIEX1 Slot
Recommend add_on card configuration
PCIEX16_1~2 Slots The PCI Express x16 slots are used to install an external PCI
Express graphics card, one runs at x16 mode that is fully
compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 3.0,
and the other one runs at x4 mode that is fully compliant to the
PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0.
PCIEX16_1 PCIEX16_2
SPEC PCI-E Gen.3 Running x16 mode PCI-E Gen.2 Running x4 mode
1 Graphic Card (VGA card) Populated --
Model
PCIEX16 Slots
These are M.2 slots, socket 1 key A/E 2230 supports wifi + BT,
socket 3 key M 2242/2280 supports SSD (SATA).
NGFF1~2 Slots