•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.

•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.

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