Hardware Installation

FDD Connector

The motherboard supports a standard 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44m, and a 2.88M floppy disk drive (FDD).

Expansion Slots

The NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI motherboard contains six expansion slots, four PCI Express slots and two PCI slots. For a full list of PCI Express x16 graphics card supported by this motherboard, go to www.nvidia.com/estore.

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1 – PCI slots

2 – PCIe x16 slots (3-Way SLI)

3 – PCIe x1 slot

PCI Slots

The two PCI slots support many expansion cards such as a LAN card, USB card, SCSI card and other cards that comply with PCI specifications. When installing a card into the PCI slot, be sure that it is fully seated. Secure the card’s metal bracket to the chassis back panel with the screw used to hold the blank cover.

NVIDIA Corporation

October 17, 2007 DU-03597-001_v01

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Nvidia 780I SLI manual FDD Connector, Expansion Slots, PCI Slots