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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/11/pci-e-help/#comment-28845</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Okay, looked at the specs.&lt;/p&gt;

If you go to &quot;support&quot; on that page you linked, and click &quot;Memory/Device&quot; support, it does list a bunch of video cards, but not brands I&#039;m mostly familiar with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, looked at the specs.</p>
<p>If you go to &#8220;support&#8221; on that page you linked, and click &#8220;Memory/Device&#8221; support, it does list a bunch of video cards, but not brands I&#8217;m mostly familiar with.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/11/pci-e-help/#comment-28844</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Can you list ALL the slots on the motherboard?&lt;/p&gt;

The model number of the board would be useful, too.  The &quot;switch&quot; card is a terminator card, forcing the other slot to go to 16 lanes. I&#039;m not completely clear on what that entails. Most boards in recent years have a dedicated video slot, not one of the PCI slots.

Edit: Just caught your motherboard link below. I&#039;ll take a look.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you list ALL the slots on the motherboard?</p>
<p>The model number of the board would be useful, too.  The &#8220;switch&#8221; card is a terminator card, forcing the other slot to go to 16 lanes. I&#8217;m not completely clear on what that entails. Most boards in recent years have a dedicated video slot, not one of the PCI slots.</p>
<p>Edit: Just caught your motherboard link below. I&#8217;ll take a look.</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/11/pci-e-help/#comment-28843</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A89GTD_PROUSB3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Motherboard&lt;/a&gt;

&quot;Hybrid&quot; video system. The motherboard is able to handle two video cards running in &quot;tandem&quot; hence the two slots. 

It still has onboard video.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A89GTD_PROUSB3/" rel="nofollow">Motherboard</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Hybrid&#8221; video system. The motherboard is able to handle two video cards running in &#8220;tandem&#8221; hence the two slots. </p>
<p>It still has onboard video.</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/11/pci-e-help/#comment-28841</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 02:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The card says right on it &quot;Switch&quot; and your not supposed to remove it unless you&#039;re installing another device in that slot.

I found another empty PCIe 16x slot. I&#039;ll just give that a try with a cheap video card.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The card says right on it &#8220;Switch&#8221; and your not supposed to remove it unless you&#8217;re installing another device in that slot.</p>
<p>I found another empty PCIe 16x slot. I&#8217;ll just give that a try with a cheap video card.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/11/pci-e-help/#comment-28835</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most desktops I&#039;ve built have two options for graphics.&lt;/p&gt;

There&#039;s an onboard graphics system built into most motherboards that will handle basic graphics for people who don&#039;t use software that requires high-end graphics capacity.  If your primary computer use is e-mail, Word, and things like that, you can get by with this.

Also on the motherboard will be one or more slots for an additional graphics card. In many cases, the slots are specifically designed for them. You can buy graphics cards that are better than what the motherboard system can deliver, or for real fanatics, much better. I&#039;ve seen gaming systems with two or more heavy-duty cards running together. These handle the massive requirements of real-time 3D manipulation and coloring without having to rely on the main processor. Most such cards have their own cooling fans.

Odds are the card in that slot isn&#039;t a graphics card. All graphics cards have their own ports that plug into the displays, some of them with several options.

If you can find out the motherboard part number or type, I can give you more useful information.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most desktops I&#8217;ve built have two options for graphics.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s an onboard graphics system built into most motherboards that will handle basic graphics for people who don&#8217;t use software that requires high-end graphics capacity.  If your primary computer use is e-mail, Word, and things like that, you can get by with this.</p>
<p>Also on the motherboard will be one or more slots for an additional graphics card. In many cases, the slots are specifically designed for them. You can buy graphics cards that are better than what the motherboard system can deliver, or for real fanatics, much better. I&#8217;ve seen gaming systems with two or more heavy-duty cards running together. These handle the massive requirements of real-time 3D manipulation and coloring without having to rely on the main processor. Most such cards have their own cooling fans.</p>
<p>Odds are the card in that slot isn&#8217;t a graphics card. All graphics cards have their own ports that plug into the displays, some of them with several options.</p>
<p>If you can find out the motherboard part number or type, I can give you more useful information.</p>
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