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Aurora R4 PCIe question
I have an Aurora R4 with the X79 chipset and an ivy-bridge E processor, which supports up to 40 lanes of pcie. It has 4 pcie slots at x16, x1, x16, x1, and the bios gives me the option to support pcie gen 3.0. I know this works for the x16 cards as GPU-Z says that I am connecting at 3.0 speeds. I am currently using one x16 slot for my network card and one x16 slot for my graphics card, which is a dual slot card and obscures one of the x1 slots. This leaves a single x1 slot available.
Does anyone know which generation of PCIe the x1 slots are? I would like to install a usb3 card, and all of the cards that I can find require PCIe 2.0. I can't seem to find the specs anywhere, any knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Alienware-Joe
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October 24th, 2014 12:00
If I'm not mistaken,
-The X1 would be a 2,0
and the x16 would be the 3.0.
Let me know if you need anything else.
AuroraBorealis
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October 24th, 2014 16:00
This is just what I needed to know, thank you for your time.