What does this word mean in motherboard?

[ashwin18ojha]

My motherboard is MSI-7529. I was seeing my motherboard`s specs and there this things had written. Look in the picture.

Tell me, What`s the meaning of the word means I`m talking about the word that`s underlined.

here is link of image https://ibb.co/hTB9Zw

And yes what does this things means that

" There are 0 PCIe x16 slots on this motherboard. This means a graphics cards will have to be placed in a smaller PCIe slot, which will significantly and detrimentally affect its performance potential, limiting it to the bandwidth of that particular slot. In addition, the graphics card interface revision should be as close as possible to the motherboard's VGA graphics card interface in order to maximize the potential of both the motherboard and the graphics card." Does this mean that there is no PCI-E(x16) slot and Can`t I put any graphics card into it?

*****Sorry for messy English***** I hope you understand.

Thanks!

 

[maruniverse7]

I was seeing my motherboard`s specs and there this things had written. Look in the picture.

Tell me, What`s the meaning of the word means I`m talking about the word that`s underlined.

here is link of image https://ibb.co/hTB9Zw


Thanks!

That just means the number of slots, slot speed, and bus version

 

[canadianvice]

Specifically, you have One slot on your motherboard that is a PCI-E slot, running in a x1 lane configuration, using PCI-E protocols version 2.0.

For comparison, say you have a desktop with a modern motherboard, you'd be looking to put your graphics card in:

One of the 2x (so two physical slots) of PCI-E (protocol/port type) x16 (16 lane data bus. This is the long slot you see on your mobo that isn't the ram, usually) on a PCI-E version 2.0 slot type.

Marked as:

2x PCI-E x16 2.0

When talking about PCI-E in particular, you can literally think of the lane count (x1, x8, x16, usually) as being sort of like a highway.

What your motherboard is telling you is that because you only have a x1 slot, your graphics card has to try and force all its cars through on a single lane! As you can probably appreciate, you could get a lot more cars moved through if you had 16 or 8 lanes to move them on!

Your motherboard seems pretty old... but it does specifically mention "Crossfire" support, which is a graphics card technology, and this suggests you could put at least one graphics card in it.

Based just on the specs, it would seem you only have one PCIE slot, which could be used for other things. Honestly, the easiest way to check is to just take a look at your motherboard. A x16 slot is pretty long and distinctive.