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Chapter 1: Product introduction

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2. ASMedia

Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E3E4; SATAEXPRESS_E1)

These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6 Gb/s

signal cables.

• The ASMedia storage controller can only support AHCI mode.

• These SATA ports are for data drives only.

• The PCIE_X4_1 (gray) slot shares bandwidth with the PCIE_X1_1 slot, USB3_E910

and SATAExpress_E1 connector. When the PCIE_X4_1 slot is occupied by an X1

or X2 device, the SATAEXPRESS_E1 will be disabled. When the PCIE_X4_1 slot

is occupied by X4 device, both the SATAEXPRESS_E1, USB3_E910 ports, and the

PCIE_X1_1 slot will be disabled.

3. ROG Extension connector (18-1 pin ROG_EXT)

This connector is for the OC Panel and other ROG accessories supporting the ROG_

EXT connector.