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Z87H3-A3X USER MANUAL

Chapter 6

NVIDIA

Hybrid SLI

Technology Support

This motherboard supports the NVIDIA

SLI

Technology that allows you to install

multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. Please follow the installation

procedures in this section.

Requirements

1. Two identical SLI

ready graphic cards are needed for the setup of 2-way SLI

configuration.

2. Make sure that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA

SLI

technology.

3. Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the minimum

power required by your system.

1. Install both of the NVIDIA

SLI-Ready graphics cards.

Installing your NVIDIA

SLI-Ready Components

For 2-way configuration, install two graphic cards on PCIEX16_1 & PCIEX16_2 and

connect them with one SLI bridge*.

* For reference only

*The PCIEX16_2 slot supports PCI-E Gen 3.0 running at X8 mode and shares bandwidth with

the PCIEX16_1 slot.

*If installing two graphic cards into PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots, both two slots will run

at X8 mode.