Help Needed

[tonymmm1]

I bought a open box motherboard today from a pc store and one of the pci-e x16 slots was missing pins, do i have a defective motherboard.DSC_4146.NEF

[tonymmm1]

[tonymmm1]

Help would be really nice

 

[Belgarionbg]

As I see its normal for this mobo

 

 

 

 

 

[tonymmm1]

So it is actually x8

[Belgarionbg]

• Expansion Slots
  1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (blue)
  1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black)
  2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
  2 x PCI

from the specs

And yes, I think it should be rated as x8 as its missing pins.

[tonymmm1]

thank you so much  , this gave me so much relief knowing i did not need to return my motherboard

[Belgarionbg]

I remember watching a video on the very linustech channel, may be even a few on the subject of running 2 cards at x8 and the conclusion was that this is a problem only if the cards are something like gtx 980 + and equivalent amd variants.

[tonymmm1]

ok

[Belgarionbg]

Btw you can use this picture as reference if you have other doubts of missing parts or sort of.

For full size view save it on your pc and open it locally.