PCI-e Lanes - How many do I have?
Just now, fcon said:https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/C2mxFT/asus-m5a78l-m-plususb3-micro-atx-am3-motherboard-m5a78l-m-plususb3 This is the part. Apparently A78 and AM3+.
No.
Look here: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A78LMUSB3/specifications/
The motherboard uses the AMD 760G northbridge (also named 780L by some) paired with the SB710 southbridge.
AMD 760G northbridge does this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series#760G
760G
Codenamed RS780L
Single AMD processor configuration
One physical PCIe 2.0 x16 slot and one PCIe 2.0 x4 slot, the chipset provides a total of 20 PCIe 2.0 lanes and 4 PCIe 1.1 for A-Link Express II solely in the Northbridge
Integrated graphics: Radeon HD 3000
GPU 350 MHz, memory shared DDR3 533 MHz, power consumption 5.1-6.1 W
ATI PowerPlay technology
ATI Hybrid Graphics
55 nm CMOS fabrication process manufactured by TSMC
HyperTransport 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0
Value DirectX 10.0 IGP segment
SB710
- All features from SB700
- Super I/O
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Advanced Clock Calibration for enhanced CPU overclocking
- Direct communication channel composed of six data pins which were previously reserved between the CPU and the southbridge
- Advanced Clock Calibration (Option available with AMD OverDrive software 2.1.1 and later)
SB700
- Support up to 6 SATA 3.0 Gbit/s hard disk drives, with RAID 0, 1, 10 support
- eSATA support
- 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
- Support up to 14 USB ports (12 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 1.1)
- I/O acceleration technologies
- Consumer Infrared receiver/transmitter port compatible with IrDA standards[32]
- DASH 1.0 support
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