ASRock 870iCafe Motherboard
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The AMD 870 chipset has 22 PCI Express x1 lanes controlled by seven engines, which is the same configuration used by the AMD 880G. The AMD 890GX has the same number of PCI Express lanes, but has eight engines to control them, but the high-end 890FX has 42 lanes controlled by 11 engines.
The ASRock 870iCafe comes with one PCI Express x16 slot, two PCI Express x1 slots, and two standard PCI slots. This configuration clearly shows that we are dealing with a mainstream motherboard.
The good news is that there is an empty space to the left of the PCI Express x16 slot, so if you install a dual-slot video card it won’t block any of the other expansion slots available.
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