AMD 880G north bridge chip has 22 PCI Express x1 lanes (the same number used on AMD 870 and AMD 890GX chipsets), with seven internal engines to control them (AMD 890GX has eight engines). ASRock 880GXH/USB3 comes with one PCI Express x16 slot, one PCI Express x1 slot and three standard PCI slots.
Figure 2: Slots.
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