Mazarine Slots

[Bykeracer]

I been looking around, thinking of building another gaming machine. I'm confused by "this board is equipped with a mazarine slot that runs at...ect. ect." What is a mazarine slot?

Is this new technology or just putting a sales pitch on old technology.

 

[Vizy]

Never heard of a mazarine slot...

 

[pies]

It could be something like a pci-express slot that runs at such and such.
You have a link?

 

[Bykeracer]

If you go to this page and then scroll down to SLOTS http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K9N2_Diamond&class=mb

 

[TFT]

Isn't mazarine a shade of blue, ie a dark blue slot as opposed to the light blue slots

 

[pies]

What thats saying is if you run 3 video cards they will run in 8x,8x,8x.
When using two card use only those two slots it says that way they'll run in 16x,16x.
Those are slots for graphics cards.

 

[StrangleHold]

Like said the Mazarine is a color of dark blue. Think MSI calls alot of there blue PCIe slots by the color of mazarine. On that board it just means the Dark Blue top main slot.

On that board if your run 3 way SLI it is 16X-8X-8X.

(when under 3 way SLI mode, it operates at 16X+8X+8X);

 

[FatalityTech]

I thought that when under 3 way SLI mode, it operates at 8X+8X+8X,

Can you explain why it would run 16X+8X+8X??

 

[StrangleHold]

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K9N2_Diamond&class=mb

They say its 16X-8X-8X in 3 way SLI. The 780a chip has support for 35 PCIe lanes so I say it can.

 

[Bykeracer]

Ok so Mazarine is just referring to the color...........I had just never heard the term before.

 

[PerryCS]

Mazerine Slots

I'm sorry but none of you are correct exactly.

A mazerine slot is a slot on the motherboard that supports the higher end video cards.

For example... a Sapphire Radeon 4870 1GB GDDR5 is a thick card that is longer than most cards. It won't fit onto a normal motherboard. The video card needs a mazerine slot to fit.

A normal non mazerine video card will fit onto any motherboard, a mazerine video card will technically fit onto any motherboard however it usually will cover up say hard drive SATA ports or something else.

A mazerine style motherboard usually has side facing SATA connectors so when the longer mazerine style video cards extend all the way over the motherboard you can still plug in your SATA devices.

If you have a mazerine style vide card make sure your case and motherboard can handle the card.

A maxerine slot is still a PCI Express Slot but the designers of the motherboard made sure these video cards will fit properly.

Hope this helps!

David Perry
Perry Computer Services
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
www.perrycs.com