Quote Originally Posted by louiscar View Post
Hi everyone,

Can I ask a fairly simple question regarding the p6T? I am being told by the people supplying a system with this board that the pci-e x16 slots can only be used for graphic cards.

My understanding is that pci-e is downward compatible so if only putting one graphic card into the blue slot I should be able to use slot 2 and 3 for other pci-e devices but these people are adamant about their advice.

It would be huge disadvantage with this board if the only expansion slots available are 1 pci slot (the other gets blocked by the graphic card) and 1 x4 pci-e.

I'd appreciate a confimation from you guys particularly anyone that has used or tried to use a pci-e x16 for anything else as I can't get through to Asus and the manual is not clear either way about the issue.

A PCIE slot is a PCIE slot. The top two slots, at least on the P6T (not deluxe or anything) are 16x, it's possible I suppose that if you installed an 8x or slower card in one it might slow the other down, but I've not seen anything that claims that anywhere.