Editing Motherboard (section)

===Peripheral card slots===
A typical motherboard will have a different number of connections, depending on its standard and [[computer form factor|form factor]].

A standard, modern ATX motherboard will typically have two or three [[PCI-Express]] x16 connection for a graphics card, one or two legacy PCI slots for various expansion cards, and one or two PCI-E x1 (which has superseded [[conventional PCI|PCI]]). A standard [[EATX]] motherboard will have two to four PCI-E x16 connection for graphics cards, and a varying number of PCI and PCI-E x1 slots. It can sometimes also have a PCI-E x4 slot (although this will vary between brands and models).

Some motherboards have two or more PCI-E x16 slots, to allow more than 2 monitors without special hardware, or use a special graphics technology called [[Scalable Link Interface|SLI]] (for [[Nvidia]]) and [[ATI CrossFire|Crossfire]] (for [[AMD]]). These allow 2 to 4 graphics cards to be linked together, to allow better performance in intensive graphical computing tasks, such as gaming, video editing, etc.

In newer motherboards, the [[M.2]] slots are for [[SSD]] and/or [[wireless network interface controller]].