Which slot should I put in PCI card in?

Finally going to migrate from my older Mac to my new Intel Mac. I'm in the process of putting my fiber channel card into my new machine so I can connect it to my Xserve Raid. As I was about to put the card in the new machine on slot #2, I noticed that slot #4 said "X4/RAID" on it. Now I'm wondering which slot I should put the card in. Does it matter? I can't find anything other then slot #1-2 are X16 and slots #3-4 are X4.
Help.

Hi
The slot you're looking at is specifically for Apple's RAID Card. In other words if you have the Card it probably won't work in any other slot than the one marked specifically for it. More information here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3514
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1346
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2838
You should be OK using the slot but if it bothers you any other slot will do.
Tony

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