Hello, I'm in abit of a situation here. I'm currently running a GTX 660Ti on a ASUS P8Z77-V motherboard and I also have a Creative Sound Blaster Z card.
My graphics card is placed in the main PCI-3 16x slot, while the Sound Blaster card is placed right above it in a PCI 1x slot. The problem I have is that there is like under 1cm space between the two cards, so I was wondering if I could actually place the sound card in the secound PCI-3 slot, but that would mean I'd only get 8x, 8x bandwidth, I know this has no influence with the sound card, but for the Graphics Card, would this have an inpact on my performance, running it as 8x instead of 16x?
I also have a PCI-2 16x slot all the way at the bottom as you can see in this picture here: http://cdn.overclock.net/1/1a/1a549c4a_13-131-819-Z03.jpeg
Could I place the sound card here? Without losing the 16x capability on my Graphics Card?
My graphics card is placed in the main PCI-3 16x slot, while the Sound Blaster card is placed right above it in a PCI 1x slot. The problem I have is that there is like under 1cm space between the two cards, so I was wondering if I could actually place the sound card in the secound PCI-3 slot, but that would mean I'd only get 8x, 8x bandwidth, I know this has no influence with the sound card, but for the Graphics Card, would this have an inpact on my performance, running it as 8x instead of 16x?
I also have a PCI-2 16x slot all the way at the bottom as you can see in this picture here: http://cdn.overclock.net/1/1a/1a549c4a_13-131-819-Z03.jpeg
Could I place the sound card here? Without losing the 16x capability on my Graphics Card?
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