- Nov 24, 2014
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I'm getting an air cooler for my CPU (Noctua NH-D15) and I was wondering what the implications of the cooler blocking the first PCI slot on my Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3 motherboard would be. The first slot appears to be PCIEX16, whereas the second appears to be PCIEX4. Will my GPU (ASUS GTX 670) experience significant slowdowns if I put it in the second slot?
There's also this little tidbit on the gigabyte website on the MB product page that I'm confused on. * When the PCIEX1_2 or PCIEX1_3 slot is populated with an expansion card, the PCIEX4 slot will operate at up to x1 mode. Does this mean that if I slip my GPU into the second PCI slot, it will actually run at x1 as opposed to x4?
There's also this little tidbit on the gigabyte website on the MB product page that I'm confused on. * When the PCIEX1_2 or PCIEX1_3 slot is populated with an expansion card, the PCIEX4 slot will operate at up to x1 mode. Does this mean that if I slip my GPU into the second PCI slot, it will actually run at x1 as opposed to x4?
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