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December 10th 10, 10:01 PM
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Graphics card covers a PCIEX8_1 motherboard slot.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 and the Graphics
card is a Gigabyte GV-N480UD-15I/. On assembly of the graphics card into the recommended PCIEX16_1 motherboard slot, the rather thick graphics card completely covers the empty PCIEX8_1 slot beneath. Is there a way out of this? Can the PCIEX16_1 motherboard slot be extended away from the motherboard, via an extension cable, and the graphics card assembled elsewhere in the case? I really need ALL the slots on the motherboard. Please help, Peter 
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December 11th 10, 01:14 AM
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Graphics card covers a PCIEX8_1 motherboard slot.
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:01:31 +1100, "Peter Jason" wrote:
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 and the Graphics card is a Gigabyte GV-N480UD-15I/. On assembly of the graphics card into the recommended PCIEX16_1 motherboard slot, the rather thick graphics card completely covers the empty PCIEX8_1 slot beneath. Is there a way out of this? Can the PCIEX16_1 motherboard slot be extended away from the motherboard, via an extension cable, and the graphics card assembled elsewhere in the case? I really need ALL the slots on the motherboard. Please help, Peter Theoretically, yes, you can extend a PCI Express hose, assuming impedance matching and tight skew control. But good luck finding the bits and pieces you'd need, never mind finding some location for the kicked-out function to physically reside. Clearly, as soon as you chose a double-wide graphics solution, you pretty much cast your stone... /daytripper
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December 11th 10, 01:46 AM
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Graphics card covers a PCIEX8_1 motherboard slot.
On Dec 10, 5:01*pm, "Peter Jason" wrote:
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 and the Graphics card is a Gigabyte GV-N480UD-15I/. On assembly of the graphics card into the recommended PCIEX16_1 *motherboard slot, *the rather thick graphics card completely covers the empty PCIEX8_1 slot beneath. Is there a way out of this? *Can the PCIEX16_1 *motherboard slot be extended away from the motherboard, via an extension cable, and the graphics card assembled elsewhere in the case? * I really need ALL the slots on the motherboard. I suspect you are asking for more bandwidth than the motherboard supports. Even though there are four X16 slots, once you plug an X16 card into the board, one slot becomes unusable because, at that point, the board could be configured as X16/X16 or as X16/X8/X8, but not as anything that would use all four slots. Robert.
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