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PCI-E 16x card in a 1x slot? may have to do it...

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2012/04/05 05:35:41 (permalink)
Anyone modify their PCI-E 1x slot so it can fit a 16x card? i.e. make it open ended...
 
I have a unique situation... I have a evga classified 3x mobo, 3 680's on the way and a 520GT to drive my side monitors...
 
from the manual:

it utterly baffles me why it is done this way (i.e. why 2 and 3 aren't 16x)... so because of this I have 2 options:
-Run 16x, 8x, 8x (2,3,6 for the 680's and 5 for the gt520)
-Modify my pci-e 1x slot to fit my gt520 and run 16x,8x,16x for my tri sli (and will allow me to use the sexy ek bridges for the tri sli watercooled setup).

i7 990x @ 4.5GHz, tri sli GTX680 SC's, on water
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    Re:PCI-E 16x card in a 1x slot? may have to do it... 2012/04/05 06:17:37 (permalink)
    just found this: http://www.amazon.com/Zot...2MB-DDR3/dp/B006P15UO4

    I will give this a go... no modifying!

    i7 990x @ 4.5GHz, tri sli GTX680 SC's, on water
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