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Old 14-02-13, 10:55 AM
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Your fps in games will go off a cliff in a 4x slot.

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What? Then not all pci xpress slots are the same.
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What? Then not all pci xpress slots are the same.
a Soundard will only ever use 1x of ''bandwidth'' (Trying to simplify this for you...)
a GPU can use 16x, so only giving it 4x to use will limit it.
Giving a soundcard 16x of bandwidth will not make any difference, since the soundcard will still only use 1x of it.

Maybe that helped a little..? :/
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Old 14-02-13, 11:58 AM
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Ok, I ll just put the x1 soundcard in the x4 slot (as shown in the image of #26).
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