Lack of small expansion slots on some X99 motherboards ?

Ash0787 · 14 Aug 2015 at 17:37

I am looking at some of the more expensive x99 ones like the Asus Deluxe
and I see what looks like 5 graphics card slots but only one little expansion thing for sound card, wireless cards, some SSDs etc, what about people that already have sound card that they want to use ? for E-ATX size motherboards I expected to see a bit more expansion slots

stulid · 14 Aug 2015 at 17:50

Put sound cards etc into the long slots, as long as you read the info correctly on how the board shares PCI lanes between slots you can do that and not affect GFX card performance.

Ash0787 · 14 Aug 2015 at 21:11

Did not know this was possible, I thought the pins had to match the size of the hole, thanks

stulid · 14 Aug 2015 at 21:12

Nope, 1X/4X cards can go into 16X slots or ones that are 16X long (actual length) but only wired to 4X/8X etc.

C64 · 15 Aug 2015 at 21:57

I agree with this it's about time they stopped putting a pci-e x1 slot above the primary gpu slot it's useless there

Phemo · 16 Aug 2015 at 14:31

My old board had an X1 slot above my primary X16 slot. I actually used it for my sound card (SBZ) so it was sort of useful to get it up and out of the way

Not too bothered that my new board doesn't have that though as I just put it low down instead.

C64 · 17 Aug 2015 at 00:41

Phemo said:
My old board had an X1 slot above my primary X16 slot. I actually used it for my sound card (SBZ) so it was sort of useful to get it up and out of the way Not too bothered that my new board doesn't have that though as I just put it low down instead.

yes but it's more common to have board heatsinks blocking the use of a card there haven't been able to get my dx in that slot on my last 3 boards

setter · 17 Aug 2015 at 10:07

I found the top most x1 slot on an Asus p8 z77 v pro to be ideal fir a sound card. I was running sli so other available slots weren't much use. Current board wouldn't fit the card so had to sell it as I carried the gpu's over. Moving to X99 soon so should have better choice for add in cards.