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If i swap the gfx card to the other pcie slot...

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If i swap the gfx card to the other pcie slot will windows have a fit?
Basically: my gfx its currently in the uppermost pci-e on my mobo, this is causing it to restrict the airflow a bit and puts the top end of the card (the flat bit) close ot the cpu, probably raising my cpu temps. so if i move it down to a lower slot will windows go a bit nuts because when i moved my sound card to the bottom i had to reinstll software etc
 
I've never owned an SLi or Crossfire setup, so it'd actually help me if someone could answer these for me:-

a.) If you use a single card, must you use it in the top slot? (Same question the OP is asking.)

b.) If you use a Crossfire setup, must the master card go in the top slot?

Swear I have read both on this very forum, thanks in advance.
 
it dont matter which pcie slot u use as long as your mobo is set to single not sli, iv heard the slot closer to the cpu is abit faster, only thing you mite have to do is reinstall your drivers but probs not.
 
the heat pipe is the premium board.

im sure i remember reading on here that you could, but the bottom lane was only 8x instead of 16x or something like that, but didnt make much difference
 
My DFI Ultra-D worked fine with my graphics card in the bottom slot, I had moved it down for clearance of the chipset fan was minimal to say the least ;)
Just set the jumpers to SLI so I had 8x bandwidth on the bottom slot and it worked fine with no noticable performance loss.
 
change the slot it will make no difference to performance.

usuall config is x16 on upper slot and x4 on lower slot. but set it in bios to do sli and both slots will default to x8 speed which is plenty considering that agp bandwidth has not been saturated pci express at x8 will never be saturated since its a lot more than 8x agp.

should be no need to reinstall drivers or anything like that. windows will boot up fine with no problems.

EDIT: there will be a performance difference if your using a turbo cache/ hyper memory gfx card where it needs its system memory as vram. those cards are crap anyways.
 
alrighty then i have a a8nsli deluxe and full fat has done it so,,,
i guess i'll need the drivers downloaded ready to install though?
 
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