....The new Z97 motherboards PCI slot placement? All of them except for the high end models have 3 effectively useless PCI-E x1 slots.... You have 2 beneath the x16 slot which will be covered by a graphics card / too close and block the graphics cards fans and you have 1 above the graphics card which cannot be a good idea if you have a nice soundcard with all the heat from GPU below it.... Now i'm going to have to sell my Xonar STX PCI-E card and buy a standard PCI one just because they put them in the most stupid places possible... Those 3 slots are basically useless and may as well not be there at all.
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