Help with Crossfire with soundcard

[redkorss]

Hello, so this is not an intimidate issue, but one I discovered when putting in my sound card today.
The PCIE slot is covered by the bottom half of the GPU, so if I were to add a second GPU, I would have to remove the sound card. Probably should have gone over the access points myself but as it was my first build I looked it over at PC Part Picker and let it see if it was a fit.

MOBO: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H
GPU: MSI Radeon R7 370 4GB
Sound Card: Asus Xonar DX 24-bit 192 KHz

Note, I'd probably have to get a new MOBO when upgrading the GPU anyway's as I'd probably need a better CPU by then. Just checking incase I'm just missing something for this type of setup and trying to improve my PC building knowhow.
Cheers

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Unless you're an absolute audiophile the mobo's onboard sound is enough, ergo you don't need a sound card.

 

[redkorss]

Unless you're an absolute audiophile the mobo's onboard sound is enough, ergo you don't need a sound card.

Already have the sound card. And even without a 7.1 headset or sound system. I can hear the difference. Not saying the onboard was bad. Just wanted something a bit better. The sound on the sound card at 50% was like the onboard at 100%. Putting it up to 100% really just cleared up the sound more. Just tested it with music so far, and not with games or video. But a nice improvement nonetheless.

But as I said, I'll likely want to upgrade my CPU when I upgrade my GPU, so there won't be any actual issue with it in a good while. Just to see if there was any workarounds for this current config if I found I didn't need the CPU boost or I am missing something.

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Unless you're an absolute audiophile the mobo's onboard sound is enough, ergo you don't need a sound card.

Already have the sound card. And even without a 7.1 headset or sound system. I can hear the difference. Not saying the onboard was bad. Just wanted something a bit better. The sound on the sound card at 50% was like the onboard at 100%. Putting it up to 100% really just cleared up the sound more. Just tested it with music so far, and not with games or video. But a nice improvement nonetheless.

But as I said, I'll likely want to upgrade my CPU when I upgrade my GPU, so there won't be any actual issue with it in a good while. Just to see if there was any workarounds for this current config if I found I didn't need the CPU boost or I am missing something.

I'm fairly certain there's PCI to PCIe adapter cards but those will kinda put your sound card a little far from the motherboard. There's also PCIe risers you could use if your case has more than 4 expansion card slots but doing that if you had a second GPU would be incredibly awkward. But you can actually fix this right now if you just place your GPU in the bottom PCIe x16 slot. AMD GPUs can run at PCIe x4 with no performance loss (the only case where performance loss was observed due to running x4 was with an R9 295X2, and nVidia GPUs simply won't run at anything less than x8).

 

[redkorss]

Unless you're an absolute audiophile the mobo's onboard sound is enough, ergo you don't need a sound card.

Already have the sound card. And even without a 7.1 headset or sound system. I can hear the difference. Not saying the onboard was bad. Just wanted something a bit better. The sound on the sound card at 50% was like the onboard at 100%. Putting it up to 100% really just cleared up the sound more. Just tested it with music so far, and not with games or video. But a nice improvement nonetheless.

But as I said, I'll likely want to upgrade my CPU when I upgrade my GPU, so there won't be any actual issue with it in a good while. Just to see if there was any workarounds for this current config if I found I didn't need the CPU boost or I am missing something.

I'm fairly certain there's PCI to PCIe adapter cards but those will kinda put your sound card a little far from the motherboard. There's also PCIe risers you could use if your case has more than 4 expansion card slots but doing that if you had a second GPU would be incredibly awkward. But you can actually fix this right now if you just place your GPU in the bottom PCIe x16 slot. AMD GPUs can run at PCIe x4 with no performance loss (the only case where performance loss was observed due to running x4 was with an R9 295X2, and nVidia GPUs simply won't run at anything less than x8).

Yeah I know that I can put my GPU on the second x16 slot, but yeah I found risers and adapters when I broadened my search terms. And well, googeling instead of searching on the website I ordered my parts from. Thanks for the answers anyway