[SOLVED] Motherboard PCIe question

[Surreall82]

Hello!

I have an "Asus Maximus XI Extreme" motherboard, with 2 cards currently added. One is a USB 3.0 expansion in the small "PCIe 3.0 x1_1" slot, and the other is my GTX 1080 in the "PCIe 3.0 x16_1" slot.

Can I add a PCIe sound card to "PCIe 3.0 x16_3" without affecting the video card? From what I'm reading in the manual, it seems as long as the x16_2 slot is open it will be fine, right? The video card should still run at full x16?

 

[Third-Eye]

Hello!

I have an "Asus Maximus XI Extreme" motherboard, with 2 cards currently added. One is a USB 3.0 expansion in the small "PCIe 3.0 x1_1" slot, and the other is my GTX 1080 in the "PCIe 3.0 x16_1" slot.

Can I add a PCIe sound card to "PCIe 3.0 x16_3" without affecting the video card? From what I'm reading in the manual, it seems as long as the x16_2 slot is open it will be fine, right? The video card should still run at full x16?

Should be fine. The sound card should only be 1x PCIE and if the USB 3.0 card is using only a 1x slot, then you should be fine. Even at 8x PCIE 3.0 the 16x slot for the GPU is more than adaquate.