Question MSI MEG x870e godlike

[Alibaba81]

Hello really like the review on it!!
As I’m looking deeper. It feels that using that quite long m.2 xpander card would be in the way of setting up graphic card vertically and would also possibly compromise a good airflow with 3rd party 5090 which is quite thick with some of them being a 3.5 slot (asus astral 5090 4 fans). Looking at the MB the 2 PCIe slot aren’t that far.

Any opinion or live test on this?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

The board already has 5x PCIe M.2 slots. DO you really need 2 more? As for the vertical mount setup, if you really need to do so, you could get a riser for the M2 XPander 2 in addition to the discrete GPU. Thought I'd avoid vertical GPU mounting, that's just me.

 

[CountMike]

Hello really like the review on it!!
As I’m looking deeper. It feels that using that quite long m.2 xpander card would be in the way of setting up graphic card vertically and would also possibly compromise a good airflow with 3rd party 5090 which is quite thick with some of them being a 3.5 slot (asus astral 5090 4 fans). Looking at the MB the 2 PCIe slot aren’t that far.

Any opinion or live test on this?

Dual M.2 to PCIe x16 are barely half height and PCIe second x16 slot is far away from first on that MB , it'ds not going to e in the way.

 

[CountMike]

https://www.startech.com/en-eu/hdd/dual-m2-pcie-card-b