I'm building my first gaming PC and I'm spending quite a bit of money on it so I want to make sure I maximize it's performance. I'm using an EVGA 2080ti and an ASRock X570 Gaming Phantom 4. I made a little bit of a mistake because I grabbed this Noctua NH_U14S when it was on sale during Prime Days. It was a really good price and PC Part-Picker didn't show any compatibility issues at the time but now I see on Noctua's website that the cooler will cover the top PCI-e slot so I will have to use the bottom slot for the GPU. I do some light competitive FPS gaming; I don't make money doing it but I play at a high level and want the smoothest experience I can get.
So my question is: will GPU performance be negatively impacted such that I should return my cooler and get a different one which would allow me to utilize the top PCI-e slot or is there no difference/negligible difference?
So my question is: will GPU performance be negatively impacted such that I should return my cooler and get a different one which would allow me to utilize the top PCI-e slot or is there no difference/negligible difference?