x58 chipset i am using a x8 or x16 lane as a x4/8 lane

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ok I have a intel dx58SO2 motherboard and a x58 chipset. the board only comes with 3 graphics cards slots 1x - x1pcie slot and a pci slot.

I have 1 radeon 280x graphgics card installed and am using the x1 pcie slot. so I had 2 remaining full throttle lanes for graphics cards but I put a x4 pcie sound card in a creative recon 3d sound card into a graphiocs card slot. it fits it just does not have the extra pins to fill the entire slot. it works ruinbs saflyt and heard this can be done ok is why I did it

however one slight problem. the slot I have the sound card in is running at a x8 speed. how could I reduce this lane and make it run at a x4 speed. reason being is I think it is causinbg minor bugs but I don't know
 
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