Will PCIe soundcard affect graphics card performance

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Sat, 02/13/2010 - 19:49
drake2231
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MY mother board (gigabyte gama790xds4) has two pcie 16x, one 1x, and I think a 4x that is covered up by my video card.
Will putting a pcie-1x sound card affect my GTX 280 running at 16x? For starters the motheboard will support 16x for one card or two video cards at 8x.

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Sat, 02/13/2010 - 21:21
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No. Unless you are using a multiple GPU setup with a Crossfire/SLI bridge, each slot is independent from one another.

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Sat, 02/13/2010 - 22:26
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Ok good. I know they are ran independtly I just didn't know if the fact they had to share the same 16x bandwidth would hurt it. Thanks Razear.

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Mon, 02/15/2010 - 11:11
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thnx razear! didn't know that!

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