GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.3): putting PCIE sound card in PCIEX8 slot

[silapakorn]

I wonder if I can put a PCIE sound card (x-fi titanium HD) in the PCIEX8 slot (for 2nd vga card).
I can’t use any of the PCIE1 slots on the board; PCIE1_1 is blocked by cpu cooler, PCIE1_2 and PCIE1_3 are blocked by the graphic card (gigabyte gtx580 windforce). If I am able to do so, will my graphic card run at 16x or 8x? Are there any downsides on using this setup?

Thanks for your help.

[Fatman]

It will probably make your Graphics card (PCI-E) run @8X instead of 16X though.