I was planning on getting an Asus Xonar DX sound card to complement my upcoming MX5021 purchase.
But the issue i found when i checked my Gigabyte P55 UD4P board is that my first PCIe x1 slot is blocked by the heatsink, the 2nd PCIe x1 slot covered by the GTX 260 and third though visible would either block or clash with the dual slot GPU cooler (touch and go).
The other option is to put the sound card in the PCIe x8 slot but i believe this would drop my single GPU PCIe slot down to x8 also.
(It mentions in the manual as putting in a graphics card but i would imagine this would be same for a sound card also.)
Please let me know my options here.
I dont plan to SLI/Crossfire but may upgrade the GPU at a later point so a x16 PCIe slot would come in handy.
Another option i was thinking was to get the Xonar D1 (the PCI brother of DX) but not sure about the availability and price of it in India. Can anybody help me out there on that?
Thanks in advance.
But the issue i found when i checked my Gigabyte P55 UD4P board is that my first PCIe x1 slot is blocked by the heatsink, the 2nd PCIe x1 slot covered by the GTX 260 and third though visible would either block or clash with the dual slot GPU cooler (touch and go).
The other option is to put the sound card in the PCIe x8 slot but i believe this would drop my single GPU PCIe slot down to x8 also.
(It mentions in the manual as putting in a graphics card but i would imagine this would be same for a sound card also.)
Please let me know my options here.
I dont plan to SLI/Crossfire but may upgrade the GPU at a later point so a x16 PCIe slot would come in handy.
Another option i was thinking was to get the Xonar D1 (the PCI brother of DX) but not sure about the availability and price of it in India. Can anybody help me out there on that?
Thanks in advance.