Vertical mounting GPU without loosing access to PCIe slots

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but my problem now is i want to add an X-Fi sound card , but my GPU is blocking my PCIe 1x slot so will populating all those slots

My motherboard has three pcie x16 size slots, but I cannot use one of them for usb controller pcie x4 card: the pcie16_1 is for GPU, the PCI EXPRESS slot 1: NVIDIA 1080TI PCI EXPRESS slot 2: none Cant use the last PCI express port as my radiator fan is blocking the slot

slot sites It could be a conflict with that one PCIe x 16 slot or a BIOS needs to be updated or possible Gigabyte might have a new vBIOS for your GPU card that might covers the top most PCI-E port You need to re-think you CPU Cooler You need the PCIe Slot next to the CPU for X16 Also I do not use