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It's perfectly fine to run your graphics card in another slot - my first aircooler did the exact same thing and I had to run mine in the secondary PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. No issues.

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I have the MSI xpower ac and after I installed the air cooler on it I noticed that the first slit is covered up. Currently I only have one 980ti and was seeing if it's okay to put it in the second PCIE slot? What happens when I go SLI can I do the second and third slots?

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Can you take a picture? From what I can tell about the board, no CPU cooler should cover any PCIe slot on the board. DIMM slot yes, but not a PCIe slot.

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I have the MSI xpower ac and after I installed the air cooler on it I noticed that the first slit is covered up. Currently I only have one 980ti and was seeing if it's okay to put it in the second PCIE slot? What happens when I go SLI can I do the second and third slots?

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Is the air cooler blocking the slot? Can you send a picture of what's going on?

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Flip the cooler 90 degrees so the fan is pointing away from the back

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Hopefully this worked. Not sure hoq to do the spoiler thing.

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CPU cooler is too big it would seem

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CPU cooler is too big it would seem

uhm , yeah it's kinda obvious already. hahaha

 

 

Hopefully this worked. Not sure hoq to do the spoiler thing.

 

maybe you can flip is sideways and take off one fan

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uhm , yeah it's kinda obvious already. hahaha

maybe you can flip is sideways and take off one fan

I was afraid of that. So it's not good to put gpu in second slot?

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It's perfectly fine to run your graphics card in another slot - my first aircooler did the exact same thing and I had to run mine in the secondary PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. No issues.

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