Currently waiting on the parts of my new build to be delivered, and came across a question pertaining to my Wifi card and my graphics card. Which PCIx1 slot should I install the Wifi card into? The top one above the GPU may not fit due to the small heatsink on the Wifi card and the GPU's backplate, and even if it does I don't know how it would affect airflow for it. The slot in the middle would be right in front of my GPU's intake which may affect temps there. And I'm not sure about how the bottom slot would work, as most of what I've heard about wifi is that you want it higher up for the most unobstructed path between your router and the reciever. Any advice for a novice builder would be greatly appreciated.
If it helps, I'm building in a Mastercase Pro 5 on a Gigabyte ga-z170x-ud3 Ultra with a TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 wifi card and a Gigabyte 1060 Windforce N1060D5 GPU.
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