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Hello people, I was thinking about building a gaming pc and I noticed that the motherboard that I want to buy (MSI B350M BAZOOKA) might be too small for the Gigabyte Aorus RX 580 XTR and the TP-Link N900 TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless Card since the GPU is a 2.5/3 slot design card. Can someone tell me if it will fit or not? Thanks in advance

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1 minute ago, Dumbee said:

Hello people, I was thinking about building a gaming pc and I noticed that the motherboard that I want to buy (MSI B350M BAZOOKA) might be too small for the Gigabyte Aorus RX 580 XTR and the TP-Link N900 TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless Card since the GPU is a 2.5/3 slot design card. Can someone tell me if it will fit or not? Thanks in advance

It won't fit your your card is a 2 or 3 slot design. That's a bit of a funny layout for an mATX board why not leave a space at the second slot instead of not having a PCI-E connector at the bottom. 

 

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6 minutes ago, W-L said:

It won't fit your your card is a 2 or 3 slot design. That's a bit of a funny layout for an mATX board why not leave a space at the second slot instead of not having a PCI-E connector at the bottom. 

 

There are 2 pci-e 2.0 1x slots, will it not fit in either of them?

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Just now, Dumbee said:

There are 2 pci-e 2.0 1x slots, will it not fit in either of them?

The GPU will be in the way if it's larger than a 2 slot card, you could try your hand at getting a PCI-E extension butost likely it will not be able to mount even in the lower PCI-E slot in the case so it will need to have a mount made somewhere else. 

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1 minute ago, W-L said:

The GPU will be in the way if it's larger than a 2 slot card, you could try your hand at getting a PCI-E extension butost likely it will not be able to mount even in the lower PCI-E slot in the case so it will need to have a mount made somewhere else. 

 

For a a bit more paperz I have the option of getting the MSI B350M MORTAR which has an extra pcie 3.0 x16 slot, would I be able to put the Wireless card in that last slot?

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29 minutes ago, Dumbee said:

For a a bit more paperz I have the option of getting the MSI B350M MORTAR which has an extra pcie 3.0 x16 slot, would I be able to put the Wireless card in that last slot?

Yes that one will be able to hold a PCI-E X1 wireless card at the last slot. 

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Just now, W-L said:

Yes that one will be able to hold a PCI-E X1 wireless card at the last slot. 

Thanks for the help. I didn't like that one as much since it is black and red and has red LEDs and the GPU has orange and I'm very picky with colour matching. But I guess it'll have to do. Again, thank you so much. Have a good whatever it is where you live xD.

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3 minutes ago, Dumbee said:

Thanks for the help. I didn't like that one as much since it is black and red and has red LEDs and the GPU has orange and I'm very picky with colour matching. But I guess it'll have to do. Again, thank you so much. Have a good whatever it is where you live xD.

You can always turn off the lighting, they do have an arctic version also which has a white PCB.  

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