Do you leave empty slots between cards?

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Reply 20 of 22, by dexter311

Posted on 2015-10-20, 08:41

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nforce4max wrote:
It is a good practice to leave room between cards for air flow and it makes servicing the machine easier plus it looks better 😉
In the end though we always run out of slots :s

Disagree - every slot occupied looks way better! 🤣

Reply 21 of 22, by nekurahoka

Posted on 2015-10-20, 12:35

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boxpressed wrote:
Is it true that the AGP slot and the PCI slot next to it share an IRQ? I read that somewhere on Vogons. Either way, I put a V3 PCI next to whatever AGP card is installed.

Some boards do force this. That's why I always start installing pci cards in the second slot. My SOYO 7VDA Socket 370 board was like this. Now it's just habit.

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Reply 22 of 22, by PeterLI

Posted on 2015-10-20, 14:03

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Nope. OEM desktops usually only have 3 slots anyway. 😀

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