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Here's the best way I've found and seen of modifying a PCIE x1 slot to fit a full-sized x16 card

Or will they only work on a PCI-Ex1 slot? Reason being I am looking at buying an MSI 990FXA-GD80 MoBo I want to use the second card slot Riser PCIE x1 to x16 GPU performance loss test in any games, compared with PCIE x16 from

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