Quote Originally Posted by garyd9 View Post
It appears this leaves me only two good choices: Send the silver arrow back and try to find something less bulky that still performs well, or replace the motherboard with something that offers more PCIe options.
AFAIK, there is no video card using more bandwith than what a x8 slot can give (32 Gbits/s with PCI-E 2.X)

So why would you be annoyed with your video card running on x8 ?