Appreciate the reply, I'm sorry to sound annoying but I've got one question about my main PC motherboard and GPU. I'm using the 3090TI and the GPU is blocking my 1x PCIe 3.0 slot which is directly under the PCIe 5.0 x16 (with steel frame in the picture is the one GPU is installed into and then you can see the PCIe 3.0 slot) my question is what can I do? Can the DMA device be installed in PCIe 3.0 x16 at the bottom? I can assure you once this question has been answered and I know how to work around this then i'll be sorted. I forgot to mention the motherboard is called the MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk DDR5 Version. I've just asked ChatGBT if I could install a PCIe x1 device in a x16 slot and it said "smaller PCIe cards can be used in larger slots. In your case, a PCIe x1 device can be inserted into a PCIe x16 slot without any issues." So I'll just get a second opinion from you guys and make sure the DMA device I've decided on will work fine in a x16 slot
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