This.
Get a stock cooler for your fiddling and repaste on final cooler replacement, disturbed paste will suffice for fiddling and testing in OS of choice.
Off the top of my head UAD Octo PCIe3 x1 , 2*Powercore cards both PCIe3 x1, physical size 200mm max in length.
I would prefer X670 so staying with win10 is possible (Win 11 is needed for full function of Intel E cores), also for the extra PCIe lanes
Another possibility could be to use M2 slot...
Hi everyone, new member here looking to upgrade to latest and greatest.
I am using Intel HEDT platform at the moment and have been extremely happy with it.
Intel i9 9980X 18 cores running at 4.8Ghz
EVGA X299 Dark Motherboard.
64Gb DDR4 3600 RAM
1080TI GPU
I have twin custom loop so separate...