Clearance with passive Gigabyte 6600

XMan

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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The passive heatsink on my PCIe 6600 256MB just barely comes over the back edge of the neighboring PCI slot. I'd like to put a sound card in there, but will this cause any problems? IE, pins contacting the heatsink and shorting?

I've using an A8N-VM CSM, this is probably not a common problem as most of the PCIe boards I've seen don't have PCI slots right next to the 16x slot. Anybody else having a similar issue?