New GX Machine coming up in....3...2...1

I am analysing the PCB of two motherboards.

  1. Gigabyte B550 Gaming X for ₹ 11k

  2. Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro for ₹ 16k

The Gaming X motherboard has a PCIe X1 slot at the very bottom. Now being a 1.5 slot Soundcard my AE 5 will hang so that is fine but it "might" block the "sys_fan3" connector. In case of this issue I can still connect my sound card to the second PCIe x16 slot just fine and it still give enough space to not block airflow to GPU.

The second board gives enough space for everything but also costs ₹ 5,000 more.

Any suggestions. Or if you have any other board in mind, let me know.

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