1080Ti in x 8 Gen PCIe slot for rendering

You don't need PCIe support to run Nvidia's RTX 3000 series or AMD's Radeon RX 6000 range, and the performance increase isn't as noticeable

If you have a true 3 slot card, which I don't the bracket will be nicely hidden but in my case sticks out a bit Make sure you have See

can you use ddr3 in ddr4 slot A PCIe slot will not bottleneck the card But what CPU are you running? That might be a different story 6152021 EVGA_JacobF Nope

candy glyph slot It clearly states its pcie4 for the gpu at x16 so it will be running at pcie4 all but x4 as the 6500xt is limited to that but working at its max