I'm marginally confused...So your old motherboard died, but now your worried about your cards not fitting in it??
If you already bought a new motherboard and it doesn't fit, you could probably just return it and buy a different one.
im sorry for the confusion. so here we go, i cant return it.
the main problem is: the new board have different style, which result in soundcard touching and blocking my graphic card fan. the graphic card heatsink got hot cause of blocked fan.
so i remove the soundcard temporarily (x-fi xtreme audio) because concerned of the heat.
my question is, is there any way i can use the PCI soundcard safely?
well okay... i did not record the temperature when the soundcard is blocking the fan. but when i touch the heatsink, it is very hot indeed. i mean without the card blocking, even after playing games, it does not get that hot when i touch...