Will this soundcard fit in the PCI slot of my motherboard?

[Diesf418]

Hello!

I am planning to buy an Asus Xonar D1 sound card and put it in my PCI slot, There is a version for PCI express, but I can only buy the D1 at the moment :

However I have a problem with my motherboard. I have an nvidia gt240 video card on a PCI-E and it is blocking 1 PCI slot, and the other one I am not quite sure.

Here is a picture of how it is:





So I am not quite sure if that could fit there. In my opinion, it should fit but it would look like is pasted to the video card's fan, but I still don't know if being in contact sound card with video card could cause a problem. And I am not even quite sure if it would fit.

So, my question here is, Is this enough space for a sound card like the one I mentioned to be inserted? Will it cause any problem in case it fits and it is in contact with the video card?

I thought about those PCI extenders cables, but I don't even know where they sell those, and even less in my location, so I will try to avoid those.

 

[txus.palacios]

It will fit. But the fan will have zero to none air.

 

[polacos]

thats a minus to have mATX mobos. you can't really put anything extra there

 

[polacos]

if you really need it, better save some more $$ and buy express version, as it will sit on top of gpu