starfield machine

the main reason i built this desktop is to run the recently released game starfield. i was previously using a nvidia gtx 1060 6gb graphics card, so this upgrade was pretty much required for me to run this new game and decent settings. i know my setup is a little bit unusual as you can see in the picture. this is because i use a lot of ssd storage. and I mean A LOT of ssd storage. and so in my top primary pci-e slot i have an adapter that runs multiple m.2 ssds. i put my 7600xt graphics card in the bottom pci-e slot, which i know cuts my pci-e lanes in half from 16x to 8x. however, both my motherboard and my graphics card are pci-e 4.0 compatible. since my graphics card is running at the pci-e 4.0 interface, there is not a performance hit that is as significant as if i were reducing pci-e 3.0 lanes from 16x to 8x. ive had zero problems running my graphics card at 8x so far.