Pcie 8x slot bifurcation & risers

This riser definitely looks low to the board, but unless I'm mistaken it seems like the cable is headed back towards the rest of the motherboard

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situs slot pg soft The following illustration shows the respective expansion slot connectors

mega joker slot You probably can but the better question is why would you want to? Speaking strictly on a technical numbers game here an x16 slot has 16