Pretty good hack - I have the same motherboard coming in on Monday and was wondering how I'd mount 4 cards in the donationware case I salvaged. What'd you use to cut the case apart? Looks like yours is aluminium, but the one I'll be dealing with is steel.
Thank you, although I cannot take credit, my friend works at a steel shop, he easily cut it and smoothed it with a grinding disc. I believe this case was 1/8" steel. It use to be an old antec case.
Also I ordered like 4 different extenders from china off ebay for less than $20USD. just search ebay for pcie 1x or 16x extender or riser although they are marked as shipped i do not know when they will be here. usually stuff comes pretty fast from china, but who knows....