A few months ago, I decided to use the PCIe card in Melty again, plugging it into a PCIe x16 slot that wasn't "tied" to the one that the video card is in, and unfortunately, the two PCIe x16 slots that fit that description was either already blocked off by the GPU heat-sink or the one directly underneath the Vantec fan card. With the sound card underneath the fan card, the temperatures weren't bad, but it definitely couldn't stay there forever.
Since Lie-chan was using the switch-box as an extension cord, I had to just live without sound when I was using openSUSE on Melty. I eventually got a couple composite cable couplers and was able to find some spare RCA cables to extend the headphone to RCA cable to the receiver/amplifier, giving the switch-box back to Melty.
Eventually I got a PCIe x1 to PCIe x16 riser "card" which allowed me to drop the sound card to the bottom PCI slot of the case (the Cooler Master HAF X has 9 slots) and plug it into the PCIe x1 slot above the video card. At first, I read that I didn't have to use the power cord, but when I tried it, the sound card wasn't detected; after some wire management, I plugged the power into the x16 side of the riser card and the sound card was detected afterwards.
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