X99S XPOWER AC - Not utilizing full 40 lanes on 5960x

Hi.
I have a tri SLI setup that is running at 16x/8x/8x bandwidth with my 5960X. The 5960X has 40 lanes so I should be running 16x/16x/8x?
I have the following
E1 - GTX Titan
E2 - GTX Titan
E3 - empty
E4 - GTX Titan
E5 - empty
E6 - ZxR Sound Card
M2_1 - XP941 SSD
Looking in the manual at the PCIe bandwidth table, both E1 and E4 are 16x capable. But, inside of the manual, I see no combination in the PCIe table that allows for E1, E2, E4 to run 16x/8x/16x. The only one there is E1 16x, E4 16x, and E6 at 16x meaning I would have to switch E2 GTX Titan with E6 ZxR sound card.
Can you please make a bios update that will fix this? No watercooler is going to space their cards out unevenly. Maybe it works better for air coolers, but it doesn't look nice for watercoolers (not to mention I do not have a bridge block that supports such an odd arrangement of GPUs).
I am looking to the full 40 lanes because two cards will be ran in SLI for display, where as the third card will run as a dedicated CUDA compute card. I'm looking to have the display cards run 16x, and the CUDA compute card to run 8x.
Thanks.

Quote from: blade52x on 19-October-14, 23:33:55
Hi.
I have a tri SLI setup that is running at 16x/8x/8x bandwidth with my 5960X. The 5960X has 40 lanes so I should be running 16x/16x/8x?
I have the following
E1 - GTX Titan
E2 - GTX Titan
E3 - empty
E4 - GTX Titan
E5 - empty
E6 - ZxR Sound Card
M2_1 - XP941 SSD
Looking in the manual at the PCIe bandwidth table, both E1 and E4 are 16x capable. But, inside of the manual, I see no combination in the PCIe table that allows for E1, E2, E4 to run 16x/8x/16x. The only one there is E1 16x, E4 16x, and E6 at 16x meaning I would have to switch E2 GTX Titan with E6 ZxR sound card.
Can you please make a bios update that will fix this?
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X99S-XPOWER-AC.html#hero-specification
3-way mode: x16/ x0/ x0/ x16/ x8
For the CPU that supports 40 PCIe lanes
There is no BIOS update able to change the hardware design.

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