Asus Gryphon z97 compatibility help

The motherboard has three x16 PCIe slots The top one is currently occupied by R9-290 and the last, bottom most PCIe x16 slot was supposed to hold my ASUS

Not possible The slot in these boards were electrically wired to the chipset's PCIe root complex given that the CPU had no dedicated lanes for SSDs like

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