Fans are only on the bottom because pci (and then pcie) cards are upside down because they wanted to maintain physical compatibility with ISA cards back in the 90s.
The BTX standard wanted to fix that, but it never took off.
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Fans are only on the bottom because pci (and then pcie) cards are upside down because they wanted to maintain physical compatibility with ISA cards back in the 90s.
The BTX standard wanted to fix that, but it never took off.
Interesting. I always assumed it was because the pcie slots were below the CPU, and the protocol was designed to avoid dumping hot GPU exhaust air into the CPU heatsink. Shame that BTX never went anywhere, but makes sense given the established market for ATX-variant cases.
A lot of modern gpus are flow through designs where they dump hot air right in front of the CPU. If the GPU was flipped it would be sucking air away from the CPU.
The up side to ATX pointing the GPUs down is you can make the heatsink as big as you want. With BTX the GPU heatsink will start running into the CPU.
if you want to showcase the gpu, look for a case with vertical gpu mount option. pics
or one that opens on the other side, where the mainboard sits cpu end down/slots end up. same expansion card orientation as the old failed 'btx' form factor; which i still have a couple of.
Put the side back on your case, and then you don't have to look at it. ;)
Yeah I don't get it either. Got this one because it was stupidly blingy. Guess what side this is?
Every hardware is beautiful from every angle.
Is this the "woke" that conservatives are complaining about?
Conservatives have never opened a computer
My EVGA GTX 1080 Ti was lit up on the back. RIP EVGA as a board partner. 😢
And fuck NVidia for implicitly making EVGA quit.
My GPU has a decorative cover that magnets into the backplate but honestly I prefer seeing the PCB
The backplate does provide some cooling on higher end cards. I have a water block on a 3080 and it's not recommended to run it without a backplate.
the backplate keeps the board from warping due to excessive heat.
Yup, it's always been funny to me. Got a sandwich style ITX case, I like being able to see my GPU