Backward PCI cards?

all my cards are backward. this is can do a problem?

im talking about a problem about performance or things like this

No, he means that the backside of the PCI cards' circuit board faces upwards, instead of the component side.

That's exactly as it should be, it keeps the majority of settling dust just lying on a bare board, instead of clogging up the components. It also keeps the area next to the RAM and the CPU socket free from any intrusions from the first PCI-e slot. Many motherboards are EXTREMELY tight, and on some, you have to remove a video card to get the RAM in or out. Can you imagine how tight it would be if the components (and therefore the cooling system) was sitting on top of the PCI-e slot? You woudn't be able to fit a decent CPU cooler at all.

The only downside I can see to the current system is that passively cooled graphics cards (like my Gigabyte X800XL) have to have heatpipes to get the heat round to the "top" of the card, in order to effectively radiate heat away. This **does* encroach into the CPU cooling area, but my Thermaltake Sonic Tower passive CPU cooler fits without issue.

This is a legacy thing, from way back, and it aint gonna change any time soon - not even with the BTX form factor.

So just get used to it.

All my PCI and AGP cards are turned back. Nomaly a videocard fan is upside but on mine its back side. I was wondering whats the best...

my MB is nor inversed.

i dont have any picture but my computer is a tower and all PCI and AGP cards are inversed.

no i mean like they are backward damnit like gfx card fan is on card. mine is under.

oh.. why on computer pictures it show onward?

But my friend computer cards in onward and on my old computer too.

my PCI and AGP slots are inversed

is it a good mobo? and i got some picts of my computer. i will post em soon...

Your cards are not backward, and the agp and pci slots are not inversed(position wise).

You have a perfectly normal motherboard with perfectly oriented expansion cards. Your video card is on top, like it should be, with the pci cards underneath.

But for your computers sake, go out and buy a can of air and dust that computer out. When you have a clear side, stuff like dust really shows up.

Don't worry about your computer, your fine.

OMG...first of all yes older PCs did have everything right-side up but that was waaayyy back to the Pentiums and early Pentium II systems. If I recall (could be wrong) AMD K6-II mobos were the first to have 'upside down' slots but maybe i'm wrong. Anyways, yes your system is perfectly fine.

But geez you may want to do a little compressed air thingie to your pc as it is a frikin dustbowl!

EDIT: Dust causes overheating, and contrary to popular belief, *most* PCs are cooled more efficiently with the case on, not off. Clean the frikin dust and your overheating problems should go away.

The key to cooling fan based PCs is air temperature differential and airflow. When you get a layer of dust on your componenets like the one you have, the dust acts like an insulator and increases the temperature of your components.

Have the case off diverts airflow in and out the side instead of across your components like its designed.

mmm...maybe youre right, heck I dunno anymore...

Thats fine. you are free not to take our advice. However you should trust that we know what we are talking about.

No offense, but if you clean it every week and it still looks that dust inside, you aren't doing it right.

No its not dangerous. you can use air anywhere, just make sure you direct the dust out of the case.

Just spray the can of air anywhere inside the case. The air will not damage your computer in any way. Spray it on all your components and the motherboard, even the power supply. Make sure very little dust in left in your case.

I am pretty sure you heard wrong. I clean everything in my case quite often and never had a fan go bad from it.

If I were you, I would question some of the things you hear more often. In your various posts, you have heard a lot of things from your friends or wherever that have been mininformaed or just been wrong.

My advice is to spend a little more time looking at releable sources on the internet and come to your own conclusions.

Can't believe I'm replying to this string, but more so, can't believe that everyone is entertaining this post and trying to help this guy. He's either a total dumb**s or playing games with the kindly forumz folks. C'mon, how much of n00b do you have to be to ask if the pci cards have the components soldered to the "proper" side of the pcb. For goodness sake, get a clue...you stupid tool...

Those temps are all fine. what do they read if you put your case back together.

Hello,

I agree perfectly that the dust is causing a lot of your problems. Improve your cable management with the tube cables instead of the flat ribbons). If a new PSU is another option, get a modular or something with good cable management.



P.S.: The dust inside can be 100x more dangerous than outside air. Can cause long term alergy and breathing related problems (even cancer).

Can also use anti-static clothes (like the swifter kind for the floors) so you do not end up blowing all the dust around.

Even I put a vacuum to my case and I don't mean on the components.

oops i mean my case was already closed but recently, i get a error like a hardware error.

It was blue screen and it was saying: emptying phisical memory...
and it was saying it was a hardware problem.
STOP 0x000006b (i think)

It was while playing a game.

my GPU is overheating.

:?: