blackphoenix77

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Why do the make graphics cards so the are facing down? When the give off the there heat and the heat wants to travel up, its just sitting on the card. So the card is getting drenched in its own sweat making it hotting. They should flip it around...

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RichPLS

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I agree. Then you could easier see the cooler and fan, and some have cool designs on them.
Must be some engineering reason for this.


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cleeve

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I think it's as simple as the first PC boxes were desktops, not towers... so it didn't matter which end was up. It was an arbartrary decision that cards would fit in the way they do, with more space on the left side, I reckon.

Just one of those things.

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Crashman

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As well they could have. They could have simply stuck the chip and cooler on the top side and STILL had the rest of the card upside-down. But they didn't, and now there's stuff in the way.

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Crashman

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ISA cards were rightside-up. PCI cards came out well after towers. The real reason I believe they made PCI cards upside-down is so that they could put PCI and AGP slots in the same location of the case. And then AGP came along using a similar design to PCI.

You see on a lot of older boards 1 AGP, 4-5 PCI, and 2-3 ISA slots. 1 AGP plus 5 PCI plus 2 ISA is common, that's 8 slots competing for 7 slots in the case, hence some PCI and ISA slots would share the same location on the case and provided the either/or proposition.

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