OMG nVidia is going all 3dfx on us :(

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: buleyb

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Clockwurk
I don't think a single person at Anandtech is even remotely capable of questioning the architecture of any
Nivida or ATI board.
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I'll question architecture/design... Why doesn't Nvidia place the chip on the other side of the card? There usually is backplane slot above the AGP slot, but not a card to block it. I'm really not sure why noone has thought of this. It would place the cooling closer to the rear exhaust fan on most cases and has nearly unlimited space. Sheesh

Cause they wanna follow the AGP spec unlike some mobo manufacturers?

Well I think its fair to say that by taking a PCI slot, they are kinda smearing that AGP spec a bit

The card doesn't take up an extra slot, the cooling does. It's up to the card mfgr to cool the chip, not nVidia. They just provide reference designs and guidance.

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: merlocka

Originally posted by: Clockwurk
I don't think a single person at Anandtech is even remotely capable of questioning the architecture of any
Nivida or ATI board.
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I'll question architecture/design... Why doesn't Nvidia place the chip on the other side of the card? There usually is backplane slot above the AGP slot, but not a card to block it. I'm really not sure why noone has thought of this. It would place the cooling closer to the rear exhaust fan on most cases and has nearly unlimited space. Sheesh

Thankfully you don't work for nVidia.

Can't they follow AGP specs except put the card facing up like the pci cards do? What advantage does having the card face down have over facing up? Wouldn't having the card face up help cool the card?

 

[grant2]

Originally posted by: buleyb
And I don't see anything wrong with requiring a board that follows the AGP spec, thats what its there for. The loss of the 1st PCI slot sucks, but I usually don't populate anyway for airflow reasons...

Does the AGP spec also call for addition PCI slots being unusable?

 

[Krk3561]

If a card manufacturer made a graphics card where the chip faced up the fan would be blowing hot air on to the CPU.

 

[BmXStuD]

Originally posted by: BentValve

Originally posted by: human2k
on-board graphics is good enuf here. Can invest that $500 on my education instead of stupid graphx card to play quake 3 or some dumb FPS really fast.

ahh mannnn tru dat 500 on a card to too much.. onboard inst enough for me my radeon 7200 is good enough ... life-than fun game stuff

 

[sharkeeper]

Use an AGP riser allowing the card to be turned sidways. I've seen these risers to accomodate cards that are too big to fit in motherboards. 1U servers use them too.

Cheers!