Confused
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ISA slots back in ye olde days faced one way. They decided when bringing out PCI that wouldn't it be cool if they could share slots between PCI and ISA, hence when the PCI slots faced the other way. When AGP was released, they continued to put chips the same way round as PCI, due to the placement.
It wasn't until after that happened that towers started becoming more common, with the cards laying like _ rather than |. Of course now you have the chips on all these powerful graphics cards facing down, with the card trapping the heat.
What is being suggested is to move the HSF onto the other side of the card. However, (i believe) original specs for AGP/PCI/ISA could not allow the contents of the card to stick out over other slots, or there was a certain depth allowed. Putting the chip/HSF on the other side would break this spec, hence why they probably don't do it.
This is a moot point for my case, however, as it's WTX, so everything sits the other way up anyway 😉😛
Confused
It wasn't until after that happened that towers started becoming more common, with the cards laying like _ rather than |. Of course now you have the chips on all these powerful graphics cards facing down, with the card trapping the heat.
What is being suggested is to move the HSF onto the other side of the card. However, (i believe) original specs for AGP/PCI/ISA could not allow the contents of the card to stick out over other slots, or there was a certain depth allowed. Putting the chip/HSF on the other side would break this spec, hence why they probably don't do it.
This is a moot point for my case, however, as it's WTX, so everything sits the other way up anyway 😉😛
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