Über~PhLuBB
08-14-01, 11:42 PM
Wouldn't it make more sense to put the GPU on what we know now as the "back" of a video card? Then the heatsink wouldn't tug at all, it could actually provide better cooling.
I mean, I've never come accross any motherboard manufacturer who put any other slot (Aside from AMR and the like) above the AGP port. There's no motherboard being sold that has a PCI slot above the AGP port.
Therefore, there would be no blocking a GPU HSF.
In the future, with bigger, badder, faster, hotter GPUs, certainly larger HSFs will be NEEDED, not just suggested. A tinsy little thin square of extruded 2/32" aluminum just doesn't seem like enough to cool a GeForce3, let alone whatever comes in the future.
Anyway, ramblings aside, would there be a way to reform the current building standards to force manufacturers to put GPUs on the "back" (or if the card is installed in a tower, top) of the card?
That would make it alot better for overclockers, you could put a gargantuan alpha cooler on that bad boy and haul the MHz through the roof!
(Not to mention cards would be more durable, and longer lasting. Durable because the weight of the HSF wouldn't break the card or dislodge itself from the GPU while suffering a shock--longer lasting because we all know the cooler any piece of electronics is, the longer it lasts. This would also aid manufacturer's cooling needs, enabling them to push stock MHz levels much higher by using larger stock HSFs)
I mean, I've never come accross any motherboard manufacturer who put any other slot (Aside from AMR and the like) above the AGP port. There's no motherboard being sold that has a PCI slot above the AGP port.
Therefore, there would be no blocking a GPU HSF.
In the future, with bigger, badder, faster, hotter GPUs, certainly larger HSFs will be NEEDED, not just suggested. A tinsy little thin square of extruded 2/32" aluminum just doesn't seem like enough to cool a GeForce3, let alone whatever comes in the future.
Anyway, ramblings aside, would there be a way to reform the current building standards to force manufacturers to put GPUs on the "back" (or if the card is installed in a tower, top) of the card?
That would make it alot better for overclockers, you could put a gargantuan alpha cooler on that bad boy and haul the MHz through the roof!
(Not to mention cards would be more durable, and longer lasting. Durable because the weight of the HSF wouldn't break the card or dislodge itself from the GPU while suffering a shock--longer lasting because we all know the cooler any piece of electronics is, the longer it lasts. This would also aid manufacturer's cooling needs, enabling them to push stock MHz levels much higher by using larger stock HSFs)