pci and agp

[Ozzman]

hmm anyone ever wonder why pci and agp slots or the cards are setup to connect upside down unlike the good old isa slots??

P.S this is what i love about talking on a comp forum if i said anything this to anyone else they would be like wtf is a pci, agp wtf whats the diff and wtf is ISA and why do they all have 3 letter names LMAO u know how it is...

[DarkArctic]

My guess would be more room for the CPU cooler.

-DarkArctic

[Diggrr]

My guess is, it started with the evil evil Pachard Bell.
When PCI first started coming out, and everyone had ISA cards, PB (and probably others) had an ISA slot and a PCI slot sharing one backplane slot (this only works if one card is upside down). This way the old desktop style cases could have room to fit either card in the 5 backplane slots they had room for on vertical riser cards. They also did bad things like combine cards like the sound/modem p.o.c....and neither worked well.

Even if I'm dead wrong, I still say it was evil evil Pachard Bell that started it :D

[DOCTOR EVIL]

Originally posted by Ozzman
hmm anyone ever wonder why pci and agp slots or the cards are setup to connect upside down unlike the good old isa slots??

P.S this is what i love about talking on a comp forum if i said anything this to anyone else they would be like wtf is a pci, agp wtf whats the diff and wtf is ISA and why do they all have 3 letter names LMAO u know how it is... Yeah, I've always wondered about that too. If all of the chips and electronic components were on top of the card instead of the bottom the chips and microprocessors would keep cooler because heat rises. When these things are upside down the electrically generated heat stays inside all of the components because it wants to rise, but it's trapped making things hotter than they should be. This really only applies to tower computer cases not desktop cases.

[Ozzman]

hey my first PC was a Pachard Bell i payed 2000 bucks for that pos but i got them on the 4 year repair plan :D anyway thats what got me started on PCs so i cant bitch..

i was looking inside my case and i just started thinking what the use of the pci and agp slot being upside down is.. maybe we can email a big motherboard company and see if they know why.. cause it makes no sence... and what do u mean to make room for cpu coolers the Heatsinks are far enough away from my and my friends vid cards for me not to even need to think about it..

[Morbid]

Flip your computer upside down for ultimate cooling!!

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[Ozzman]

Originally posted by Morbid
Flip your computer upside down for ultimate cooling!!

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:


LMAO wait ur not for real are u? lol

[Diggrr]

Aha! It's an evil Pachard Bell plot, planned well in advance to promote the WTX standard! I knew they were up to something!


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[Morbid]

Originally posted by Ozzman



LMAO wait ur not for real are u? lol

hahaha nah, I was just joking...... maybe... hrm.. I might be onto something...

::flips PC over::

j/k