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paulw10
By paulw10
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apologies for asking such a noob question but I find myself getting confused when looking at the dimensions for GPUs as the manufacturers seem to use height and width interchangeably.

when I look the dimensions for a GPU I am assuming the lowest number after length, that's usually in the 40-60 mm range is referring to this distance here

 

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Correct??

 

in my head this would be the width of the card but it looks to me like some call it height?

 

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It's "height" if you're looking at it from the side inserted into a PCIe slot in most cases. 

 

As a general rule, the dimension you are confused about is going to be the smallest of the three measurements on just about every card. 

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