Help regarding GPU orientation!

[Tamjid Hossain]

Can anybody please tell me why GPU fans are in the bottom of the card, I mean arent the fans better looking than the pcb??? Sincerely Confused!

 

 

[Thias.TG]

3 minutes ago, Commander_Spartaa said:

Can anybody please tell me why GPU fans are in the bottom of the card, I mean arent the fans better looking than the pcb??? Sincerely Confused!

 

 

 

As far as i know it is turned that way so you dont blow hot air up to your CPU Cooler.

[You_are_a_cunt]

You're basically asking why graphics cards are designed with the components facing downwards.

It's due to standardization, for the most part.

GPUs come in multiple flavors, single slot, dual slot, triple slot (I think there used to be some sort of quad slot card?) and it isn't limited to GPUs.

The heatsink and fans are on the components for obvious reasons and they are oriented towards the "bottom" of the case/motherboard due to the large variation in card thickness, number of PCI(e) slots on motherboards, placement of other components on the motherboard relative to PCI(e) slots.

If they were oriented the other way around, you'd run into physical compatibility issues. Some motherboards could only fit single slot cards. Some would be able to fit dual slot cards.

 

In the end, it's all about standardization and taking into account all possible expansion card formfactors.

[NLD1st]

28 minutes ago, Commander_Spartaa said:

Can anybody please tell me why GPU fans are in the bottom of the card, I mean arent the fans better looking than the pcb??? Sincerely Confused!

 

 

Asking for help is perfectly fine but just help in the title isn't the best. Next time just go with something like gpu orientation or something. So people know what the post is actually about. 

 

15 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

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What @revsilverspine said is the answer on your question it would interfere with your CPU cooler or other components on your mobo that are above the pci slot

[bigneo]

51 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

Because otherwise they'd be drawing in hot air from the CPU.

What about water cooled CPU? It would not draw hot air from CPU.

 

I think @revsilverspine is accurate here that for the most part, it's due to standardization.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Just now, bigneo said:

What about water cooled CPU? It would not draw hot air from CPU.

 

I think @revsilverspine is accurate here that for the most part, it's due to standardization.

You're all thinking about modern computing. 

These standards have been in place ever since the early days of personal computing when watercooling wasn't even an idea.

Look at 486 system boards with ISA cards. They're wildly different from what we know as motherboards now, but they still have something we would find familiar: expansion slot orientation.

[Tamjid Hossain]

On 6/20/2017 at 5:19 PM, NLD1st said:

Asking for help is perfectly fine but just help in the title isn't the best. Next time just go with something like gpu orientation or something. So people know what the post is actually about. 

 

What @revsilverspine said is the answer on your question it would interfere with your CPU cooler or other components on your mobo that are above the pci slot

Okay! will do definitely do that! Thanks for the heads up! New here.....

[Tamjid Hossain]

On 6/20/2017 at 5:01 PM, revsilverspine said:

You're basically asking why graphics cards are designed with the components facing downwards.

It's due to standardization, for the most part.

GPUs come in multiple flavors, single slot, dual slot, triple slot (I think there used to be some sort of quad slot card?) and it isn't limited to GPUs.

The heatsink and fans are on the components for obvious reasons and they are oriented towards the "bottom" of the case/motherboard due to the large variation in card thickness, number of PCI(e) slots on motherboards, placement of other components on the motherboard relative to PCI(e) slots.

If they were oriented the other way around, you'd run into physical compatibility issues. Some motherboards could only fit single slot cards. Some would be able to fit dual slot cards.

 

In the end, it's all about standardization and taking into account all possible expansion card formfactors.

That definitely does make sense! but why not have the PCI(e) slots start from the bottom and make the Gpus Intake from the top and exhale on the bottom, shouldn't that help keep temps low. Because if the Gpu does exhaust towards the CPU isn't it already hampering CPU temps. Taking air cooling into account obviously.