It's hilarious that companies have tried almost every batshit retention mechanism for oversized GPUs in gaming computers except introducing card guides into consumer graphics cards. I posit this is the objectively correct solution and can make a build look badass.
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This would have been a very fine mid-high range gaming computer when the parts were new in 2008, save for details due to second-hand parts availability a decade later. Nowadays it's an excellent space heater, but that's more to do with Windows 8.1 than anything wrong with the hardware. It runs older games great!
- SilverStone TJ-10
- SilverStone NT-06
- Intel Q6600 (slight overclock to 3.1 GHz)
- 4x 2GB Kingston cheapass LPDDR2-6400 (slight overclock just under 1000 MT/s)
- SeaSonic S12Ⅱ Bronze 500W
- Asus P5Q Pro
- ASUS PhysX P1
- 2x Dell reference ATi Radeon HD3870 (with card guides!)
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even if you get ones with a heatsink, your graphics card blocks all of them from airflow. it seems like, if anything, the heat sink would make heat problems worse because it can go both ways
i know gravis did a post on this but i
- just installed TWO m.2
- and
- had to prioritize which slot the only one with a heatsink was going into
Frankly all of modern motherboard design is so fucked.
We need a new layout, but capitalism prioritizes momentum for mass production and cost reduction, so people are going to keep using ATX until the sun burns out. Meanwhile, GPUs are getting so big they practically need their own table, hanging out of a slot meant for something less than 1/4 their weight, ready to snap off because their entire design is borderline psychopathic, and THEN you have things like m.2 slots getting blocked by the chonky fuckers because there's no more goddamn room.
Something's going to have to break - either GPUs will need their own stands, presumably with bus cables back to the PCIe ports, or we're going to have to invent new cases to support the bastards. And m.2 is going to have to adapt - I virtually guarantee we'll see new form factors or adapter types for them sooner rather than later, because they need heat sink room for ideal performance but dear god are they too useful/good not to have.
Card guides already exist. They're in the PCI spec. This revision is from 1998. This has been a solved problem for 25+ years. Why aren't we using card guides I'm sO UPSET WE COULD HAVE FIXED THIS WITH CARD GUIDES
These are actually still common in server GPUs but vanishingly rare in consumer hardware.