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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

the power supply should be connected to high-current parts with wired contacts, or preferably bus bars, in the chassis. there should never be any mandated visible wires between the power supply and computer components. all power connections should be combined with the mounting standard. your GPU shouldn't catch fire because your power supply manufacturer soldered a Molex connector wrong.

no expansion cards should be supported mainly by a slot connector. there should never be any reason to have a "GPU prop" in your case. You shouldn't have to worry about your fucking graphics card sagging because everyone forgot how to make horizontal cases.

server manufacturers achieved much this long ago. pull one of the power supply from any Poweredge and you'll find a high-current edge connector. but ATX is a shoddy, slapdash standard with almost 40 years of technical debt. and we will never be rid of it, because of gamers

EDIT: and also because BTX flopped back in the netburst dark ages


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

I'm the only person on the world wide web brave enough to say that computers are bad


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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

i would be so happy to never have to route power cables ever again - not even for pretty showpiece builds, just like, to keep them away from moving parts like fans

but case manufacturers couldnt crap out 0.5mm stamped SECC cases for $40 if a power distribution subsystem had to be built into them so we'll probably never see it outside of enterprise blades

you know what's the worst though? fucking modular power supplies

TWICE as many mechanical cable joints/connectors to fail on you!

Absolutely no pinout standard so if you accidentally mix up one cable set with another, you'll put +12V into a +3.3V or reverse bias something and end up cooking some components!

Absolute madness.