grafics cards mounted on the bottom of the case

[keakar]

why dont they just get it over with and make grafics cards mount on the bottom of the case and plug in with a wired interface like a hard drive does? they are so damn big and GPU coolers are getting so heavy, why not put them on stand offs on the bottom of the case?

this would let us have more cooling options with better airflow and more case design options.

i mean really how hard would it be to have a high speed "wired" interface connection?

the best part would be no more clearance issues.

 

[kwchang007]

look for it when pci-e v2 comes out. current pci-e doesn't support external wires, like what you're talking about. i've always thought that they should have fresh air blown straight over the gfx card, with the gfx cards mounted around the case (much like your idea, except also at top, and sides, etc) so they aren't so close together and put out heat along with a gfx card next to it.

 

[tkpenalty]

why dont they just get it over with and make grafics cards mount on the bottom of the case and plug in with a wired interface like a hard drive does? they are so damn big and GPU coolers are getting so heavy, why not put them on stand offs on the bottom of the case?

this would let us have more cooling options with better airflow and more case design options.

i mean really how hard would it be to have a high speed "wired" interface connection?

the best part would be no more clearance issues.

Um I thought I was smart, but the idea is old man...

 

[Kursah]

Keep an eye out, there's already been a few demo implememntations of such a thing. The one I last remember was to have an easier way to get enthusiast 3d performance on a laptop, there was a small case with the vid card inside, it had an LED readout that displayed temps, voltages, speed, etc. I think someday they need to have a universal slot, and have programmable controllers to that slot for whatever the component is. I do hope that high power video cards will eventually shrink in size a little bit, I had my old 9600 pro out the other day and I remember how big I thought that was compared to my old GF2 Mx440...if they could make an 8800 or 2900 function on a 9600 sized PCB I'd be happy.

 

[tkpenalty]

Keep an eye out, there's already been a few demo implememntations of such a thing. The one I last remember was to have an easier way to get enthusiast 3d performance on a laptop, there was a small case with the vid card inside, it had an LED readout that displayed temps, voltages, speed, etc. I think someday they need to have a universal slot, and have programmable controllers to that slot for whatever the component is. I do hope that high power video cards will eventually shrink in size a little bit, I had my old 9600 pro out the other day and I remember how big I thought that was compared to my old GF2 Mx440...if they could make an 8800 or 2900 function on a 9600 sized PCB I'd be happy.

Thats a different idea, he means by the graphics card instead of using the slot, they can be drives, using a different bus, like a SATA port. Well its a good idea up to a point where you consider the only other way to have that much power from the motherboard is to make a slot that big... also, its not an easy thing to do, if there was such thing there would be a need to have 3x6 pins due to the fact that the "port" is a DATA port and not a power. If HDDs were in slots, they wouldnt need external power!

EDIT: Oh yeah its not easy... if the cable is too long, you get signal loss etc. Slots are the best atm...

 

[keakar]

the picture i had was a short connector that had a male connector that plugged into the mobo PCI slot as it is now with say 18 guage wires that had a female pci mobo type slot attatched to the other end that could be plugged into the video card.

this is no change for mobo or video cards but only an adapter plug for remote mounting in the form of an extention plug to move the card to the bottom of the case.

 

[keakar]

If HDDs were in slots, they wouldnt need external power!

EDIT: Oh yeah its not easy... if the cable is too long, you get signal loss etc. Slots are the best atm...

well since many cards now have their own extra power connectors, can't they use this power to run off of like the mobo does?

 

[DaMulta]

They showed those off last year. I bet we see them around December time.

 

[keakar]

They showed those off last year. I bet we see them around December time.

really?

cool, i can only imagine the great modding capabilities it will allow.

 

[tkpenalty]

really?

cool, i can only imagine the great modding capabilities it will allow.

its an old idea man... What he is talking about is notebook graphics over some USB or firewire or ESATA...

 

[keakar]

its an old idea man... What he is talking about is notebook graphics over some USB or firewire or ESATA...

wrong! when was the last time you saw a case mod for a laptop? lol

what i am talking about is just "what i said".

i am talking about pc's not notebooks. I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT LAPTOPS.

i am talking a short adapter made of proper sized wires that plugs into the PCI slot on one end and the grafics card on the other end and uses the 4 pin molex connector for 12v power supply.

with this the video card can be mounted horizontal at the bottom of case using standoffs.

as for the old idea man.... well wasn't the quad core an old idea too? should they have not done it?

 

[zekrahminator]

TK, chill.

Yes, the idea has been thought about for laptops. But for uber graphics that don't have to suffer with the lag of a USB 2 interface (400MB/s one way woohoo, that's like AGP 2X), just wait for PCI Express 2. That oughta jump-start the market for external GPUs .

 

[KennyT772]

With the way things are heading, soon enough the gpu will be the heart of the system and the cpu will be a pci-e board...i mean sheesh...gpus use more power, put out more heat, and cost more than almost all processors.