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My RX 480 lives upside-down thanks to Dell. Just finished a heavy Doom session.
Have not tried standing the case on it's head to check, but the card seems to run comparable temps with others.
Heat rises, maybe? Cases also have better ventilation at the top, including your exhaust fan. It just makes the most sense to blow the air up.I was always confused as to why the fans were on the "bottom" of the video cards, and that is where the old awesome graphics were printed on the fan shroud. Once the cards were in, they were out of sight, so it never made sense to me.
PCI specifications are what keeps the card configurations to that."I was always confused as to why the fans were on the "bottom" of the video cards"
Have pondered this as well. Seems to me fans on top would suck heat from the CPU. Socket is on bottom left (behind lower HDD) in this Dell by the way. Much about these is backwards. Partly because they are made to be stacked atop one another on their sides too.
Legacy may be another reason. In the old days we had ISA slots. Then when PCI slots were phasing in, those cards were mounted upside-down so both could work alongside each other without physical interference. Trend continued after AGP was implemented and has remained since. Just a thought.
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