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Why does every graphics card manufacturer put the power connectors in the wrong place?

Grantelicious

Grantelicious

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They always put them at the top which is the worst place for cable management. Why put put them on the bottom of the card near the end? That way they can just go straight through the holes in the back of the case and be barely seen. It's not like it would even be a problem for risers as they always have enough clearance at the end of the card. Just annoys me so much having to have this big ugly cable, one of the reasons I hate AIOs as well, you'd think at least Corsair would design them with their case department to hide the tubes.
 
One day I just hope they can work out a way to have power supply via the PCIE and increase that or it be a secondary connector from the mobo to GPU and you connect the mobo to the power supplies for the additional just like the additional for the CPUs already. They can all be rear mounted then and similar to the Gigabyte stealth PC or whatever its called
 
Many cards don't even have a pcb going to the end so there's one reason.

I also suspect power connectors on the bottom would suck so much when it comes to case compatibility.
 
Curlyriff said:
One day I just hope they can work out a way to have power supply via the PCIE and increase that or it be a secondary connector from the mobo to GPU and you connect the mobo to the power supplies for the additional just like the additional for the CPUs already. They can all be rear mounted then and similar to the Gigabyte stealth PC or whatever its called
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A power connector in line with the PCI-E slot that automatically engages when you seat the card would be fantastic.
 
Or even with the power connector on the left near the case, so you can route the cable along the case side instead of right through the middle.
 
Curlyriff said:
One day I just hope they can work out a way to have power supply via the PCIE and increase that or it be a secondary connector from the mobo to GPU and you connect the mobo to the power supplies for the additional just like the additional for the CPUs already. They can all be rear mounted then and similar to the Gigabyte stealth PC or whatever its called
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That would be poor PCB design you don't want all that power going through the motherboard for the sake of it. Powering a GPU externally is the best option.
 
robj20 said:
That would be poor PCB design you don't want all that power going through the motherboard for the sake of it. Powering a GPU externally is the best option.
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It is no problem if it is designed accordingly. Honestly I would be good with an MATX board with just one PCIE slot that could have the power on mobo. I don't really need a lot of things most mobo's come with tbh though. They all over featured.


REAR IO
-10GBit ethernet
- 4 USB C ports to IO (inc usable for BIOS flash)
- DP 2.1
- Clear CMOS
- BIOS Switch

Storage/Expansion Slots
- 3 M.2 Slots
- 1 PCIE Slot

Memory
- 2 RAM Slots

Internal IO
- No front panel headers apart from power on/off
- CPU Pump header
- CPU Fan header
- 2 RGB header
- 2 Chassis fan headers

All power headers, fan headers and other internal IO with the M.2 slots on rear of board.
 
It sounds nice but no-one really wants this. Things are the way they are because it's a good balance between cost, design flexibility, utility and inter compatibility with older generation systems.

If all the power was via the motherboard, then we likely lose on cost and compatibility. A new GPU might require a new motherboard, and that might in turn require new ram and cpu. Or perhaps we would have been stuck with 75w gpus.
 
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