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Originally Posted by Reece
Just a comment of curiosity!! When you look at the box layout all the cards are facing down so you only see the soldered side of the boards, wouldn't it be better to have the motherboard mounted on the opposite side so that you can see the component side, would look a lot nicer.  Maybe it's for dust purposes that they keep the components on the underside,  Do they actually make a case with left & right reversed? or is this a left/right hand thing? |
Some cases are ATX and BTX standard which means you can basically reverse the way the motherboard is mounted so that the expansion cards face up and not down. BTX was devised by Intel back when they were producing those hot hot hot pentium 4 prescotts. ATX was not designed for optimal coling of those beasts. Intel tried to strongarm the industry in ditching ATX for BTX but that didn't come to pass. So we are still stuck with ATX excpet for some specific (and costly) cases that implement both standards. Right now with cpu that are very efficient in terms of thermal dissipation there is no need for a BTX standard.