Video/Sound Card Orientation

I think we had this talk before somewhere.

It all comes down to history. Everything we do now is based on original PC designs. ATX for example was created in 1995. This encompasses motherboard designs, case layout, and power supply connections. We have basically started with ATX and just built on it by adding more connections. Companies have tried to come out with new designs like BTX but without everyones support they just don't take off.

In order for everything to change you would have to change every single part in your computer. A lot of people carry over some parts from their last build as they upgrade. A new standard would change all of that. Because of that most people won't want to change.


Personally I would love to see major changes. Look at power supplys, we keep adding more and more cables for powering memory, cpu, and video cards. I would love to see a much simpler power cable design with a larger gauge wire being used along with pushing more power for video cards through the bus rather than external power cables. This of course would mean new power supplies, motherboards, video cards, new slot designs, ect.

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Changing ram and SATA are just motherboard changes. Something as simple as flipping the PCI express slots over requires full platform changes from case manufactures, video card manufactures, and motherboard manufactures.