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Motherboard Layout Suggestion

Florin
Level 7
As everybody is going crazy these days with cable management, why are there no Motherboards with the ATX connector at the bottom ? Since the power supply is mostly at the bottom of the case now, and eventually at 90° Angle, we have SATA ports this way, why not ATX connector also ? And move the USB 3 ports from bottom to somewhere up since those connectors on the Cases are usually up anyway ...

Also GPU power connectors ... always on the side... why not at the back of the GPU ? I know this way would make Card require a longer case .. but enthusiast will benefit from better cable management not being required to go over the GPU.
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chrsplmr
Level 18
I believe the power strip is placed where it is to get it as close to the cpu and memory as possible.
There would be undue heat up the board ... just a guess.
Nice thought though. .c.

Florin
Level 7
Yea, some guy also pointed this out, there are 2 solutions to this:

1. Get the case that has the board rotated at 90° inside, having all the GPU, and other connectors come out from the top of the case ( forgot the name of this case)

2. Design a new layout with Memory and CPU on the lower side but this would make the board incompatible with current ATX cases 🙂

But hell yeah ... somebody has to start from somewhere .. we are working on the same layout since 386/486 with minor changes. I think it`s time for some evolution inside the PCs .. for now they are a mess of cables .
i7-4790k + Corsair H80i | Asus Maximus VII Ranger | 16 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 | Sapphire R9-290 OC Vapor-X 4GB | Asus Xonar Phoebus + Audio Technica M50 | 1xSSD Corsair 120 GB | 4x1 TB Seagate HDD | Corsair CX750M | Corsair Carbide 300R | Razer Taipan + Logitech G11 | Windows 10 64bit