AngryAce
stalinx20
AngryAce
hakujin
Why don't you just build the card with the plugs oriented towards the end to start with?
When I built my new machine, I mentioned that to my woman. I said with all the emphasis enthusiasts place on looks and cable management, I wonder why they still put the power ports in the front..... These power links will work great but be nice to put them at the backend as you mention from the get go.....
Talk about a pain in the rear... Let me get this right, putting the connectors on the back of the card, right? I can see so many people installing their card, screwing in the screws, and then realizing they didn't connect the PCI connectors. Now they have to unscrew the screws, take out the card, and repeat the process. Now, it could be possible to do all that without taking the card out, but there would be some difficulties in doing it that way. The other problem is that this would cause the risk of the connectors hitting the back of the case, not to mention hitting the motherboard as well, so custom cases would possibly be required. Not everybody is into that luxury. It's not feasible to put it on the back compared to the front. The side no doubt, but not the rear of the card.
What are you talking about? I don't think anyone is suggesting placing power connectors that are facing the motherboard.
It just sounded like you were implying that because you stated "I wonder why they still put the power ports in the front", which made me think you were thinking they should put them on the back of the card. My bad. They should just go ahead and put the connectors on the side which the EVGA power connector will do.
Some cases have the PSU in the back of their PC while the main components are in the front compartment, and when we bring that power plug from the back to the front either 1) it's not long enough, or 2) it just looks real silly and stupid. I see one problem with the EVGA power connector, the chances of the power plugs now hitting the fans on the front. Easy fix though, but still, there's always something or "one thing leads to another".
What I would like to see for "power plugs" going to the GPUs, are 90 degree plug-ins. If they're out and they exist, I would like a point of direction to get these. What I'm wanting is a similar type of connection like the SLI bridge, but it would go one both power connections on both plugs, preferably black which would be a hard plastic like the SLI bridge (not the flimsy one).