Too bad a motherboard standard hasn't been introduced that puts the CPU socket on the "backside" of the motherboard. With a case designed for such a specification, the heatsink could draw in cool outside air directly, and even exhaust it back the outside. Also, the heatsink could literally be the size of the side of the case.
Of course, we are talking about an industry that each time that when switching from PCI to PCI Express, missed the opportunity to flip the components to the other side of the board (as they were with ISA boards), so that heat producing components (especially on the graphics card) would be facing upward in a tower case.
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Too bad a motherboard standard hasn't been introduced that puts the CPU socket on the "backside" of the motherboard. With a case designed for such a specification, the heatsink could draw in cool outside air directly, and even exhaust it back the outside. Also, the heatsink could literally be the size of the side of the case.
Of course, we are talking about an industry that each time that when switching from PCI to PCI Express, missed the opportunity to flip the components to the other side of the board (as they were with ISA boards), so that heat producing components (especially on the graphics card) would be facing upward in a tower case.