Gigabyte isn’t the only vendor opting to put power connectors on the back side of its graphics processors.
In late 2008, your author built a killer SFF PC using a Shuttle XPC case. Inside was a Core 2 Extreme QX9650, 16 GB of DDR3 memory, an Intel X25-M SSD, and a GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 graphics card. Unfortunately, he had to spend a couple of hours modifying the case to fit the big fat GeForce card—not because of the card itself, but because of the PCIe power connectors sticking off the front end.
In the words of an endless tide of 1990s late-night infomercials, there has to be a better way! Indeed, as it happens, some Gigabyte engineer had a brainwave and decided to stick the graphics power connectors for a GPU on the backside of the card.
