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Have I just never realized that the sockets of video cards are "upside down" when inserted? ๐ Or is this an illusion created by how expansion card are displayed when advertised?
I can't believe I have been building PCs for five years and never reacted to this before.
Always consider the heat flow in the box. Adding something new and taking up space changes how much air gets to places, and how it flows. Might consider another fan (although whether you want more pushing or pulling is a debated topic), and maybe using the GPU fan to control that is a good idea.. In my mind, cooling is like memory... you can't have enough.
I have two spare Noctua fans that I could install at the bottom of the case. The top already has three, CPU cooling tower has two (horizontal) and the one visible in the picture above. The 3080 that I swapped for these archaic video cards had three powerful fans on its own, but then again, it generated massive amounts of heat. I'm looking forward to learn how much heat these cards will generate. ๐
Sounds okay, but don't forget, pumping it out of the case isn't enough. If you're in a small room, it could get toasty. Won't really affect the computer much, but there's a reason why server rooms are kept cold.