Why are we still calling these things “cards” when they have been bricks for some time now
Why are we still calling these things “cards” when they have been bricks for some time now
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Because if you pop the heatsink off it’s still a card.
“Add-in card”.
Definitely, but the sound on the tongue “Graphics Bricks” just doesn’t sound right, I just call them mini heaters.
Call it a GPU then
The card is still there. It’s the heatsinks that are attached to it that are the bricks.
i mean you know the block you see is a heat sink right
It’s still a card without the fans and the heatsink so no
some people call them boards. after all, the category of part is called add-in board
Thought I was on r/anarchychess for a minute
Wait till you hear about sticks
Now the cards should be the laptops
I call them Garnets.
This joke was brought to you by a Yu-Gi-Oh player.
Watercool them..
normalize graphic bricks
My bricks been bricked doesn’t have the same ring to it, a little too on the nose
Graphicsbricks
Especially with ITX, it’s more like you plug the mobo into the GPU.
Old gpu’s didn’t get hot enough to require heat sinks. They also didn’t run much beyond 480 p for screen resolution.
you could call it a chip considering that’s what’s doing the work
Because in german it would then be called a Grafikziegelstein
Inside every brick is a card
Meanwhile we call powerbricks bricks even tho my largest (300W) brick is smaller than my graphicsbrick
1st is breakfast 2nd is lunch 3rd is dinner 4th is brick
They’re as big as mother boards now
I still expect we’ll have a radical redesign of computer components to align with these no longer being add on parts.
I mean we still use the term bug for when something is broken in a program even though there aren’t literal bugs ruining them anymore.
Remove cooling – still it’s the card. But generating a lot of heat.