The 6 worst PC hardware trends that rightfully disappeared
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It's hard to imagine how many bad PC hardware trends lasted for as long as they did. Here are 6 of the worst ones ever.
  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    The blower gpu fans were definitely a trend. I remember buying third party coolers and strapping 120mm fans onto them with zip ties.

    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Blower fans had a technical reason to exist that isn’t very relevant anymore.

      It used to be to keep the card profile low so you could have other PCI card slots populated. However these days everything including Wifi can be found pre populated on the motherboard. It is rare you put in any additional PCI cards in modern personal systems.