reference image if you have no idea what I’m talking about:
I know this is a minor nitpick, but it’s something that annoys me.
I got this graphics card mostly because it was the best deal on Amazon at the time (gpu shortage), and I also thought it looked decent from the images they had. However, when I actually installed it, all I see is the relatively unattractive looking black metal backplate with some white text. The other side is always the side shown in the promotional images too - not a single one of the pictures in the Amazon listing even shows the side that you’ll be seeing 99.9% of the time. Do they think everyone hangs their PCs above them from the ceiling, or has open-air testbenches? Why do they never even bother with the other side? I know they want the fans on the bottom so the cooling is better, but the air in front of the CPU shouldn’t be that bad, a lot of cheaper GPUs don’t need that much cooling, and a ton of people have watercooling now anyways so the CPU radiators just go on the sides.
A lot of modern gpus are flow through designs where they dump hot air right in front of the CPU. If the GPU was flipped it would be sucking air away from the CPU.
The up side to ATX pointing the GPUs down is you can make the heatsink as big as you want. With BTX the GPU heatsink will start running into the CPU.