Curses to scan!

Well, the PC is almost all here. All except the motherboard, processor and blu-ray drive which, as you of course know, are quite important. As the title says, Curses to Scan! There is another problem which also has to be addressed, however, and that's the fact that the lack of a standard length for graphics cards means that I have a case (the Antec three hundred) which won't actually fit the graphics card I have (4850X2).

Now I know that there is a very good reason that the 4850X2 is so utterly massive, but who wouldn't benefit from a standard length for graphics cards being set down? Even a few standards, in the same way as there exists ATX, m-ATX, extended ATX etc. for motherboards. So we could have the BGF (Basic Graphics Form-factor), m-BGF, extended BGF and so on. Suddenly all the guess work is taken out of fitting a graphics card to a case - both will list sizes, all you have to do is match them up. It wouldn't even have to invlove any sort of major redesign for cases or graphics cards - just classify what currently exists and add them to the spec sheets. Hell, we don't even need to classify anything - just add the max length graphics card supported to a case's spec sheet. Graphics cards already have physical dimensions in their specs, so I guess what I'm saying is: Case manufacturers - sort this shit out.

That is all.