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Actually, the TOP of the card is the shiny/fancy bit. PCI was designed to make you insert the card UPSIDE-DOWN in an attempt to stop punters from putting the cards in the old ISA slots. AGP and PCI-X just followed suit for no real reason.
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Actually, the TOP of the card is the shiny/fancy bit. PCI was designed to make you insert the card UPSIDE-DOWN in an attempt to stop punters from putting the cards in the old ISA slots. AGP and PCI-X just followed suit for no real reason.