I don’t get “why hasn’t anyone done this before” moments very often but when I saw this I thought that. The ASUS ROG BTF video cards and motherboards put the power on the bottom of the card and plugs into the motherboard. They should put this in the PCI standard.
yeah, the only reason I can reasonably think of why they haven’t done it before is because it is too expensive to implement for some reason and they would, of course, have to pass that cost on to the consumer.
But I’ve often wondered why this hasn’t been done before myself. It seems like such an obvious thing to do.