this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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PSU in the top, old round keyboard and mouse plugs... I get it, you shouldn't touch anything in a museum.
... did they stop putting PSUs at the top?
Always at the bottom these days
My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I've seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I've never owned one, so hearing that they're always at the bottom is weird to me.
Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it's a wide case. No where in the top of the case.
Just turn the case around. Problem solved.
But then your desktop will be upside down on your monitor, as obviously your harddrives will be upside down. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to watch upside down porn?
Just flip your monitors upsidedown.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
Case closed.
Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they're so uncommon.
It may be different with brand specific cases for prebuilds like Dell and Alienware (which is Dell too by the way), but it's never recommended to buy those.
I have an old case that takes a PSU at the top.
I bought a PSU made for being at the bottom, and placing it in their meant giving it the CPU heat in its intake. It felt like it would burn up any minute.
I took some used aluminium cans, cut them up using expensive scissors (~5x the price of normal scissors, in turn, it won't go bad, cutting plastic boxes and aluminium sheet) and made a frame to mount the PSU on the top, instead of inside the case.
The wires had to go around, making it a partially open case, but it worked. No feeling of imminent fire hazard and the PSU was exhausting air at a relieving temperature.