Errius wrote on 2024-09-04, 07:27:

Do modern cases still have these supports?

If the case manufacturer wants to support the use of "Full length PCI" then yes they do.
Its part of the standard. Its not something that some manufacturers decide to put in their cases and some dont.
Some decide to support the standard and some dont.
A lot, in fact all, of the modern gamers cases dont actually support any of the standard standards which is why some of them work and some of them dont, and because those modern gamer cases are all you seem to see advertised online these days you get the impression nobody makes standard compliant full size cases these days.

Which vendors used the fin in the past 25 ish years? and can you tell them apart? Like Dell, Alienware?, Apple, ... are there more? For example I never buy cards with the fin because if it's Apple cards they might not work on PC. But I imagine Dell and the others will work just fine.

Wes1262 wrote on 2024-09-04, 14:12:

Which vendors used the fin in the past 25 ish years? and can you tell them apart? Like Dell, Alienware?, Apple, ... are there more? For example I never buy cards with the fin because if it's Apple cards they might not work on PC. But I imagine Dell and the others will work just fine.

On video cards I know only Dell to have used it in recent years. Some Quadro cards Ive seen have them and they seem to have come from Dell systems.
There are some other cards that pop up too like the one at the start of this thread.

I honestly dont know if there are any modern full length PCI/PCIe cards, most RAID controllers seem to have drifted away from that form factor in favour of shorter cards and they mount their BBU on a wire off the card. But 20 years ago they were the norm for enterprise RAID controllers and such.
The card I took some photos of is just that. a relic these days of a by gone age of computing that is hardly remembered.