ASUS Demoes GeForce RTX 4070 with No External Power Connector

[Chrispy_]

And what exactly stops this from being standardized a few years down the road? It's new. It has to start somewhere.

There's far from zero benefits to this. How is the cable not being hidden? It's literally moved to the back of the motherboard tray along with all the others like the annoying USB front panel connectors.

In fairness I missed that this was a reversed board like the one MSI is showing.
It's a solution that just makes cases wider though (since now we need even more space behind the motherboard tray for cable bend radius AND plug+socket z-height.

I'd be less irritated by this if all of the major case and motherboard vendors had collaborated on an ATX+ reversed-board standard or something, but it's looking like Asus boards only work in Asus cases, and MSI boards only work in MSI cases.

I don't even like the idea, but I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is a bunch of conflicting proprietary formats.
IMO it's a solution looking for a problem. The problem is apparently "visible cables" but moving everything out of sight for the sake of vanity builds creates a new problem - woefully inefficient use of space.

 

[A Computer Guy]

In fairness I missed that this was a reversed board like the one MSI is showing.
It's a solution that just makes cases wider though (since now we need even more space behind the motherboard tray for cable bend radius AND plug+socket z-height.

I'd be less irrated by this if all of the major case and motherboard vendors had collaborated on an ATX+ reversed-board standard or something, but it's looking like Asus boards only work in Asus cases, and MSI boards only work in MSI cases.

I don't even like the idea, but I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is a bunch of conflicting proprietary formats.

It would have been nice if they used 90 degree angled connectors. then you don't need so much space.

 

[Chrispy_]

It would have been nice if they used 90 degree angled connectors. then you don't need so much space.

Yeah, with new GPUs getting unbelievably huge, it's almost insane that they're demoing concept designs that force the case to get even bigger than they already are. ATX is already horrendously dated and wasteful with space. It needs improving, not making worse!

Perhaps if you want a giant empty tower that contains mostly void space and RGBLED nonsense as some sort of e-peen, then great. The rest of us want a PC to do it's job and not take up half the room...

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Cool! Nice clean build there with fairly powerful GPU. Impressed.

Asus will prob charge like a wounded bull though : (

I agree but damn get rid of the proprietary bit and make it a general ATX spec, Please.

Because one manufacturer is just a death sentence, we are as enthusiasts a niche.

When it hits the BOM price, it's getting taken out of the BOM, since there's options and obviously OEM are cost sensitive.

As is would enough buy it to keep it as a thing viable?!.

Ps it looks x16 compatible IF it doesn't touch raised coolers IE, the power inlet fingers look to be raised such that there connection on the motherboard would have to stick out twice as far as the motherboard, but obviously they have no other power inlet , have they just covered optional power inlets with an RTX badge bit pointless otherwise..

If this is how things were, Standardized then I would like it.
Proprietary, stick it.

 

[claes]

It’s called diy-ape, think enermax has a case at Computex but afaik china only so far

MSI, Maxsun Make Back-Connector Motherboards Based on Asus's DIY-APE Standard

Hide all your motherboard cables behind your case.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Keullo-e]

AGP Pro did this already over 20 years ago.