Is this the future of motherboards? ASUS' "Back To the Future" could be a gamechanger

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Is this the future of motherboards? ASUS' "Back To the Future" could be a gamechanger

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[Warchild]

I have wanted this solution for years, but doing such a change requires a whole new catalogue of PC cases where the MOBO tray adopts cut outs for you to connect to these.

Question is if these manufacturers would invest in such a thing if only ASUS adopts this move.

 

[dazbobaby]

I'm in agreement with Warchild, and it's about damn time, though I can see it killing Cablemods.


As long as there's space in the case, and most cases can't accommodate a header and a cable poking out, why not take it further and mount them at 90 degrees so the cables lay even flatter?

 

[AlienALX]

I'm in agreement with Warchild, and it's about damn time, though I can see it killing Cablemods.

I've only ever bought from them once. Their extensions and cables cost double over anything else. I am amazed they are still around.

 

[Warchild]

I'm in agreement with Warchild, and it's about damn time, though I can see it killing Cablemods.


As long as there's space in the case, and most cases can't accommodate a header and a cable poking out, why not take it further and mount them at 90 degrees so the cables lay even flatter?

90 degrees can be horrible. I have them on my Maximus extreme boards. If you buy cablemods which are addressed in an arch, it makes things even worse. I also found it inconvenient when unplugging as you cant always get a good grip on them (not always possible to grab it from behind while putting pressure on the latch to release the ATX connector)

 

[Greenback]

The next follow up to this is a GPU with power connectors on the inside next to the PCIE slot and the motherboard having a hole you can poke the cable trough directly into the gpu

 

[MainSource77]

this has already been done, its called the gigabyte stealth, the motherboard and a 3090 graphics card with rear facing pci e ports which match the motherboards cutouts, other than the gpu the asus has copied them to a t. its still nice seeing this become less of an exotic thing.

 

[Greenback]

Well looks like Gigabyte beat me to the idea

 

[Dicehunter]

I've only ever bought from them once. Their extensions and cables cost double over anything else. I am amazed they are still around.

Their quality isn't any better than any others either but their prices are ludicrous.

 

[AlienALX]

Their quality isn't any better than any others either but their prices are ludicrous.

Of course not. There is only so much you can do with some woven plastic braiding to be honest.

I bought a few of their mod cables back when they first came out, and they all fell out of the combs I had because they were so thin.

Most of the cheaper ones I have bought have been in paracord, which is cheaper. However the last set? were made in Italy and cost me £27. And they are every bit as good as the CM ones I paid £48 for that had £10 off.

 

[KingNosser]

it really comes down to case uptake and modders and being honest more motherboards.

as for cables while i like generally looks i'm not into full detail to want style over function it would be nice true but some of the prices erm nope better spent to other things or upgrades.

it's like anything want vs need for me it's always need and i'd rather put funds to other things thou i'll be honest i do spend on small touches outside of the bigger things.

still good but i think it needs uptake to really become anything more than the 0.5% buying it so i can see this costing as tooling etc for manufacture small changes like these can end up costing a lot for a company so it's pretty risky for them if it doesnt pay off or they just put prices high.