how could something be so beautiful and yet a total hot mess I don't know you'll
have to ask my ex-wife hey disclaimer
it's part of a growing Trend in PC Hardware to take the icky messy cables
that have cluttered our gaming rigs for my entire life and hide them away by
moving all the connectors to the back of the motherboard and I mean sounds pretty
good to me it's not like we were using this space for anything else but not
everyone's happy with this Tri friend Paul's Hardware just posted a video
criticizing rearm mounted power connectors and he makes some pretty good
points computers don't run on Magic so
you still have to run cables from your power supply anyway there's no cooling
benefit to this whatever the marketing might tell you and this could turn out
to be a compatibility nightmare if every vendor goes down their own proprietary
path kind of like what's happened with RGB and that last one is my big biggest
concern about the future of zero cable Solutions I mean I don't want to buy a
new case every time I upgrade my motherboard fortunately I don't have to
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anything to go by is finally seeing his
vision come to life look at this no 24
pin no 8 Pin no front connectors at all
they're all on the back and if all goes according to his plans this am5 board is
just the start of the DIY ape Revolution
that will extend to many more components including redesigned gpus and power
supplies only time will tell if this is going to ultimately catch on or if we'll
end up seeing any of it outside of China but it's definitely something to keep an
eye on I got to say if I was looking for a starting point this is pretty much
where I'd want to be I would describe this as a premium mid-tier board it
obviously uses a b650 chipset but it's
got really robust IO including 20 GB per
second USBC Wi-Fi 6C 2 1/2 gig landan
and even a clear seos button super convenient it's got a robust vrm design
and cooling so as long as MSI engineered the BIOS correctly any am5 CPU should
run its best in here of course the star of the show is the rear mounted
connectors which should give our finished build an extraordinarily clean
look given the price of our board we're going to have links in the video description what we're aiming for today
is a great like pretty highend but also not Overkill build so we've gone with
the AMD ryzen 5 7600 X it's only $20
more than the bass 7600 now and I consider that a fair price for the
nearly 1 GHz increase in base clock speed and it's just a great gaming chip
with six super fast cores and support for the latest Technologies including
PCI E Gen 5 and ddr5 memory speaking of
which we've gone with a g-skill flare X5 ddr5 kit at 6,000 megat transfers per
second we had actually planned to stick with just 16 gigs but at $100 this 32
gig kit was less than $2 more than a 16
gig kit at the same speed lordy has RAM ever gotten cheap lately and so has
storage this 2 TB corer mp600 Pro would
have been more than $200 at the start of the year now it's available for just 140
bucks or at least the not stupid air
cooled one is that that's the one we're using it didn't matter because we were going to strip the heat sink off it
anyway to be clear there are a lot of good options out there for m.2 drives
right now but we like this one's mix of price and performance along with course
their solid reputation for being a trustworthy bro for their users with our
NVMe safely tucked away we can install our CPU Cooler we've gone with the nocta
nhl12s yes but instead of the normal low
profile fan haha um ha we've gone with this you
might have seen this in our recent computex coverage this is the Alpa cool
Apex stealth metal fan it uses a
patented decoupled design with separate housings O-rings and a plastic shroud
that results in according to them anyway I haven't heard it yet a very low noise
level they're totally modular and the zinc housing gosh is this thing ever
heavy is available in black white this
gorgeous Chrome that's going to look great with our build ah how awesome is
that and you heard it here first a special edition gold finish that they
just told us about this morning these aren't out yet but they're coming soon
and Alpha cool expects them to retail for $30 each that's a lot for a bang for
the butt gaming PC but we're also trying to achieve a certain
look here and that is
just uh oh here's something that didn't
really occur to me we need an extension to plug in this fan which is fine but
why would you have the connector for the CPU fan on the back then you just have
to run it around to the back actually
you know what a I still think this might be
better yeah I like it having the
connectors on the back of the motherboard definitely
um introduces some risk of
stabbing now we know also I really want
to rip off this daisy chain thing tuck it in tuck it in no no no tuck it in no
there's a cable right beside it no I'm taking it off no I'll do it properly
though okay all right all right goodbye give ala sorry goodbye daisy
chain there we go hey nice andle clean
now oh yeah that's more like it not
going to have that daisy chain cable hanging off my CPU fan that looks this
freaking awesome all of that brings us
to our case the fractal pop Min a at $90
is a well-built attractive microatx case
but that's not why we chose it see thing
is only a handful of cases are designed for the DIY ape connector scheme like
this one behind me from isus look at all those cutouts that's amazing so
realistically then I would have taken just about any case that has ample space
behind the motherboard tray where we're going to have all those connectors coming out which raises a question lonus
you absolute madman you just showed us that you already have the perfect case
for this build right there why aren't you using it ah the thing is that case
like the other DIY a models is China
exclusive meaning that if you're watching this video on YouTube you
aren't going to be able to get one so the way that I see it it's only fair
that I should share that same experience
plus I've already got the Dremel out
Jordan you're the one who mapped out approximately where the connectors need
to come through is that right that's right do you really intend for me to
remove all of this all of that uh
there's going to be like nothing left just a little sliver of metal holding
the motherboard tray into place that's why you want a a case specifically
designed for this generally you never have second
thoughts yep I'll take that face
shield spitting a lot of Steel into my face
it's not very white anymore is it you can fit so much clean build in
this bad
boy Stardust let's try blowing it out
man just carrying it over here I got a
nasty oh huh maybe there's hope for this
yet that's how we do peels in the big
time something yeah it's white again uh
uh-oh the motherboard
tray surely there are no metal shards
left in here that could short out our sensitive electronics and cut open our sensitive
hands uh is there a plan for that yeah
we got uh some gasket material to put around those holes so you're not going to cut yourself off this is not
perfect might be better than nothing though it's just this little kind of u
channel grommy stuff here uh it
definitely looks better than the heat destroyed raw edges screw it let's just
put the motherboard in okay um yeah sure
oh you know what that totally worked
uh I yeah I didn't really like the sound of that either oh could be related to my
fan cable here hold on no no no no wait wait wait wait hold on May it's all good
oh it's in this hole doesn't really line
up which got me thinking you know gee what's up with the tolerances on this
case cuz all these back ones I think when we cut it it might
have affected how it sits a little so
we're going to have these are going to be uh structural screws attached to a
structural motherboard and almost nothing else needs to go in here except
the big GPU that's going to ruin everything of course what we haven't
addressed is the situ ation at the back
looks like we almost have enough clearance to plug fan connectors in here
almost we need to do some fin angling there everything else though looks like
we almost nailed it oh uh-oh what's jfp2
here because it's covered covered in a way that has a rubber grommet and won't
short out that might also explain why the um this screw was hard to screw
in it'll probably work right yeah the
only way to know for sure is to plug in our power supply and see how it goes now
before you rush to the comments and tell us about how this thing is overkill we
ran into some logistical challenges for this video okay so we're using a seic
snow silent 150 wat power supply which
pairs perfectly with these custom length cable mod cables that we happen to have
kicking around in the warehouse if you were to recreate this build for yourself
I would strongly recommend something more in the range of 750 to 850 W and I
would also recommend picking up something that is compatible with custom
length cables because otherwise you're going to take your cable management
problem in the front of the case and you're just going to move a cable management problem to the back of the
case we want to have something that's not so long that we've got a whole bunch
of extra to hide back here and this is
actually looking like it might
close uh how sure are we that this back side
panel is going to close Jordan uh 80%
from here that is very low um I feel
like uhoh what was that that was a
motherboard tray that is not very strong anymore letting go I think wait what
what just happened oh this screw came out like just totally came out maybe one
of them somehow is 632 this isn't a brand new case it's been used before so
maybe somebody screwed up and put the wrong stand off there that's what I'm
hoping for and that is in fact what it was oh
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one but you guys get the point editor cleverly replace this with the noct one
in my hand hey that one two different
color schemes you know what though this is great for making videos I was just
standing here thinking now I have to turn the case around and do this and
then do that no now I have to just stand
here and plug in all the connectors this is awesome that is a wow that is a very
high-profile connector yes they do make right angle
adapters for that whoa no way
no way no way past lonus or
realistically past Alex probably bought
this nice no
way this way no no no no no no no that's
okay that's okay that's okay that's okay see we're going to come down like
this oh yeah not bad at all that just
saved the day I mean how uncool would that be like oh nice nice cable free
system too bad none of the ports work I'm not going to lie this is tripping me
out a little bit though I just don't know which way is up and which way is
right and I'm in Topsy Turvy land uh my
front panel audio thing is here cuz that
makes perfect sense Y in Mirror reality
and I don't know Paul I think I might kind of like it how's the underside of
that bus Paul wow that is so clean and I didn't even have
to do that much work on the cable management back here okay I mean we
needed this special adapter other than that pretty
easy okay wish me luck everyone
luck how about good luck luck you didn't specify no it needs to be good luck you
have you don't wish people bad luck I just wish you luck luck of any form okay
hey
that is sick and other than getting your hands on the motherboard all you need to
recreate this build is a few dollars in Dremel cutting discs oh and you'll
probably want to change the power supply to a more reasonable one and you'll
probably want to change the GPU see thing is we wanted to use a Radeon 6950
XT that thing is a flipping awesome
value right now but again our choices
were dictated it a little bit by
Aesthetics this Gigabyte Arrow RTX 470
looks flipping awesome and that is the
only real justification that we have for choosing this over the 6950 XT truth is
that it's kind of hard to justify any NVIDIA card right now at least unless
you're spending over $1,000 which we are
not oh actually before we put this in
this is another really cool idea from ape instead of having this 16 pin
connector out here where it's going to stick out and look all gross he had the
idea of hiding it in between the fins
here so it just kind of like I don't know was hidden kind of ingenious
because of the ease of this build we haven't gotten as much overhead footage from our nexico camera up here as we
otherwise might have but this is a pretty good opportunity the m.2 cover
had to come off and the Order of Operations here is very important so
that's going to go there then this is going to go back on with this removed
whoops this is going to go
here nice oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah I mean as far as ugly cable messes go
that's pretty acceptable hey yeah that
is not bad okay all right I'm okay with
it if that's all the cable that I have to
look at in my system forget about it check this
out look how heavy that freaking fan is
just hitting the tables like who it's as quiet as they say it is
though I'm looking forward to hearing it or not hearing it what do you think
Colin is it going to post oh that's a good sign wait what
security violation B
okay all our memory is detected CPU turboing over 5 GHz comfortably there is
something we need to adjust we need to make sure that we have our XMP profile
enabled but otherwise a successful build
and man that looks so good that big security
error was just because we had this plugged in and TPMS enabled so it got
really unhappy that we were trying to boot from this USB
drive I don't love the amount of work it was but I love this
computer like
wow I just want to do a Qui cin bench here to see if we're going to get oh did
it just freeze see that's the thing I wanted to do just a couple quick
benchmarks and see if this thing performs as normal works as normal
because small brand motherboards sometimes they don't turbo properly and
stuff like that then again the whole BIOS was all MSI MSI branded and
everything and oh oh it looks like it
actually oh it might have just been cinn bench that crashed okay it's running
again there is some weirdness Hardware
info is not reporting core temperatures for some reason but it's turboing just
fine we're running at 4.8 GHz and performance here looks totally in line
with what I'd expect for a 7600 X maybe I just don't over think it for now how
about games I don't know what's more impressive the fact that this thing just
immediately worked exactly as expected or the fact that it is so flipping quiet
right now we are turboing to 5 GHz right
now our gpus at nearly 3
GHz and this whole computer is nearly silent like my microphone's right
here just whoosh you know what I'm
really curious about though how much of it is the metal
fan
wow that does not sound like a fan that
is spinning that fast and this is really
impressive the frequency makes it really easy to block
out even with a glass panel I can barely hear it I really want to do something
about the power connector on the GPU whether it's an additional slot at the
back of the card like we've seen from Apple and ASUS in the past or whether
it's just hiding the connector better like ape suggested but overall this is a
pretty clever idea that does make a clean build a lot easier well easier at
least it's properly adapted case design
ultimately then with the combination of a new motherboard standard that requires
new case designs from case manufacturers and piling on the potential additional
Innovations in GPU power supply and
cooler design ape still has a long road ahead of him in getting this adopted but
I wish him luck because Paul's ultimately right that not everyone wants
to mod their case and we need someone anyone who has a Clear Vision to push
this thing forward rather than leaving motherboard manufacturers to just pursue
their own independent paths I mean that's why we still have front panel
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