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motherboard manufacturers are trying to solve possibly the most annoying thing

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about building a PC Cable Management three of the largest

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companies that crank out motherboards ASUS MSI and Gigabyte all now offer

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boards that place most internal connectors on the back of the PCB with

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the idea being to let you build a PC with few to no cables showing but hold

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on a sec why exactly did it take so long for these companies to bring this to

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Market I mean the first American p was filed back in 2011 the answer is not

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only that there wasn't yet broad support from Hardware manufacturers but also

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that the priorities of the PCI DIY Community weren't quite the same as they

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are now let's start by talking about those priorities it really wasn't all

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that long ago that building or just buying a PC was primarily a means to an

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end you wanted to accomplish something specific on a PC play a game make a

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video call rederive calculus whatever so

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you built something in an opaque beige box that could accomplish that task and

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there was a good chance you didn't care too much about how it looked but as the

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years went on laptops tablets and smartphones became able to handle more

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and more functions that used to be the sole domain of desktop PCS meaning that

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a larger proportion of the remaining desktop PC Community was made up of

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enthusiasts who cared more than the average person about not just how their

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PC performed but how it looked during

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that time PC Aesthetics evolved gradually cases with Windows didn't

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start becoming common until the early to mid 2000s we didn't see Cable Management

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grommets until around 2010 and RGB

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didn't hit it big until the mid 2010s and of course modern social media

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platforms that allow Hardware manufacturers to easily get the pulse of

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the community haven't been around for very long but since they took off it's

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been clear from social media feedback that Aesthetics have only increased in

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importance for p PC enthusiasts we haven't proved that RGB makes things

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faster yet but we'll get there and there's an additional benefit aside from

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Aesthetics connectors on the rear mean that you won't have to worry about

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negotiating your way into tight spaces created by other components once you're

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ready to connect your cables the 8 Pin EPS connector is notoriously tricky

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manufacturers are hoping that not only will rear connectors look better but

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they'll also serve as a more builder friendly option to those folks who are

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interested in pcdiy but intimidated about taking the plunge and there are

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more of those people out there than you might think so that brings us to

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actually getting this idea to Market how did we get there although main gear

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filed a patent for the rear connector Concept in 2011 which other companies

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now license it wasn't until 2019 that

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ASUS showed us a rear motherboard connector on their concept Prime Utopia

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board Gigabyte then became the first major motherboard brand to bring a rear

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connector motherboard to Market in 2022 with project stealth followed by MSI's

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project zero in 2023 and ASUS's BTF in

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2024 and since the primary concern here is Aesthetics some boards also include

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shrouds that hide the unsightly solder marks that are now on the front of the

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board but hold everything how the heck

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does this work considering that most cases don't have the correct holes in

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the motherboard tray to plug in cables at the back well we'll tell you right

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you're going to need a new compatible case for these new motherboards to work

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Gigabyte collaborated with main gear to make a case for its project stealth

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products while MSI and ASUS both make their own cases now and also collaborate

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with outside case manufacturers in order to ensure you can actually hide all your

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cables without having to take a Dremel to your existing case unless you want to

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then that that I mean it's fun and in case you were wondering why these

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manufacturers can't just design the motherboard so the rear connectors poke

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out of the existing cutouts for CPU coolers there are just too many

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electronics already in that area for such a solution to be practical although

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the current lack of an open standard for rear connectors means you'll have to

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ensure that the case you want is specifically compatible with the

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particular motherboard brand you want this may not end up mattering too much

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in the long term lots of niceties that we're used to such as right angled SATA

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connectors top mounted radio radiators and the various RGB ecosystems don't

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have official standards defining them but they enjoy widespread support and

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interoperability so if rear connectors end up being in high demand from

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consumers you can bet that there will be plenty of compatible boards and cases to

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choose from but a possible wrinkle is how to handle the pesky fact that most

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graphics cards require extra power cables that connect to the top of the

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card oh no for now limited solution ions

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exist Gigabyte sells special cards that feature a connector on the bottom closer

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to the PCI Express contacts while ASUS sells cards with an extra smaller set of

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contacts for power that work with compatible ASUS motherboards while this

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limits which graphics cards you can use to get that totally clean look inside

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your case the hope is that more cards will adopt Solutions such as these as

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time goes on and the fact that ASUS Gigabyte and MSI also all manufactur

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graphics cards and cases means they also have the ability to push these rear

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connector ecosystems forward even if a particular outside company isn't

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interested but is any of this really a good idea well other than a small amount

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of increased cost to begin with due to these companies having to tweak their

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manufacturing slightly there aren't really any major drawbacks to rear

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mounting connectors but even with these benefits only time will tell if this new

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connector Paradigm will emerge as a widespread alternative to traditional

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cable routing and I know how much some of you like seeing that sweet RGB

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spaghetti every time you fire up your rig so we'll have to see and you know

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what I like to see is you coming to the end of this video how how'd you get here

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