MSI’s Project Zero continues the war on motherboard cables
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Threading cables to and from the energy supply to the motherboard and various substances has been a headache for PC builders for decades. However what would occur ought to you would possibly per chance well per chance also valid tuck them out of the manner? That’s MSI’s Venture Zero, designed for AMD Ryzen builds, that MSI showed off at Computex.
Venture Zero locations the cables on the support of the case, plumbing by the connectors to the underside of the motherboard the attach a skinny gap permits the cables to snake by with out impeding airflow. That’s the main. While a largely cable-less central chamber would possibly per chance well per chance also explore contemporary and neat (and it does!) the foundation is to eradicate any barriers to that sweet, sweet wintry air because it flows internal the chassis.
Pointless to declare, you’ll desire a motherboard that includes this, and that’s the assorted share of the puzzle: a microATX Venture Zero board that MSI plans, too. For now, the board is built around a B650, AMD’s mainstream chipset for the AM5 socket broken-down by the Ryzen 7000 series. We don’t hold pricing for this yet, but we know that this will ship at some point in the 2nd half of the three hundred and sixty five days.
For these that will be thinking, hey, this feels roughly acquainted — smartly, you’re apt. Gigabyte and Aorus tipped off Venture Stealth last three hundred and sixty five days, which also routes the connectors down by the board to the support, and hides them in the support of the case. The adaptation? Venture Stealth was an ATX board. MSI plans an ATX board as smartly, but that’s coming in due course. Gordon Ung walks you by what all this style in our video, beneath.
What’s even higher is that MSI sounds treasure that they’re willing to work with various board vendors, too. We don’t hold a formal, collaborative title for all of this, but it absolutely sounds treasure there’s no longer lower than a willingness to will abet you to combine and match these styles of compact, reversed boards in due course. And that’s good knowledge for every person.
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Author: Save Hachman, Senior Editor
As PCWorld’s senior editor, Save makes a speciality of Microsoft knowledge and chip technology, among various beats. He has beforehand written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.
