{"id":395,"date":"2025-01-14T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:16:21","slug":"at-ces-i-noticed-msis-undertaking-zero-x-may-this-be-the-future-look-of-desktop-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"At CES, I Noticed MSI’s Undertaking Zero X. May This Be the Future Look of Desktop PCs?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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LAS VEGAS<\/em>\u2014Desktop computer systems<\/a> are filled with wires, full cease. That is not going to alter anytime quickly. However many devoted PC builders (to not point out boutique-PC construct outlets) are obsessive about\u2014or make their residing at\u2014clear cable routing and maintaining the inside of a PC pin-neat. That is very true lately, when a clear case facet (or two, or three…) is normal problem for many fanatic desktops you see.<\/p>\n

Over the previous 12 months, one response to that drive for cable-cleanup aesthetics has been the “reverse connector” motherboard, of which MSI and Asus are right now’s two main proponents. These boards aren’t, feature-wise, all that completely different from their atypical kin. The place they diverge: They’ve their cable sockets and header connectors\u2014most every little thing that will get a wire hooked up to it\u2014on the board’s again as a substitute of its entrance. Paired up with specifically designed PC circumstances which have correctly aligned holes for the reverse-side connectors, these motherboards allow you to join your entire cables behind the board and, subsequently, out of sight.<\/p>\n

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Asus dubs its reverse-connector answer Again to the Future (BTF), whereas MSI’s is Undertaking Zero. I did a check construct of Undertaking Zero<\/a> within the run-up to 2024’s version of CES, and a colleague test-drove the Asus BTF ecosystem<\/a> a couple of months in the past in the identical method. The options are comparable, and also you simply must match up a reverse-connector board with a case that helps that individual ecosystem to get going. (Some circumstances assist each BTF and Undertaking Zero.)<\/p>\n

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MSI, although, is escalating the cable-quashing battle, at the very least in prototype type, with a brand new initiative it is calling Undertaking Zero X. It follows the identical common strategy as the unique, but it surely takes on the final cable frontier\u2014the cables protruding of the rear fringe of your PC\u2014and places them completely out of sight.<\/p>\n\n

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