If there is something that bothers in any current PC it is the fact of having to carry out a correct «cable management» that is also aesthetic. Routing cables in any box and system is challenging, so GIGABYTE and its R&D team have carried out a project that would simplify this almost to the extreme, where it has shown the first results: AORUS Project Stealth.
Sleeved cables, brackets, cable routers and endless accessories just to make a PC look much more aesthetic, not functional. The industry was forgetting about this last part, the functionality, but GIGABYTE and its concept can change everything because although it is innovative in sight, in practice they are subtle changes that really modify everything related to the wiring.
Concept design AORUS Project Stealth
Better cable management, as simple and complicated at the same time as that and a little work of art from the hands of GIGABYTE that, on the other hand, would change the PC case / chassis industry to a great extent.
The concept is simple: do not leave any cables visible and deliberately hide them behind the chassis so that everything is also better aesthetically structured, more functional. How to do it? Easy: by twisting the connectors and having them relocate to the rear of the motherboard, that is, the cables are not connected from the front, but from the back.
The connector would be soldered on the opposite or opposite side of the socket, where, as can be seen and by sheer logic, the only one that remains perpendicular to the PCB is the 24-pin connector. It is impossible, at least for the moment, to be soldered on the opposite common side of the PCB at 90º as before, mainly because a very wide box would be needed so that the connector could make the turn with its cables.
The solution could go through an «L» shaped connector, but at the moment it has not been designed and it may not even be electrically possible given current consumption.
All secondary connectors modified
But this is not only there, but all the secondary connectors would now be connected through the back of the box, such as PWM, USB 3.0 or 2.0, as well as connection switches for the tower. Even the plate stack sits at the rear.
In addition to the motherboards with this Stealth concept, the GPUs would also do the same by moving their 6 or 8-pin connectors to the back of the PCB so that they connect from behind in a much easier way without major headaches. The problem here logically is that the PCBs would be oversized to be longer than the width of the motherboard, including the E-ATX, so all GPUs with this design would be very long.
The concept is certainly very interesting and there are rumors of product presentation with it at CES 2022. The problem is that now the manufacturers of boxes and chassis would have to change their designs to update to this, so if the boxes are trending Currently, they could not install new hardware for the most part, forcing the user to change chassis in some way if they wanted a Stealth system like this.