MSI Motherboard moves the cable connectors to the rear

[SpyderTracks]

This is quite frankly fantastic and I really hope they move forward with this, apparently both Asus and Gigabyte are working on their own designs too

Basically all the motherboard connectors are switched round to the rear of the motherboard, obviously you need a case to support this design which MSI are working on too

 

[SpyderTracks]

And here's the Asus attempt

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/339993-asus-wants-to-spark-a-revolution-to-hide-all-pc-cables

 

[Martinr36]

Interesting idea, but wont the cases need to be that bit wider to accommodate the plugs

 

[SpyderTracks]

Interesting idea, but wont the cases need to be that bit wider to accommodate the plugs

Yep, they're developing cases for the format, it's essentially a new ATX standard, but just having watched a few videos from Computex, Lian Li, InWin and Deepcool were all demoing cases that were pretty fully modular, including being able to swap out the motherboard mounting plate to accomodate different ATX standards, pretty cool

 

[Steveyg]

There are already some cases that I are wide more to hide the PSU in the back so you don't see it in the front. Would really suit that kind of case I'd imagine but they'd need to be rejigged to allow the ports through the backplate

A modular backplate could be a reasonable solution

 

[TonyCarter]

Just need 1000w wireless PSUs, motherboards and GPUs now

 

[TonyCarter]

Yep, they're developing cases for the format, it's essentially a new ATX standard, but just having watched a few videos from Computex, Lian Li, InWin and Deepcool were all demoing cases that were pretty fully modular, including being able to swap out the motherboard mounting plate to accomodate different ATX standards, pretty cool

Can I have that chandelier one from InWin please...reminds me of the Silicon Graphics logo/sculpture:

...or the NeXT logo: