If there’s something bothering any current PC it’s having to perform proper “cable management” which is also aesthetically pleasing. Routing cables into any enclosure and system is a challenge, which is why GIGABYTE and its R&D team carried out a project that would simplify this almost to the extreme, where it showed the first results: AORUS Project Stealth.
Sheathed cables, brackets, cable routers and endless accessories just to make a PC look much more aesthetic, not functional. The industry was forgetting that last part, functionality, but GIGABYTE and its concept can change everything because although innovative in sight, in practice it is subtle changes that really change everything to do with wiring.
Conceptual design AORUS Project Stealth
Better cable management, so simple and complicated at the same time and a small work of art in the hands of GIGABYTE which, on the other hand, would change a lot of the PC case / chassis industry.
The concept is simple: leave no visible cables and deliberately hide them behind the frame so that everything is also better structured aesthetically, more functional. How to do it? Easy: by twisting the connectors and moving them to the back 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 pure 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 to the opposite common side of the PCB at 90º as before, mainly because it would take a very large casing for the connector to go around with its cables.
The solution could be through an “L” shaped connector, but as of yet it has not been designed and may not even be electrically possible given the current draw.
All secondary connectors changed
But it’s not just there, but all secondary connectors would now be connected from the back of the box, such as PWM, USB 3.0 or 2.0, as well as connection switches for the tower. Even the stack of plates is on the back.
In addition to motherboards with this Stealth concept, GPUs would also do the same by moving their 6 or 8 pin connectors on the back of the PCB so that they connect from the back in a much easier way without a big headache. . 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 a product showcase with it at CES 2022. The problem is that now case and chassis makers would have to change their designs to update this, so if the cases are out of date. Currently, they couldn’t install new hardware for the most part, forcing the user to change chassis somehow if they wanted a stealth system like this.
