Correct, but in the end the thing most people will notice and like is a way cleaner build. Hopefully other manufacturers are able to follow suit with something like this.
Yea this actually. Case builders would love this because diy people would be all over it and buying new cases slash motherboard trays. Me.. I'd just get out a Dremel tool if needed.
I have a Dremel, and many other tools, sharp and not so much, that I'd be willing to apply to a case to fit one of these. It would not be the first time I've... "abused" a personal case to fit hardware. Obviously review cases are reviewed as delivered
.Or you know go to cablemods and just order cables pinned for your power supply at the appropriate lengths.I have a Dremel, and many other tools, sharp and not so much, that I'd be willing to apply to a case to fit one of these. It would not be the first time I've... "abused" a personal case to fit hardware. Obviously review cases are reviewed as delivered
Only downside to this I can see is that all power supply and most fan cables (and any other cables) are sized for having to be run through the motherboard tray and be plugged in to all those awkward upward-facing connectors.
That leaves a lot of slack on the backside of the motherboard - you can certainly go to town bundling them all up, but in addition to motherboard manufacturers potentially following Gigabyte's idea / lead here, you then of course have cases that need revisions, and you'll probably want to look at power supplies with appropriately shortened cables. And then the GPU with the power on the bottom - which assumes that the GPU is longer than the motherboard, and is installed directly into a PCIe slot, i.e. without a riser cable or riser board.
It's a lot of variables covering a lot of industries to cover, and you'd pretty much need all of it to happen at once to take advantage of the benefits.
Not that I'm above doing that where needed, but man, that can cost more than a premium PSU.
I don't know but what a pain in the *** it would be to test. I'd have to figure out some way of doing that unless I got a compatible case with the review sample.
Literally my first thought when someone mentioned too bad you need a case specifically made for this.
I am not a hack. I prefer to use properly engineered things over crap I cut up with a dremel.
You waste your money on whatever you want. I'd rather whip out the dremel than my wallet.
Yea I watched the LTT video and was actually bothered when he decided to shave on the connector rather than fix the case. Makes me think the case was on loan and he wasn't allowed to mess with it.