Threading cables to and from the facility provide to the motherboard and different parts has been a headache for PC builders for many years. However what would occur should you may simply tuck them out of the best way? That’s MSI’s Mission Zero, designed for AMD Ryzen builds, that MSI confirmed off at Computex.
Mission Zero places the cables on the again of the case, plumbing by the connectors to the underside of the motherboard the place a skinny hole permits the cables to snake by with out impeding airflow. That’s the important thing. Whereas a largely cable-less central chamber might look contemporary and clear (and it does!) the concept is to remove any obstacles to that candy, candy cool air because it flows contained in the chassis.
After all, you’ll want a motherboard that accommodates this, and that’s the opposite piece of the puzzle: a microATX Mission Zero board that MSI plans, too. For now, the board is constructed round a B650, AMD’s mainstream chipset for the AM5 socket utilized by the Ryzen 7000 sequence. We don’t have pricing for this but, however we all know that it’s going to ship someday within the second half of the 12 months.
For individuals who is perhaps pondering, hey, this feels sort of acquainted — nicely, you’re proper. Gigabyte and Aorus tipped off Mission Stealth final 12 months, which additionally routes the connectors down by the board to the again, and hides them behind the case. The distinction? Mission Stealth was an ATX board. MSI plans an ATX board as nicely, however that’s coming sooner or later. Gordon Ung walks you thru what all this implies in our video, under.
What’s even higher is that MSI feels like that they’re prepared to work with different board distributors, too. We don’t have a proper, collaborative title for all of this, but it surely feels like there’s at the least a willingness to help you combine and match these types of compact, reversed boards sooner or later. And that’s excellent news for everyone.
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