The most well liked pattern at Computex 2023 is The Conflict on Cables, through which PC accent producers are doing every little thing they’ll to cover energy and knowledge cables in PC builds. Whereas quite a lot of the options up to now have been very particular to at least one model, like Corsair’s proprietary iCue Hyperlink daisy chain cooling or Asus’ motherboard-GPU combo, case maker SilverStone is right here to supply some extra modular, wide-open options. Gordon Ung reviews from the entrance strains.
SilverStone provides a pair of latest full-sized ATX PC circumstances, the C-341 and C-542, each of that are suitable with motherboards which have rear-facing energy and knowledge cable connections. That allows you to route all of your energy provide rails on the again of the case, successfully making each cable (besides these on your GPU and no matter’s cooling your processor) disappear. The MSI and Asus motherboards on show within the circumstances on the present ground show how clear the interior builds are, even utilizing elements from totally different producers. Even the rear of the circumstances are barely wider to accommodate all these cables.
The SilverStone C-341 is very attention-grabbing, as a result of it flips the standard inner motherboard format for circumstances. The motherboard is mounted to the left facet of the case’s body, not the precise, and the precise facet of the case is open to entry the first chamber. With the bottom-mounted energy provide, that places the PCIe ports on the highest of the case as a substitute of the underside, which could make warmth administration lots simpler— you possibly can exhaust these followers proper out of the highest of the enclosure. Neat.
Each circumstances are full retail designs, not ideas, so they need to be hitting the market later this yr. For extra updates on the newest PC {hardware} tendencies, be sure you subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube.
