The hottest development at Computex 2023 is The War on Cables, during which PC accent producers are doing every part they will to cover energy and knowledge cables in PC builds. While lots of the options to date have been very particular to 1 model, like Corsair’s proprietary iCue Link 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 traces.

SilverStone presents a pair of recent full-sized ATX PC circumstances, the C-341 and C-542, each of that are appropriate with motherboards which have rear-facing energy and knowledge cable connections. That enables you to route all of your energy provide rails on the again of the case, successfully making each cable (besides these to your GPU and no matter’s cooling your processor) disappear. The MSI and Asus motherboards on show within the circumstances on the present flooring reveal 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 same old inner motherboard structure for circumstances. The motherboard is mounted to the left aspect of the case’s body, not the best, and the best aspect 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 an alternative of the underside, which could make warmth administration loads simpler— you possibly can exhaust these followers proper out of the highest of the enclosure. Neat.

Both circumstances are full retail designs, not ideas, so they need to be hitting the market later this 12 months. For extra updates on the most recent PC {hardware} tendencies, make sure you subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube.