If you’ve got constructed a PC earlier than, you then already know the way tiring and troublesome good cable administration might be. (If you have not, rely your self fortunate.)
Having nice cable administration might be extraordinarily essential, not just for the look of the PC, but in addition for maintaining all the things at a protected temperature. Having a bunch of cables in the way in which of your PC’s airflow might be disastrous, which is why cable administration has turn into one thing of an artwork for PC builders. Now, although, ASUS is about to combine issues up with a brand new sequence of parts designed to make cable administration even simpler.
What if, as a substitute of getting to make use of cable ties and intricately weaving your cables by your PC, you possibly can simply cover them altogether? That’s the concept behind ASUS’s new BTF parts. BTF, which stands for Back-to-the-Future (the corporate says the pun is “very much intended”), contains motherboards designed with cables that plug into the again.
ASUS says that is simpler to handle when in comparison with present motherboards, which require you to weave cables by the case and round to the entrance to attach. Furthermore, the shortage of connections to the entrance of the board means much less cables in the way in which, which suggests smoother appears and higher airflow to your PC.
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The ecosystem of BTF and Advanced BTF parts contains extra than simply motherboards. The firm additionally debuted a brand new TUF Gaming GT302 ARGB case, which comes with 4 140mm ARGB followers, and is already set as much as take ASUS’s new BTF motherboards.
Some of those motherboards are additionally outfitted with particular connectors that mean you can plug your BTF graphics card (sure, they’ve these, too) immediately into the board. If you employ a non BTF-ready card, you will nonetheless must plug it within the quaint method, which might be one thing that ASUS hopes to make use of to assist push these new playing cards. There is, after all, another advantages to the BFT playing cards, as you will not have to fret a lot concerning the horizontal house in your case being large enough to your card to suit into it with out urgent the cables in opposition to the aspect of the case.
So far it appears like ASUS will solely provide BTF variations of the Nvidia RTX 4090 and RTX 4070 Ti Super, although that might change down the road. That’s simply what the corporate has introduced at this cut-off date. ASUS additionally says that it has partnered with be quiet!, Aerocool, Cooler Master, Corsair, Inwin, Lian Li, Phanteks, Silverstone, and Thermaltake to ship BTF-ready chassis down the road, too.
At this level, no pricing has been revealed for these new parts. But, in the event you love constructing PCs and care about having the cleanest, most streamlined construct, these choices could be one thing to have in mind with future builds.
