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GIGABYTE Stealth 500 PC Continues to Grab Eyeballs at CES
A showstopper from Computex 2022, the Stealth 500 DIY gaming PC kit from GIGABYTE continues to grab eyeballs at the 2023 International CES, where it's been awarded for innovation. Imagine you've assembled a gaming PC but forgot to install a single power cable from your modular PSU—that's what the Stealth 500 looks like. You won't find a single cable sticking out when you view the motherboard from the left side panel. Every connector and header of the motherboard has been discretely wired out either using 180° inflexible backplanes, or the motherboard itself has some of its headers located on the reverse side of the PCB. Even the RTX 3070 graphics card included with the build has a discretely located power connector that remains out of sight when installed. The challenge with this build will be to give it a highly capable air CPU cooler, as even cooling tubing from an AIO could spoil the look!
26 Comments on GIGABYTE Stealth 500 PC Continues to Grab Eyeballs at CES
I mean, I also don't really care to be honest. I never look at my PC tower, I look at my screen. As long as temps good I don't care really, meh
Still this is pretty neat I have to admit.
"wait.... what?"
Edit: And while we're at it, let's put the fan headers back there as well.
So try harder GB, I can still see a black box with missing components. And yes, I just made that gif, for those who might wonder. I'm on vacation.
Once you've built in any SFF case that doesn't have the luxury of a hidden cable compartment, cable management is suddenly no longer an afterthought and SATA power and SATA data cables quickly become the bane of your existence. No matter how much work you put into eveything else, SATA is there to ruin your day. Hence why most SFF builders forgo 2.5" and 3.5" entirely
This makes me ask; if power cables could just be included, pre-routed, within cases to begin with. You wouldn't have too short or too long cables from the PSU mfr, and 24 pin mobo, 8 pin CPU, could be the exact custom length (plus or minus 2-3 inches of slack) for the case. GPU power cables would be the only issue now that there's different standards.
On the same pictrure in the small joint gap between the motherboars and the case you'll see the motherboards power cables too.