GIGABYTE Stealth 500 PC Continues to Grab Eyeballs at CES

[btarunr]

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!



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[Chaitanya]

Massive improvement over original case, also seems like they must have sold decent numbers of 1st Stealth kits to necessitate a follow up(with good upgrades).

 

[Space Lynx]

This is insane, I keep zooming in trying to find how the gpu is plugged in and I can't see it. Impressive lol

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.

 

[dj-electric]

"huh, that's just a motherboard and an unconnected GPU on it"
"wait.... what?"

 

[Space Lynx]

"huh, that's just a motherboard and an unconnected GPU on it"
"wait.... what?"

Exactly.

 

[Dristun]

Wow, that's cool. Now they just need to hide those fan cables

 

[bonehead123]

Wow, that's cool. Now they just need to hide those fan cables

Agreed, and the could have easily done that, at least for the rear fan, by routing them lower & out thru the fan grill slots (perhaps with a very small cutout) & back in underneath the mobo to the power connector....

 

[ZoneDymo]

not to be a buzzkill but sure, put the videocard connectors on the "back" of the card and it looks cleaner....but its easy to make a pc look clean with basically nothing in it, add your cpu and cpu cooler and ram etc and that clean look you have now quickly turns into something a lot more generic.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I have long wondered why they haven't put the power plugs on the back side of the motherboard.

Edit: And while we're at it, let's put the fan headers back there as well.

 

[N/A]

It's just for show. Not really happening anytime soon in any meaningful volume. No executive can really take the risk to produce in mass not just the case, some pc parts as well. Besides needs more work.

 

[phanbuey]

I can only imagine what the back panel looks like.

 

[Frick]

Wow, a black box with a glass side. I don't know what to do with all this excitement.

 

[Veseleil]

When you say stealth, my mind pictures this:

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.

 

[mouacyk]

Still waiting for that cable-less case.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Am I the only one here who thinks that, despite ones best efforts at cable management, you're never going to hide 100% of cables? Unless of course you simply don't plug stuff in, lol. Some cables/tubes are just going to be there.

 

[Dave65]

Massive improvement over original case, also seems like they must have sold decent numbers of 1st Stealth kits to necessitate a follow up(with good upgrades).

Looks quite nice, actually looks like it has air flow.

 

[tabascosauz]

Am I the only one here who thinks that, despite ones best efforts at cable management, you're never going to hide 100% of cables? Unless of course you simply don't plug stuff in, lol. Some cables/tubes are just going to be there.

I have been trying to get rid of SATA drives for years for this very reason (unsuccessfully, because I just can't part with my rock, the Blue 3D).

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

 

[kilo]

Very impressive design.

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.

 

[Mac the Geek]

... SATA power and SATA data cables quickly become the bane of your existence.

Thank you for reminding me that I am An Old. I don't think that anyone my age, who actually built rigs with molex power and Ultra ATA ribbon cables, will ever look at SATA cables with disdain.

 

[Kohl Baas]

Am I the only one here who thinks that, despite ones best efforts at cable management, you're never going to hide 100% of cables? Unless of course you simply don't plug stuff in, lol. Some cables/tubes are just going to be there.

Well, not without throwing ATX out the window and create a new form factor which allows to put all connectors to the backside of the motherboard, but since the ATX itself was not designed by morons, you can gett pretty close with 90 deg connectors and appropiate hiding plates.

This is insane, I keep zooming in trying to find how the gpu is plugged in and I can't see it. Impressive lol

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.

Well, looking at the second picture you will see a cutout on the case right under the GPU. They just put the PCIe connector on the undeside of the PCB. Not a big deal technically but surely devastates compatibility with other cases...

On the same pictrure in the small joint gap between the motherboars and the case you'll see the motherboards power cables too.

 

[wEeViLz]

I actually enjoy the wire management part of the build, I think a build looks better with the wires...

 

[eidairaman1]

YABC- yet another boring case

 

[TechLurker]

This reminds me of ASUS' Utopia Concept which debuted in Computex 2019; where everything on the mobo front are either integrated, or modular but have low cooling requirements (NVMe and RAM), and the CPU and GPU are installed behind, allowing for direct and discrete connection to a PSU. And that the whole board has integrated liquid cooling to remove the need for a traditional tower and additional case fans.

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[Athlonite]

Well isn't amazing how uncluttered a Case with a GPU looks especially when there's no PSU or power cables plugged into anything Ooooo maybe they used an exploder PSU that went Gigabang so hard it vapourized itself and all the cable

 

[Space Lynx]

YABC- yet another boring case

the case itself is actually quite fugly imo.