Do you remember the PC configurations that manage to hide all the power cables? Systems that have a series of hidden connectors on the back of the motherboard to allow the computer to be much cleaner have just received a new update. And the company DIY-APEdedicated to creating this type of designs that large brands such as ASUS have later adopted, has managed to develop a new standard, the BTF 3.0which will offer the ability to remove all cables of feeding between the source, motherboard and graphics card.
Until now, all the configurations that we had known that were presented as “wireless” really what they did was hide all the cables of feeding in the back of the platesince the power supply still needed to have them to be able to provide the necessary power to the motherboard. But all this can change with the third version of this standard, since unlike the previous ones, this one does manage to completely eliminate all the power cables between the three main components that make them up, that is, there will be no no cable connecting the power supply to the motherboard or graphics card, obviously.
A system that eliminates power cables once and for all
Managing all the cables that a computer has can be somewhat tedious, this is one of the reasons why some of the large companies dedicated to hardware manufacturing have tried to implement a new type of standard that seeks to eliminate them. Although the biggest problem that some of the projects such as ASUS BTF o MSI ZERO was that despite presenting itself as a configuration that did not need cables, what they really did was mount the power connectors on the back of the board so that they could not be seen.
This in turn made it necessary to have a specific box that would allow all these cables to be hidden just behind the board, making some configurations appear much larger than they really were. But this is now a thing of the past, since DIY-APE has successfully developed a new version that this time manages to completely eliminate cables by allowing the power supply to be connected directly to the board, in a way similar to that used by the power connector of the graphics developed with this standard.
congratulations to diyape!
btf3.0 is finalized, no cables between psu and mobo and gpu.
it needs whole new types of psu and mobo and case that comply with btf3.0.
all connectors on mobos are at the back of the pcb.12vo mobo confirmed, with a new header that has 50pin to replace the… https://t.co/XAzxjFUyik https://t.co/Hp0iM0hNQN https://t.co/ZhWRzaatBs
January 2, 2025 • 12:54
In this case, the new motherboard BTF 3.0 incorporates a 50-pin header that is capable of offering up to 1,500Wreplacing the traditional or dual 8-pin EPS connectors for the CPU and the 24-pin connector used for powering the motherboard itself. Obviously the power supply also incorporates a connector of this type that replaces the power cables, but thanks to this configuration together with the implementation of the M.2 storage connectors, it is possible to build a computer that only needs to incorporate the power cables of the fans.
