As someone who believes in the ideal of the trim, tidy PC interior, I do applaud the intent behind MSI’s Project Zero X. Currently on show at CES 2025, it’s a prototype desktop build that uses clever geometry and an unconventional motherboard I/O layout to hide practically every single wire in the joint, for a clean design that's housed for your viewing pleasure within a four-sided glass chamber.
It’s the closest PCs have come to the simple Victorian pleasures of a nice terrarium, and honestly, good on it. The problem is that if Project Zero X’s components ever actually go on sale, there becomes a non-zero percent chance that I will come into possession of that see-through case.
And there is a one hundred percent chance I will ruin it. I can’t remember if I’ve ever confessed this before, but I absolutely fucking suck at cable management.
Just, abysmal. I can’t get them straight. I can’t get them bending where I want them. I can’t figure out what to do with the slack except stuff it under the PSU shroud like a bundle of old Christmas lights that just barely fit back in their box.
I almost considered begging Liam (RPS in peace) not to shoot that video of me bumbling through the process because I knew it would out me as some kind of hardware fraud, a Frank Abagnale with zipties.