First Peek: Asus Demos a TUF Gaming Concept PC That Hides All the Cables

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PCs are ever evolving, but when it comes to building one, some bits haven't changed in decades. Parts change over time, and so might their placement, but in the end, you still end up wiring everything together. At that always leaves some cables hanging out and obstructing the view of your expensive new hardware, no matter how much care you take.

Asus has taken aim at this problem in a revolutionary concept PC that largely (though not entirely!) works around this issue and leaves you with a cleaner-looking gaming PC. It's dubbed the "Hidden Connector Concept Build," shown at Computex 2023, and we got a first look.

That said, though it's only a concept and not a commercially viable product at the moment, it raises some new questions while solving some age-old problems.

The stagnation in fundamental PC-building precepts, in many ways, has helped to make building a PC less daunting, as there's a vast array of long-standing information out there. Plus, if you’ve ever built a PC before, you more or less know how to do it now. But in some key areas, the process could be improved to make building a system easier and to create a cleaner-looking finished build.

Certain things aren’t so easy to change, notably all the wiring that connects the parts together. Asus has been thinking over ways to take building a PC to the next level for some time now. It introduced what it called Project Avalon(Opens in a new window) back in 2016, a unique concept system that attempted to make changing components easier than ever.

That idea never quite came to fruition, but now Asus is showing off a different, far less ambitious, yet vaguely similar system concept. We don’t get a cool code-name for this one, alas. Whereas the original Project Avalon