ASUS last year presented DIY-APE Revolution motherboards, the main feature of which is that many of their connectors are moved to the back side. It appears that ASUS has made its standard open to other manufacturers, as MSI and Maxsun have released DIY-APE motherboards.
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Unboxing a DIY-APE motherboard called Maxsun H610 King demonstrated one of the Chinese bloggers. The mentioned board is made in an unusual form factor, which the manufacturer calls YTX. Visually, its dimensions correspond to half the size of a standard ATX board. In fact, the H610 King has dimensions of 245 × 175 mm, so it is closest to the Mini-DTX form factor (203 × 170 mm).
The H610 King is powered by the H610 chipset, supporting 13th and 12th generation Intel Core processors with a maximum TDP of 130W. At the same time, almost all connectors, including a 24-pin power connector, an 8-pin EPS connector, SATA ports and other interfaces, are located on the back of the board. On the front side, you can see a connector for connecting a cooling system, slots for DDR4 RAM, a PCIe slot, etc.
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On another YouTube channel video appeared unboxing MSI B650M APE Wi-Fi motherboard that supports AMD Ryzen 7000 processors. MSI’s DIY-APE motherboard looks a little strange, as the company has its own Project Zero project, which is developing such solutions. It is noted that there is no MSI logo on the product. Unlike the Maxsun motherboard, the new one from MSI belongs to the microATX form factor. It houses four DDR5 RAM slots, PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 3.0 slots, etc. As you might expect, many connectors on the B650M APE Wi-Fi are located on the back side.
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