News MSI shows off cable-free panoramic PC at CES 2025 — Project Zero X uses radical orientation for GPU and motherboard

No ATX form factor?

Bad idea. Very bad idea. Next thing you know you're going to see every manufacturer having their own motherboard type, every case manufacturer will only cater to the big manufacturers, and then the build your own PC will finally be destroyed.

This is a move in the opposite direction. Terrible for the customer.
 
And they could eliminate the PCIe riser cable by adding a PCIe slot to the side of the board
That's actually something I have been thinking would be cool. Not the orientation MSI has it here. But if the PCIe x16 slot was on the bottom edge of a mITX, then the GPU could connect edge-to-edge with the motherboard and give a larger full sized system with the CPU and GPU on the same plane. Would allow larger and taller tower style heat sinks on GPUs.
 
No ATX form factor?

Bad idea. Very bad idea. Next thing you know you're going to see every manufacturer having their own motherboard type, every case manufacturer will only cater to the big manufacturers, and then the build your own PC will finally be destroyed.

This is a move in the opposite direction. Terrible for the customer.
This isn't that different from the new ATX BTF connectors that have been popping up recently. MSI did it, then Asus and other followed. This is just a prototype to see whether this is something that customers want, and if it is then manufacturers will adapt it.

It' pretty cool, but I don't think the bottom case fans will be enough airflow for when the GPU really gets going.