BTF, or Back-To-the-Future, graphics cards are special in that they contain an additional connector to the side of the PCIe slot, through which the graphics card is powered. Thus removing the need for ...

We declared the War on Cables the hottest PC trend of 2023 after Computex last summer and at CES 2024, the concept got real. Asus was busy showing off its vision for desktop PC without visible ...

The “War on Cables” trend rages on and Asus is on the front lines. In 2023 and 2024, Asus eagerly embraced the trend with “BTF” motherboards and cases designed to stealthily hide cables around the ...

Cable hiding for desktop PC builders has taken another twist with a new approach to graphics-card power delivery. I took a look inside Asus' newest version of its Back to the Future initiative. I have ...

ASUS has just announced its new BTF ecosystem of gaming motherboards, graphics cards, and PC cases into its ROG and TUF Gaming family of products. ASUS has said that even before the rise of windowed ...

Something to look forward to: Asus has spent years working to eliminate GPU power cables, and its evolving BTF standard represents a major step forward. The BTF standard shifts power delivery to a new ...

The new ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero BTF motherboard features some cutting-edge features, with a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot ready for the graphics cards of not just today but tomorrow. ASUS is ready for a ...

Why it matters: Asus and other companies have spent years exploring ways to remove cables from the custom PC building process. The manufacturer's BTF standard aims to make installing graphics cards ...

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Ahead of CES 2026, Sapphire is showing off a pair of "PhantomLink" (its equivalent to ASUS' BTF) AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs and motherboards. Both will come in white or black colorways and are (for ...