First unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show, the RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X PZ has now been officially announced by MSI. As a reminder, this is a card that manages to hide its power connector. How? By moving it under the card’s backplate. Result: 0 visible cables during assembly!
RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X PZ: MSI makes the card official!
This graphics card is a reference derived from the Ventus series. The design and heatsink are very similar to the original card. However, there’s a slight change of color, with the board turning white with silver accents here and there. In addition, the design of the backplate has evolved, a little, since it serves to hide the card’s power cable.
With this model, we know how MSI does it: the brand moves its connector to the rear of the PCB. The fins of the heatsink are shaped to allow the 12V-2×6 cable used to power the graphics card to pass through. To facilitate connection, the rear part of the back plate is magnetized. It’s a system equivalent to Sapphire’s RX 9070 XT Nitro+ or Gigabyte’s Stealth Ice version of the RTX 5090!
In fact, it’s the simplest method, since, unlike ASUS, it avoids having to develop a specific connector or design dedicated motherboards. You could say that MSI could opt for the ASUS system, but it’s not certain that the brand would accept. Here we have a universal and easy to implement method, while still being accessible to most.
For the moment, we don’t yet know the price of the card. Let’s hope the PZ system doesn’t push up the price!
