Today we can find very powerful hardware on the market, but we must also admit that some manufacturers’ solutions are… boring. Only by paying the ITX premium, as we explored in our article about building a mini PC with $2000 in 2024, or by exploring more exotic designs, can we break that monotony, and that’s how we arrive at the Maxsun Terminator H770 YTX D5 Wi-Fi, a motherboard with a very different format. On one hand, Maxsun proposes the idea of YTX, which takes advantage of the horizontal space of cases, and on the other hand, its main connectors face backward, a detail that is slowly gaining ground.
The strategy of taking an office computer and adding certain upgrades to turn it into a gamer machine has served us well, but many users don’t hesitate to mods to change the standard case and optimize its appearance. There’s nothing wrong with achieving better aesthetics, and RGB is barely an element in a very complex equation. Fortunately, some manufacturers have understood that there’s life beyond rainbow lights, and one of them is Maxsun, which presented its Terminator H770 YTX D5 Wi-Fi.
Maxsun Terminator H770 YTX D5 Wi-Fi: New Format and Rear Connectors
The trained eye won’t take long to notice that this is a different motherboard. First, Maxsun calls the format YTX, with a surface of 245 x 175 millimeters. This means it’s almost ITX on its vertical line (it exceeds the official specification by five millimeters), but on the horizontal line it’s virtually identical to microATX (the difference is one millimeter). The extra space allowed Maxsun to place two NVMe slots that could look great with a touch of RGB... but at the same time it wasted the opportunity to use four memory slots instead of two (even though DDR5 modules don’t have density problems).
And second, the main connectors were installed on the back of the board. This is a trend that manufacturers have explored with interest in recent months, and its potential to minimize cable management headaches is incredible. The real challenge is finding a compatible case, as very few designs have the necessary openings... but there will never be a lack of a Dremel enthusiast willing to accept it.
Finally, the review of the Maxsun Terminator H770 YTX D5 Wi-Fi published by Tom’s Hardware talks about a basic UEFI and a fairly conservative power configuration (which we can correct with a couple of adjustments), but it’s not terrible, and its price of $139 definitely makes noise.
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