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Levelplay shows off magnetically attached fans that are reversible, connect via pogo pins and USB-C – plus an AIO…

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(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) So many PC cooling companies copy each other’s designs and features – I must have seen a dozen AIOs at Computex with curved screens and / or unified fans. But at Levelplay’s event last week, I was struck by a couple of concepts the company is working on. First was the MagBracket fan design, where the RGB lights are housed in a mounting plate, which connects via a USB-C cable that unifies PWM and RGB connections. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) This allows the fans themselves to connect magnetically to the plate, and electrically via pogo pins. Drop them on the powered plate, and the fan lights up as it begins to spin. That would make cleaning your case fans exceptionally easy, and it also means the spinners are reversible, with connectors on both sides. So you can pop a fan off, flip it over, and put it back on to go from intake to exhaust. That also means you can install the brackets on their own, and pop the fans on after your system is more or less built.…

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