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Intel will drop ATX next year

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This is so stupid, what's wrong with ATX anyways? Luckily a number of high end cases (like the CM Stacker 830) support ATX AND BTX so for people who have that case or others like it, its no big deal.
"From next year, everything Intel does will be BTX. This is going to really put the pliers on the rest of the industry to move over and keep in step"
Damn, that means i have to buy a BTX case. so stupid
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Originally Posted by -Jeppe-

what wrong with atx
btw what is the big difference between atx and btx

Balanced Technology eXtended (BTX) Form Factor - The Future of Cases & Motherboards http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876
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BTX has the CPU located at the bottom of the case and requires a totally different case (unless you have a case that can do both like I said above) but most cases that people have not can't support BTX.....like I said, bad move on Intel's part....
BTX cools better than ATX so thats why they want to use it.
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Originally Posted by J3r3my

BTX cools better than ATX so thats why they want to use it.

I can understand the importance of cooling better but with stock cooling and the lower power comsumption and therefore lesser heat production of some of the newer processors is there still such a need to move to BTX?

I agree that better cooling is always a good thing but to attempt to move an industry seems a tad bullish imo.

How many wanna bet that most case manu's will move to a dual-support?
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This doesn't mean that 3rd party board makers won't make ATX motherboards anymore, only Intel won't. So I'm sure ATX motherboards will continue to be available for quite awhile. At least I hope so, I just dropped $370 on a case and would hope it will at least last for one upgrade cycle.
if they want to cool better give us a big typhoon as stock cooler :
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Originally Posted by Remonster

BTX has the CPU located at the bottom of the case and requires a totally different case (unless you have a case that can do both like I said above) but most cases that people have not can't support BTX.....like I said, bad move on Intel's part....

Hi Remonster,

I agree 100%!!! I think Intel is going down the path of RAMBUS... Remember that mess?? They had to back off once DDR got going. They seemed shocked that they couldn't get the public to go along and buy that expensive and hot running memory. Not to mention AMD kicked their butts in the cpu game..

Intel will realize again, that they do not control the market place. "We" the consumers do...

Take care, :)
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If they do this, they sign their own death warrant for the high-end CPUs, especially for those like us that know what Intel is doing.
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Originally Posted by 455buick

Hi Remonster,

I agree 100%!!! I think Intel is going down the path of RAMBUS... Remember that mess?? They had to back off once DDR got going. They seemed shocked that they couldn't get the public to go along and buy that expensive and hot running memory. Not to mention AMD kicked their butts in the cpu game..

Intel will realize again, that they do not control the market place. "We" the consumers do...

Take care, :)

i have 384MB rambus on my old machine

lol

but tis very true
I dont see how it will cool better except for that cold air sinks, but in a case with the air being refreshed like every half minute.... not a big deal
does the power supply fans blow air onto it as well as the heatsink fan?
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even though im not a fan of intel, and their whole "conroe vs fx60" thing, they are pushing towards the server type designs with the micro and picobtx..i like this idea very much, small pc's and better cooling, you wont have to do anything but change your fan, case and other perephernials(SP?).. if you dont like the small pc idea you can always get the normal BTX with the same case design, just different mobo placement for more effecient cooling, this is a very true document, the current mobo posture we are using wasnt designed for such high temperatures on select dies that we are getting at this moment...i mean some cpu's are made to push upto 70c!. Theres nothing wrong with this idea, imo i like it very much.
hey Manco, what is that 6600le doint with a 955EE and 4gb? you should get a high end card and give that to me
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Originally Posted by sladesurfer

Balanced Technology eXtended (BTX) Form Factor - The Future of Cases & Motherboards http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876

And the MicroBTX board has larger dimensions than the BTX board--wierd....
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Originally Posted by CyberDruid

And the MicroBTX board has larger dimensions than the BTX board--wierd....


well the micro is made to be put "sideways" in normal computer terms, or the server type design where many can be stacked, while the normal "BTX" is still a PC box design carried out today..so the dimensions are quiet different.
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Has anyone ever heard a BTX comp? Theyre dead silent even under full load.
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hey Manco, what is that 6600le doint with a 955EE and 4gb? you should get a high end card and give that to me

I'm not a gamer so this 6600LE is perfect for my needs. It's fanless which I like and can drive two monitors which I also use. So I kinda like it although it probably makes gamers cringe
I wonder if I got a 2nd one and run it with SLI if it would actually be decent?
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