HEXUS.beans :: Intel shuffles BTX in to its deep dark closet

[ps3ud0]

Very short-sighted of Intel.

Just because their current chips are more efficient they ditch the platform? BTX had a lot going for it, with better thermal performance for all parts of the system. I suspect this decision will come back to bite them (and us all) in a few years.

And there was me who prepared for BTX with a Coolermaster Stacker - BTX has alot going for it once people forget Intel are behind it (just like they were for ATX all those years ago).

Hopefully they keep redefining the spec in the meantime to suit them, AMD and other chipset manus...

Looking at the 2 pictures to me the CPU, NB and RAM are in the same ballpark area, unsure how strict the white papers are for their exact locations...

ps3ud0

[coco]

the only reason intel proposed the btx format was because at the time their cpu's were begining to turn atx cases into toasters...

[dave87]

How is that possible? the PCI slots are at the wrong side of the ports, i don't see how it would fit an ATX case at all.

yup, you are right, I was under the impression that the btx layout was infact an atx board mounted upside down which was utterly wrong. oops....

(longstanding amd user - only used intel in laptops)

[Jonny M]

Dell's AMD systems use BTX boards.