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More on BTX Motherboards

Posted by michael on from the running-hot dept.

venger writes "Anandtech has an article on the new standard of cases and motherboards that is soon to be released. Looks like they are trying to cater for the increase in heat devices are now producing while keeping the noise levels down!" We mentioned BTX earlier.

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  1. Since dust can be a problem by zymano · · Score: 5, Interesting

    why not a air filtration system ?

  2. Nice but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Will these cases/board/supplies work with 64 bit CPUs or are those another ball of wax? Apple's got their 64 bit desktop machines for sale already, any i386 ones I've seen are rack mounted or sold as "big ass servers" meaning "you canna build yer own cheap, laddy"

  3. Maybe someone knows by Apreche · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The big change that I see with this new BTX spec is video cards will be PCI Express and not AGP. I think I can safely assume that PCI Express has a bandwith that is much faster than that of AGP can ever have, which is why it would be desireable. But isn't the point of AGP that it allows you to set an arperture and use some of the system RAM as an extension of the memory on the graphics card? So unless every PCI Express Video card has like 256MB plus video ram on it, wont AGP still be better? I really know nothing about this PCI Express thing except that expansion cards go in it, and it's fast.

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  4. I'm gonna have a hard time programming my AVRs... by mofochickamo · · Score: 4, Interesting
    without a serial port. I use ATMEL's STK500, which uses the serial port to program the microcontrollers.

    From article: The move to BTX will also bring us closer to a fully legacy-free PC, with PS/2, serial and parallel ports already beginning to disappear from prototype motherboards.

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  5. Re:why? by sweetooth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This has less to do with processor speed and computing capabilities than it does with size and noise. There are a great many people buying smaller cases like the shuttle xpc because computers do everything they want and footprint, noise, and style are the things lacking now.

    Gamers won't care much about BTX unless there is a killer video card that will only be released in PCI Express form factor. At least initially.

  6. Re:I see a pattern developing !! by bhtooefr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ATX.com - ATX Communications (no relation to Intel's ATX)
    BTX.com - BTX Technologies (A/V equipment)
    CTX.com - CTX Corporation (down, but I think they're a monitor company)
    DTX.com - DTx (an embedded computer manufacturer)
    ETX.com - ETX (down)
    FTX.com - Drug portal
    GTX.com - GTX Corporation (CAD software)
    HTX.com - Marksmen (down)
    ITX.com - ITX Design (web design/hosting)
    JTX.com - Farrier Marine (boat manufacturer - second server for downloads)

    There's the first ten from A, so you'll need to be quick if you want one...