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Computex 2005 Early Bird Coverage

Posted by Zonk on from the gets-the-worm dept.

zbojnik83 writes " Today was the official start of this year's Computex, but as always we were able to get a sneak peak at the show before the floor actually opened. With the show a day barely underway, we've already seen the first AMD BTX motherboard, a number of NVIDIA G70 graphics cards, an Intel motherboard that can be switched to an Socket-939 board by just purchasing a single card and the details of ATI's new multi-GPU chipset."

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  1. Re:Not enough by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've read all the docs and specification PDFs that were released when BTX was announced. I still contend that the BTX form factor is unnecessary.

    For one, it was designed such to accomodate Intel's excessively power wasteful chips that aren't proving to be worth the power they waste.

    For another, most of the changes to accomodate these wasteful chips could have been done as simple tweaks of ATX, call it ATX 3.0. Without having to contend with nearly so much of a change, ATX 3.0 cases could still have housed ATX 2.0 boards. ATX 2.0 case designs would have only needed a few changes to work. Granted, ATX 3 boards might not work so well in ATX 2 cases because the older cases wouldn't have the necessary mount points to take the stress of the extra heatsink weight.

    PicoBTX is nice but given the acceptance of the small form factor ATX systems, I don't see how picoBTX is different enough to be more accepted.