AMD Ships First DTX Form Factor Prototypes

MojoKid writes "When AMD first revealed their plans for the DTX open industry standard, the intent of that early briefing was to explain AMD's vision for interoperable small form factor systems. Today AMD provided more details and a specific design example of the DTX small form-factor standard. This HotHardware article showcases a prototype system built on a low power AMD Athlon 64 BE-2350 processor and 690G chipset motherboard with integrated graphics. Maybe the HTPC just took a small step toward platform standardization?"

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Re:Chassis design and internal layout found here;

[backbyter]

Remove the

?page=3/

and the parent link will work

Re:Platform standardization? - Not likely.

[carlcory]

Without looking at the spec, I'd guess that you have a case of AMD exploiting the peculiarities of their architecture and trying to push "a new standard".

Probably payback for BTX, which Intel designed requiring memory to be too far away from CPU for AMD's (on board IOMMU) requirements.

BTX

[Z34107]

BTX wasn't a total failure. A lot of the BTX improvements - like what direction air flows through your case - were silently integrated into existing "ATX" machines.