BTX Boards?

[deathman20]

Ok I've been hearing more and more about these boards and that they are slowly coming out to the market. I was wondering besides the new positioning of components on the board for cooling whats the deal with the boards? Would you upgrade to one once they hit the shelves?

I plan on upgrading my PC sometime next year or might wait til Intel gets there head out of there butts and get the heating issue under control and have 64-bit enabled CPU's.

[batboy]

The mobos are rearranged for cooling purposes and require a new BTX case. Doesn't look like they will be readily available until next year. There is probably no reason to buy them at this point in time.

[Voltron]

They use a different pin power supply to dont they?

I wouldn't upgrade just to upgrade but later down the road when Btx has been out for awhile and Im looking for a new MB and Case and.. so on. I might pick one up. The cooling and device arrangement is pretty different but if it cools better, Im all for it.

[deathman20]

Yes it uses a new power supply connector (24 pin over a 20 pin).

I know I read something on case layout and such with the motherboards but I can't find them anymore. It does look like it cools better and has a better case layout to allow better airflow to the critical components. Either way it sounds very intresting to me, then again I don't plan on upgrading for a year or 2 right now (of course that changes every time I look at the boards).

[Edward78]

Wow, talk about posting on a old topic, but I just found out about BTX boards & they are not on sale anyware yet. Did something happen with them or is it just taking abit longer?

[thideras]

They died out pretty quickly. Some OEM companies use it like Gateway, Dell, (etc), but none for us.

[Edward78]

They died out pretty quickly. Some OEM companies use it like Gateway, Dell, (etc), but none for us.

Well that sucks, they looked like a great way to build small PCs with real power.