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A Compaq with a standard motherboard?!?

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reitz

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I was in Best Buy today, and I noticed an open-box Compaq Presario Duron 750 sitting on the shelf. Being the curious person that I am, I spun it around for a look at the back. To my amazement, it appeared to be a standard ATX case with a standard ATX motherboard. It even had the interchangeable plate like is found on the back of any ATX case.

Unfortunately, Best Buy would not have been happy if I had opened the case up, so I couldn't go in for a closer inspection. It did look as if Compaq has decided to create at least one model with standard components, though. When did that start? Every Compaq I've ever had the misfortune to work on has been a nightmare, causing me to shake my head in amazement at the placement of the components inside the case. Has anyone else seen one of these, or am I on crack?
 
Gunbuster: most of the puters that best buy carries are atx but that doesn't mean its standard atx. most are integrated with riser things and all kinds of weird things.

anyway, reitz, compaq has used standard ATX mobo for a while now. at work i support lots of compaq p500s and they are all running on stadard ATX boards that will work in any other case. but these are their most expensive models and its a different story when it comes to thei celeron systems. now how they work is a different story.
 
Nope, I can not think of even one current model that uses "a riser things and all kinds of weird things"

Some are Micro ATX but that is still standard.

People around here get all worked up about how proprietary these models are but they all follow the main standards.

Not to say the big retail OEMs don't cut costs and skimp every step of the way, but they have to hit a price point and fabbing random risers for one off models does not make a ton of sense.

(I think Compaq finally learned from the ez2200 AKA "blue slug" that wacky cases and mainboards was a bad idea)
 
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