BTX Form Factors

[piasabird]

This new BTX form factor in the article on the front page looks like junk to me. It is designed for the same type of hulking oversized cases. I thought with PCI Express the motherboards were suppose to get smaller?????

More Junk produced under pressure from OEM Designers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dexvx]

I suppose you missed the micro and pico parts.

 

[Mark R]

The main design concept behind BTX is the idea that CPUs will be pumping out well over 100 W of heat, and that graphics cards will be close behind.

There is a huge amount of space allocated in the BTX design for the CPU heatsink, and that is why BTX is bigger. There are micro and small-form factor variants of BTX which make a number of compromises to get the size down.