Just bought a motherboard from Intel - D955XCS. The formfactor is BTX and I cant seem to find any cool(aluminum with a window or transparent) case for it. Would appreciate if someone could help me out here.
Cool BTX cases are hard to find!
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This is atx but it is also btx if you buy the extra part at xoxide.com it like 30 buck i think
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133154
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133154
BTX is a currently "out-of-favor" concept. Who knows, it might catch on some day. Vive la difference.!. 
.bh.
.bh.
And welcome to the AT Forums - sorry I missed it on the first go-round.
. The Aerocool Masstige is supposed to hold just about any mobo. In fact, most of the Aerocools claim to be "bi". IDK how they accomplish the BTX-change - I suppose you'll have to check the Aerocool site. I'm guessing you'll have to buy an interchangeable back panel to go BTX. If you care to spend over $100. there are some more from: Asys, CoolerMaster (Stacker), Thermaltake (Armor, Kandalf, Tai-Chi). And I think there is at least one Lian Li that can do the BTX-thing. Good luck.
.bh.
. The Aerocool Masstige is supposed to hold just about any mobo. In fact, most of the Aerocools claim to be "bi". IDK how they accomplish the BTX-change - I suppose you'll have to check the Aerocool site. I'm guessing you'll have to buy an interchangeable back panel to go BTX. If you care to spend over $100. there are some more from: Asys, CoolerMaster (Stacker), Thermaltake (Armor, Kandalf, Tai-Chi). And I think there is at least one Lian Li that can do the BTX-thing. Good luck.
.bh.
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BTX would've "caught on" by now if it were ever to catch on.
But look who hyped and pushed BTX? INTEL!!
Except for overtime-shift schedules to meet world-wide demand for their run-of-the-mill processors, who or what would recommend Intel for anything extraordinary this year?
They fell on their face with the Smithfield in THG's marathon hardware playoff with AMD.
Their motherboards are designed to keep you from exploiting the safe limits of their mid-range CPU's so they can sell their top-flight offerings for top prices. Their processors are designed with the same thing in mind.
They were under investigation by FTC during 1999 for "price-discrimination" practices through minor disabling of their Pentium-2 333 Mhz processor from the same production runs as all the other P-2's, so they could market the 333 for a higher price and the 300 or 266 for a lower price. To the uninitiated, this means that they capture more profit from product sales than if they simply produced the 333 and sold it to everyone for the same price.
If they haven't turned around in six more months, get out the shovel, call the coroner. INtel may be as big as Big-Blue, but their spirit is day-ud. It's day-ud.
But look who hyped and pushed BTX? INTEL!!
Except for overtime-shift schedules to meet world-wide demand for their run-of-the-mill processors, who or what would recommend Intel for anything extraordinary this year?
They fell on their face with the Smithfield in THG's marathon hardware playoff with AMD.
Their motherboards are designed to keep you from exploiting the safe limits of their mid-range CPU's so they can sell their top-flight offerings for top prices. Their processors are designed with the same thing in mind.
They were under investigation by FTC during 1999 for "price-discrimination" practices through minor disabling of their Pentium-2 333 Mhz processor from the same production runs as all the other P-2's, so they could market the 333 for a higher price and the 300 or 266 for a lower price. To the uninitiated, this means that they capture more profit from product sales than if they simply produced the 333 and sold it to everyone for the same price.
If they haven't turned around in six more months, get out the shovel, call the coroner. INtel may be as big as Big-Blue, but their spirit is day-ud. It's day-ud.
sundial micro has some pretty decent btx cases.
i have the chenbro one and the microBTX coolermaster. i'll probably have to get an AMD btx board if one ever gets made. there is supposed to be an MSI microbtx nvidia geforce 6100 board that was designed.... btx + amd would be basically the best thing ever.
bonzai duck bringing up a 6 year old case, that was ridiculous in itself um i'm not even sure how relevant that is to btx.
I actually am an AMD stockholder, but AMD doesn't do everything better than intel, its not a totally one sided battle. btx can really make for a much quieter system... check out the systems at hardocp's reviews, that have btx and a geforce 6800ultra passively cooled .
i have the chenbro one and the microBTX coolermaster. i'll probably have to get an AMD btx board if one ever gets made. there is supposed to be an MSI microbtx nvidia geforce 6100 board that was designed.... btx + amd would be basically the best thing ever.
bonzai duck bringing up a 6 year old case, that was ridiculous in itself um i'm not even sure how relevant that is to btx.
I actually am an AMD stockholder, but AMD doesn't do everything better than intel, its not a totally one sided battle. btx can really make for a much quieter system... check out the systems at hardocp's reviews, that have btx and a geforce 6800ultra passively cooled .
Aerocool changed the name?
The Masstige was Baydream a few weeks ago.
Edit: Never mind, I suppose it depends on where you live.
The Masstige was Baydream a few weeks ago.
Edit: Never mind, I suppose it depends on where you live.
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