Just Curious why don't we have main stream btx motherboards?

[rimmi2002]

Hi I was looking to make a new build and seems like major companies like Apple and Dell have switched to Btx. It was designed for better airflow and lower cpu and gpu temperature. I was just wondering why have we not seen any main stream mobos that in the btx format?

 

[StrangerGuy]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6685

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

First of all we were having a major fight just to get anyone to make BTX cases in the first place and then real killing blow to BTX came with the release of the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors with their dramatic drop in TDP. When you go from 120w to 65w TDP the chassis cooling didn’t need to be as robust of a cooling solution.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team