What is the form factor of your primary home desktop?

[cbn]

What is the form factor of your primary home desktop?

 

[whm1974]

My current rig, and every rig I built is a ATX. However in the future I'm of going MicroATX or even MiniITX.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Primary? ATX in a full tower. But then I have room for it.

 

[corkyg]

Mine is designed for an ATX mobo, however, the "form factor" is a full tower, and it is not a desktop, but a floortop.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Temjin TJ09S w/ATX

It's a fairly large ah heck, but I've always liked the case and waited a few years before finally
buying what was probably the only remaining one in the US.

 

[arandomguy]

ATX but that is only really due to selection and price as the industry is still predominantly focused on ATX in terms of cases, motherboards and sub component design offerings. I suspect the vast majority of ATX users are ATX users for that reason as well.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I guess all five of my rigs participating in the Dec. F@H race are all ATX mid-towers. Big video cards don't really fit all that well into anything less.

I do own some Brix mini-PCs, and an ASRock DeskMini, and another few ITX boxes too.

Thinking of maybe downsizing, and getting another ASRock DeskMini STX rig, and running a pair of those, to power my two 4K displays for desktop usage. I don't do much gaming.

 

[Muadib]

ATX for me. Only way I know for sure that the GPU will fit.

 

[UsandThem]

My builds have always been ATX, but I think I will go down to mATX for my next build in 3-5 years.

In the past I used all the extra connections that ATX gave (SLI video cards, sound card, modem, etc), but now my mid-tower looks empty when it's open since I went down to only adding in one video card.

 

[Joeydubbs]

ATX because its all about the GPU card, otherwise my box is fairly empty...

 

[Charlie98]

All 3 of my home PC's are mATX, to include the cases themselves. I only run 1 GPU and at most 3 drives. It's likely I'll move to mITX going forward.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

mITX. Because when you need a GPU and WAF, it's mITX or nothing.

Could have gone portable, but honestly, I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those 17" "gaming" laptops. Taaaacky.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

I've owned a few mATX gaming builds and find them to be compromised. Went ATX a couple years ago and have had better results.

Now that CPU's and GPU's are die shrinking and using less power it may be time to re-think my full size strategy. I will have to wait until current rig is obsolete. Could be a while......

 

[Oyeve]

Always ATX for me. My tower has 10 bays and 7 SSD drives, 3 optical drives. A bit overkill but I did have 2 290x reference cards in there at one point.

 

[Burpo]

Kind of embarrassing, but my old reliable daily work horse is a 2008 Gateway FX 8020 w/Xeon quad core. Been banging on it 24X7 since 2009 (never off) & thing refuses to die.. Has a D975XBG Intel 975x BTX Motherboard, with 700 watts PS. So yeah, it's *Something else.

 

[cbn]

Results so far:

1. ATX
   20 vote(s)
   71.4%
2. mATX
   3 vote(s)
   10.7%
3. Mini-ITX (or Mini-DTX)
   3 vote(s)
   10.7%
4. Mini-STX
   0 vote(s)
   0.0%
5. NUC size (eg, Gigabyte Brix)
   0 vote(s)
   0.0%
6. All-in-One Desktop
   0 vote(s)
   0.0%
7. Something else (please provide specifics with answer in thread)
   1 vote(s)
   3.6%
8. I don't use a desktop at home
   1 vote(s)
   3.6%

 

[whm1974]

Not surprised by the results. While I've always used ATX boards, I'm thinking of going MicroATX or even mITX for my next system.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Not surprised by the results. While I've always used ATX boards, I'm thinking of going MicroATX or even mITX for my next system.

ATX cases don't have to be all that large. Check the Coolermaster Elite 360/361.

 

[Torn Mind]

Micro ATX here.

 

[cbn]

ATX cases don't have to be all that large. Check the Coolermaster Elite 360/361.

That one is small @ 23.4L. (14.20" x 5.80" x 17.30" )

As a point of comparison Fractal Design Core 1000 (a mATX case) is 26.1L. (13.98" x 6.89" x 16.54")

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

ATX for video cards mainly. plus space for big quite fans.

the current daily driver also has 5 ssds, 2 hds and 1 optical. kinda hard to get that stuff in anything less..

 

[ELopes580]

Micro ATX here.

Same here.

 

[fastamdman]

Technically I use an ATX motherboard, but it's in a very large case. I run the corsair 900D. It looks something like this.

 

[bruceb]

Current desktop is a Dell Dimension 8200 P4 at 1.8Ghz ... so it is a tower with an ATX size motherboard ... When it eventually gets replaced, it will also be a tower type unit.

 

[deustroop]

Current desktop is a Dell Dimension 8200 P4 at 1.8Ghz ... so it is a tower with an ATX size motherboard ... When it eventually gets replaced, it will also be a tower type unit.

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