What is the future of MicroATX? Will it support Nehalem?

[tracerit]

I bought an Antec P180 Mini a few weeks back when newegg had them for $80. I wanted to hold off on a new case until next summer when Nehalem comes out and do a full upgrade. I'd hate to keep the case only to find out that Nehalem-based system won't fit in the case a year from now.

 

[RallyMaster]

Somehow I doubt mATX/ATX specification is going away soon. They've tried BTX but unfortunately that doesn't really exist much nowadays....

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
Somehow I doubt mATX/ATX specification is going away soon. They've tried BTX but unfortunately that doesn't really exist much nowadays....

BTX was introduced to fix the toasty prescott problems, not really an issue anymore ever since C2D. I think some Dell's still use BTX.

mATX will not go away as it is a huge seller in prebuilt machine systems and lower end system builds (cheaper lower featured motherboards, or boards with onboard video).

I wouldn't expect instant adoption of Nehalem on mATX due to the fact Nehalem will be mostly enthusiast for at least a small while until it becomes mainstream. Once it becomes mainstream I would expect to easily see mATX boards.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
I wouldn't expect instant adoption of Nehalem on mATX due to the fact Nehalem will be mostly enthusiast for at least a small while until it becomes mainstream. Once it becomes mainstream I would expect to easily see mATX boards.

What he said.

The initial expectations of Nehalem is that the CPUs will be $300+ and the motherboards $200-400. That's not really in the realm of micro ATX as we know it today.

 

[firewolfsm]

And we definitely won't see them until the IGP Nehalem comes out.