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pinetar · Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:58 pm

i am considering building my own box to allow room for components and cooling options. Is atx the only option?

Usacomp2k3 · Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:06 pm

There is BTX, and also SFF cases like the ones that use micro-ATX boards.

Gungir · Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:07 pm

No. The two most common options aside from ATX are Micro ATX (smaller motherboard) and BTX (an ATX board mounted upside-down). A few rare systems will have Extended ATX boards, but that's most for multi-core systems with their processors on separate dies. ATX is by far the most common form factor, and a vast majority of heatsinks, cases, and components are designed to work with it.

UberGerbil · Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:09 pm

No, but it's by far the most common option. There's extended ATX for server and multi-processor boards; there's micro-ATX for smaller form factor applications. There's mini-ITX for extremely compact (and low power) applications. There are a lot of custom boards used by Shuttle and the other SFF barebones mfrs. And then there's BTX, developed by Intel and mostly used by a few OEMs but rare in the DIY community. But ATX offers by far the widest set of choices.

flybywire · Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:11 pm

Your selection of boards will be extremely limited should you decide not to go with ATX or microATX.

Hance · Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:12 pm

also as far as i know there are no BTX motherboards for amd . if you want amd BTX is pretty much ruled out . there are far more options for ATX than any other form factor no matter what processor your going to use .

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