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BTX case for full size board

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I am looking for a BTX case that will hold a full size board for @ $50. Any idea where to get some?
 
If I am not mistaken as far as a case is concerned there isn't much that differentiates BTX from ATX right? May I ask why you are wanting that?
 
mrmylanman said:
If I am not mistaken as far as a case is concerned there isn't much that differentiates BTX from ATX right? May I ask why you are wanting that?
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you cannot put a BTX board in an ATX case
 
Wow that Mozart TX is enormous.

Yeah I have a Dell at work, it's BTX. Makes sense, I'm not sure why it didn't take off. I'm sure they could find a way around any design challenges there are.
 
LM3 said:
HP, Gateway, and Dell are all using BTX.
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Technically BTX is dead. Intel, who designed and maintained the spec, gave up on it. Some OEMs are now using BTX-inspired configurations for some of their systems, but these are unlikely to be compatible among each other and are more akin to the OEM-specific systems we saw a lot in the 90s. You also won't find replacement parts for those systems except from the OEM itself.

Two words: throw-away system. Much like the Compaq and eMachine systems of lore :)
 
You have to look at the BTX layout and you'll see why it failed. The position of the components made it great if you had a really hot CPU and a northbridge with the memory controller on it. AMD never went to BTX because the RAM was physically too far away for a CPU with a integrated memory controller and it was detrimental to performance. Enter in Intels new CPUs with integrated memory controllers and the CPUs with the integrated PCI-E 16x for graphics. With ATX, both the ram slots and the expansion slots are closer to the CPU.

Go to New Egg and look at all the prebuilt i7 computers from Gateway, HP, etc. All are either ATX or R-ATX setups. BTX is now completely dead, even for OEMs.
 
I wonder if they will ever replace ATX (barring radical new technology that completely changes computing anyway)
 
my brother has a Dell XPS 420 Case. BTX based. His Mobo shit the bed so i built him a new ATX Gaming Rig and he has no use for the case.
 
I don't think the OP will find a full size BTX case for $50. micro BTX cases and the 5 expansion slot cases are much easier to find cheaply. ebay has some 5 expansion slot gateway fx btx cases, one is $50 shipped. Be sure to check that it mounts a standard BTX heatsink. The older model gateway I had used its own model with non-standard mounting holes and required a proprietary heatsink.

You can get a Dell Optiplex 755 barebones tower on ebay with case/psu/motherboard (Q35 chipset, supports up to Q9x50 with A14 BIOS) for $100 shipped. It needs a heatsink though, which you can get for under $20 shipped.

<3 BTX cases.
 
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