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How Far Is BTX Off?

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CaseyJ70

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I've been eyeing up the Wavemaster for awhile now. I have an older Lian-Li that my friend wants to buy. I'm just wondering how far is BTX off though. I mean I don't wanna buy a 200 CDN case only for BTX motherboards to come out right after.

Also will BTX require a different power supply too? Thanks.
 
I believe Intel is gonna make some PCI-E BTX motherboards. when though I dont know.

But that doesnt mean ATX will die. It'll be around for a good long while still so dont worry.
 
AMD hasn't made any annoucements about it that I know off. Only Intel so far. It still a little ways away though.
 
Last I heard all the case manufacturers were pissed that Intel is trying to go to BTX because it costs the manufacturers tons of money to prototype cases. I wouldn't expect to see BTX as a significant factor until at the end of 2005.

However, with Intel's new dual-core chips pushing 180Watts, they will probably just start requiring mini-fridges to be used as chasis.

But that's just my SWAG (Silly Wild-Ass Guess) ;)
 
Gateway just announced that they were going to be releasing one BTX system at some point. Noone else appears to be doing much of anything with it.

BTX isnt going to wipe out ATX anytime soon ya know, most everyone is ignoring it outright... its theoretically useful for cooling future, higher-temp system. Most motherboard/case makers appear to think there's still enough headroom in the ATX design to not spend a dime on BTX.
 
It's very likely that BTX will remain limited to systems produced by OEMs.

There's simply no compelling reason for anyone to switch from ATX to BTX, and sometimes it's even impossible (Opteron and possibly Athlon64 layouts won't work with the BTX spec, so BTX will remain Intel-only).
 
AMD doesn't really like BTX because its difficult to work an A64 setup in it. There is no good way to get even traces from the CPU to the RAM in BTX(as opposed to from the northbridge to the RAM as in an intel system with the memory controller in the NB). Not that anyone can stop Intel if they feel like doing something.
 
So I should be fairly safe for a couple years if I buy a Wavemaster and use an AMD setup in it? Thanks for all the help guys.
 
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