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Upcoming Mod - should I go BTX?

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Thinking of ordering a new case simply for modding.
I thought of the Antec P180 but I'm wondering: should I wait for BTX? Because when this project is done, I'll be creating a new rig for it. Might take me a few months so I don't know if I should go BTX and stay on ATX.
 
BTX is dead and has been that way for months, if not years.
 
the only reason to go btx at this moment is if you WANT a btx case... its supposed to be the future... i personaly think its stupid , they should have just fixed the agp and pci spec when they released pci express the whole idea was to make it so the hottest parts where toward the bottom so the heat had a chance to rise, (becuase with pci and agp cards the chips and mos fets are on the wrong side of the card, ) and with pci-e/x they could have simply said, "lets put it on the other side" instead they redesgind the case's... talking about over complicateing a simple issue...

the other issue i have with btx is that now.. all the sata and pata (some boards) are now at the top, and the drives are all the way in the bottom, meaning you HAVE to strech the cables all the way acrossed the case... usually with less than steller results...

the only BTX cases worth getting are the lian li v1000-2000 series IMHO

that said... bts cases exist... but good luck finding a (decent) motherboard...

so unless you simply want a v1000-2000 case... dont bother... there damn nice cases but dont buy one because you want btx, buy one because you want that case

thore
 
Lian-Li gives the option of buying a BTX backplate, BUT they are not BTX cases. They are reverse ATX. Hope this clears everythign up.

 
i think the term everybody is thinking of is WTX, not BTX. as already said, BTX is long dead now. i do think that cooling wise, WTX works pretty well. i've long thought of doing it to my pc-61, but haven't worked up the cajones for it. :( i do wish lian-li would just issue a pc61 series WTX style. buuut i'm sure all their production facilities wouldn't allow that.
 
I don't think BTX has been dead for years, since last year I would read articles and specifications about BTX being the future for cases, like before any BTX motherboards/cases were made.

I actually thought it was still in development since I hadn't heard anything about it in forever.
 
Yeah... I thought we were going to BTX, not running away from it.

Not that I'm disagreeing with anything said here. I don't claim to know about it... just saying that's the impression I was under.
 
ChingChang said:
I don't think BTX has been dead for years, since last year I would read articles and specifications about BTX being the future for cases, like before any BTX motherboards/cases were made.
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WTX was also supposedly the 'next best thing'. That one also kind of fizzled out. Biggest difference with BTX was that it had less marketing behind it.

I actually thought it was still in development since I hadn't heard anything about it in forever.
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BTX has been used by some OEMs (Dell, etc.) for a small fraction of their systems, but that's about it. This also echoes WTX's history, basically.

BTX was most likely designed by Intel as a direct consequence of the Netburst-architecture slowly desintegrating, most notably due to the increased TDP-rating of each core revision, which lead to cooling issues. Now that Intel has decided that Netburst is dead, and returned to the PIII design with the Pentium M, any benefits of BTX over ATX for (P4) Intel systems have pretty much vanished. This also explains why Intel is no longer pushing BTX the way they did before.
 
Elledan said:
BTX was most likely designed by Intel as a direct consequence of the Netburst-architecture slowly desintegrating, most notably due to the increased TDP-rating of each core revision, which lead to cooling issues. Now that Intel has decided that Netburst is dead, and returned to the PIII design with the Pentium M, any benefits of BTX over ATX for (P4) Intel systems have pretty much vanished. This also explains why Intel is no longer pushing BTX the way they did before.
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that, and now intel has to focus more on catching up to AMD then squashing AMD now.
 
The Stacker towers can also be flipped from ATX to BTX if you switch boards later. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it - ATX isn't going away anytime soon, and BTX isn't exactly overwhelming the marketplace.
 
BTX has little to offer, it's barely even a step up from ATX. There's no point in changing it and any reason to "push" it is to get more people to cough up some $.
 
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