I'm about to embark on a new build after many years on hiatus. I had started looking at the loveliness that is the BitFenix Prodigy case until I realised it was a mini ATX.
Apart from the physical space limitations (I will not be too bothered by that) are there any major disadvantages to using a mini ATX compared to a standard ATX board? Are the boards that are generally available for Intel i7's of comparable speed/quality/bleeding-edge to that of the standard ATX's?
For my build I want quality, speed (games) and not a monolith sized case. I will only be using 1 gfx card for now, an ssd and a HDD also. An optical drive I can either slap in or have external.
I realise this may need to be shunted into the MOBO thread but the question does pertain to general mini-ATX form factor queries.
Also, knowing my forum rules (
) I did search the forums a little for the answer but either nobody discusses the topic or my search skills were insufficient! (I think the latter!)
Apart from the physical space limitations (I will not be too bothered by that) are there any major disadvantages to using a mini ATX compared to a standard ATX board? Are the boards that are generally available for Intel i7's of comparable speed/quality/bleeding-edge to that of the standard ATX's?
For my build I want quality, speed (games) and not a monolith sized case. I will only be using 1 gfx card for now, an ssd and a HDD also. An optical drive I can either slap in or have external.
I realise this may need to be shunted into the MOBO thread but the question does pertain to general mini-ATX form factor queries.
Also, knowing my forum rules (
) I did search the forums a little for the answer but either nobody discusses the topic or my search skills were insufficient! (I think the latter!)
Perhaps to have the option of expandability would be nice though. This would not be a solution offered by my the smaller form factor unless good external soundcards exist.
