ATX motherboard?

TFleming · 16 Feb 2010 at 11:35

Just got my case and noticed it says it only supports the ATX series, is this motherboard ATX? Probably a noob question but i'm a bit of a novice.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS

Thanks

Philtor · 16 Feb 2010 at 11:43

Hi yes this is a full size ATX board which should fit your case fine. You also get Micro ATX or 'MATX'.

TFleming · 16 Feb 2010 at 11:45

Phew, thanks a lot!

Chris_Hebden · 16 Feb 2010 at 11:47

How do you know if its an ATX and how do you know if it will suit your case?

TFleming · 16 Feb 2010 at 11:53

The case manual will tell you but not sure about how you know it, i THINK that all modern motherboards are ATX after a wiki search but wasn't 100%

eddyc · 16 Feb 2010 at 12:08

It is a bit complicated on the ocuk site.

I think the main mobo size formats are:

ATX, microATX and miniITX - I am sure there are several others but I think these are the main ones.

A miniITX is really small and has its own section.

You can differentiate ATX from microATX from the shape of the board. microATX boards are almost square whereas ATX boards are rectangles. The other way of checking is that in almost all cases ATX boards have 4 slots for RAM whereas microATX have only 2 (I am not sure if this is true for all of them).