How long will the ATX format be about for?

Abyss · 5 Mar 2007 at 03:49

As per title, how long is the ATX standard likely to stay dominant? Will BTX take over?

geff_r · 5 Mar 2007 at 07:57

Even if btx does come about soon i bet there will be adapters / screw kits
to make an atx case into btx.

Lethal` · 5 Mar 2007 at 07:59

Can already do it with my case xD

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EirePlane · 5 Mar 2007 at 08:15

As far as I know, BTX (ATX's successor) motherboards are already available out there but are rare. BTX was designed as a replacement because of the heat generated by modern processors at the time. The fact is that modern processors now are much more efficient and so generate less heat making the newer BTX form factor worthless

Hades · 5 Mar 2007 at 08:54

BTX was launched quite some time ago now. It has failed to make big inroads and in my view has failed. I doubt it will takeover from ATX anytime soon.

FoxEye · 5 Mar 2007 at 10:32

Read in the INQ that Intel has now all but abandoned BTX. It didn't catch on.

Will_3rd · 5 Mar 2007 at 10:34

From reviews that I've seen, BTX is nigh on impossible to properly upgrade as their is little room to work.

semi-pro waster · 5 Mar 2007 at 10:47

BTX was, as already mentioned, designed to be the most thermally and electrically efficient design(e.g. shortest pathways for data etc), unfortunately it also meant that many components or plugs seemed to be in pretty stupid/awkward places from the few BTX motherboards that I've seen.

ATX has done not too badly for a standard that has been around for probably 10+ years now and I don't know of anything on the horizon that is likely to gain dominance just yet.