Whatever happened to BTX?

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Just wondering what happened to the BTX form factor for cases/psus?

I remember a couple of years back it was supposed to be taking over from ATX, however it seemed to be mainly Intel pushing for it, whereas AMD seemed reasonably content to stay with ATX.

At the time I thought there were a lot of potential pitfalls, especially as upgrading core components (motherboards) is a lot more common than it was at the time the switch from AT to ATX was made. Also with there now being a serious rival to Intel this decade I guess they don't have the clout they once had in terms of bullying the industry into accepting their desired standards.

So, what does the future hold in terms of form factors?
 
BTX was introduced because of p4 cpu's running hot.. AMD have always been cool so they were not interested and after c2d came out there is no real need for it.
 
Dell uses BTX I think. The C521 that my Mum recently got has the motherboard mounted to the left of the case, rather than on the right.
 
The upside down cases mounting mobos on other side cause issues with heatpiped mobos as most dont contain a wick they need be upright.

BTX was not intending that, it was still mobo on same side of case but complete mobo layout was different as the ATX layout is really old and relied on the PSU fan to draw air over all passive components back in the day. :)
 
yeah dell seem to use btx for some reason in some of there cases unless its just upside down mounting
 
The old AMD run hot joke was Thunderbirds (hey they won the GIG race ;) ), I had a 1.2DDR then 1.44DDR (skipped 1333DDR) and they ran 70C idle and on load 90's easily and peaked at times at 143C max (really bad mobo back then with Ali chipset ran hot as hell), thats why the die was on brown ceramic not green plastic like todays.
 
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