thetechlounge.com — First off, BTX and DTX have nothing in common. Intel made BTX so their OEM partners could cool a smoking hot processor; AMD didn’t have to wrestle with heat issues. BTX had several requirements for CPU and other hardware placement that interfered with ATX mounting; DTX is fully compatible with ATX cases. Read on for more...
Jan 11, 2007 View in Crawl 4
vulpesJan 11, 2007
Format wars spark up and fade shortly afterwards. What is the point of fixing something that isn't broken? ATX has been good to us for nearly a decade and there isn't a point in changing.-<a class="user" href="http://dropboxes.info/">http://dropboxes.info/</a>
mabhatterJan 12, 2007
in a matter of speaking Intel did have the slightly better FPU... which matters squat for office apps and web browsing... AMD had the faster processor hands down with Athlon 64 for a good 3 year run! Intel finally got back on top with a crazy streak though with core duo. But other posters are correct, AMD suffers mostly from the "intel only" OEMs... AMDs in business class computers are almost always in the "low-cost" segments with the crap parts making them look "cheap" to those used to the old days of AMD playing catchup... that kind of kept the stigma alive... then Intel got the "premium" treatment... and Everybody wants the premium brand, right... no "second best" here. That and Dell took so very long to start selling them!!!
obkenobiJan 12, 2007
That is most likely exactly what it is. The mini-ITX market seems to be expanding with all the focus on media servers and HTPCs these days. Plus mini-PCs can double as a video game emulator, hardware firewall, or p2p client. Why cripple yourself with proprietary "media centers" from MS and Apple when you can put one together that is a full-fledged PC with no restrictions? AMD might be onto something...
handrailJan 13, 2007
well, while the creation of BTX was not solely for cooling, temperature issues definitely played a role in their creation. even wikipedia lists more reasons:<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_motherboard">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_motherboard</a>his article has some opinions regarding AMD and their future use of the board. keep in mind too that this is a REPORT from AMD themselves, so obviously it is going to be slanted towards the AMD side of things. i don't read that the article is implying that intel is forcing anything on anyone. in fact, it reads more like they worked specifically with dell because dell had the capacity to retool their motherboard layouts with relative ease and they were willing to do so...not unlike how Apple is working with Cingular/AT&T to develop new cellular services for the iPhone.