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The great mystery which is BTX has finally begun to unfold over the last month or so... finally!
This post serves for people to put any information they might know, and for those who would like to know more (like me!)
The designs are impressive... and give for excellent cooling of CPU and chipset. Not to mention a handy location for the Graphics card.
I have been reading that the BTX boards (the 1st ones anyway) will have ATX power connectors on them as well... for at least some small degree of backward compatibility (never mind the fact that you need a new case!). Does anybody have the faintest idea of what a BTX power connector looks like? Any pics or diagrams would be appreciated.
Another observation I have made is that the PCI-Express 16x slots on the BTX boards are about the size of an oldfashioned PCI slot... but the PCI-Express slots on current ATX server boards are much bigger (the size of 64-bit PCI slots) Does anybody have an explanation or any info regarding this?
All of the boards sizes showcased so far: BTX / MicroBTX / PicoBTX... all have only 1 PCI-Express 16x slot. Do you recon there will be boards with more? Will there be an Extended-BTX form factor???
I have not seen any mention of Dual CPU on BTX form factor. Anybody know anything about this?
I think this about covers my questions on the BTX form factor... for now at least.
The information I DO have came from THIS ARTICLE right here on anandtech.
Cheers!
Kaji.
This post serves for people to put any information they might know, and for those who would like to know more (like me!)
The designs are impressive... and give for excellent cooling of CPU and chipset. Not to mention a handy location for the Graphics card.
I have been reading that the BTX boards (the 1st ones anyway) will have ATX power connectors on them as well... for at least some small degree of backward compatibility (never mind the fact that you need a new case!). Does anybody have the faintest idea of what a BTX power connector looks like? Any pics or diagrams would be appreciated.
Another observation I have made is that the PCI-Express 16x slots on the BTX boards are about the size of an oldfashioned PCI slot... but the PCI-Express slots on current ATX server boards are much bigger (the size of 64-bit PCI slots) Does anybody have an explanation or any info regarding this?
All of the boards sizes showcased so far: BTX / MicroBTX / PicoBTX... all have only 1 PCI-Express 16x slot. Do you recon there will be boards with more? Will there be an Extended-BTX form factor???
I have not seen any mention of Dual CPU on BTX form factor. Anybody know anything about this?
I think this about covers my questions on the BTX form factor... for now at least.
The information I DO have came from THIS ARTICLE right here on anandtech.
Cheers!
Kaji.