BTX may not work for Athlon 64

2 Jun, 2004 at 10:50am ET Article published in Tech

It has been reported today that Intel’s BTX form factor, a proposed future industry standard, may not work on AMD systems.

The problem seems to be the relative CPU and DIMM placement; the standard requires placement of DIMM sockets too far from the processor. With the Athlon 64’s integrated memory controller, following the BTX spec becomes very difficult.

Source: Techreport

Comments

2 Jun 2004 ~ 12:32pm RWB NOOO!!!

Actually, I don't see the issue, why not just move things around? They're engineers, they can handle that can't they?
2 Jun 2004 ~ 12:43pm Geeky1 I'm sure Ford said that about the Pinto, too...
2 Jun 2004 ~ 12:54pm Thrax Real estate on an Athlon 64 board is not exactly a common commodity.
2 Jun 2004 ~ 2:27pm EyesOnly Why bother making it btx then. Just leave it as atx.
2 Jun 2004 ~ 3:14pm Thrax BTX Speech: "Blah blah blah ATX represents inadequate thermal dissipation in an era that's witnessing exponential increases in heat output."
2 Jun 2004 ~ 6:12pm celcho sneaky intel...
2 Jun 2004 ~ 6:46pm Thrax MY feeling is that Intel wants BTX to remedy the ****ty engineering that went into their new <s>furnace</s> Prescott.
2 Jun 2004 ~ 7:25pm muddocktor Not furnace Thrax, central heating unit for your house.
2 Jun 2004 ~ 9:03pm MJO Why doesn't that surprise me?
Of course intels new standard wouldn't be suitable for the Athlon64.
AMD will have to make an Extreme-BTX standard. (Whoops guess that would be a bit too Intellish?)

Oh well the BTX standard only serves one purpose.
To maximise the heat output from the new PresHot furnace.
Now we wouldn't want all that heat to build up inside the case now would we?
No it has to come out and heat our home. (oh that sounds just great)
3 Jun 2004 ~ 3:06am Gobbles id like to build a dual prescott system so I can funel the heat out and make a dryer for my cloths, the laundry room charges a dollar to dry a load but with a dual prescott system, well I could get a pc and cloths dryer in 1.

Gobbles