Gateway PC Delivers New Motherboard Standard

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
Gateway's new 700GR desktop PC, based on a new chassis design that focuses on helping cool high-end processors and graphics cards, will be available this weekend at U.S. retail stores.
The 700GR from Gateway comes with Intel's Pentium 4 550 processor, 1GB of memory, a 250GB hard drive, a DVDRW (CD-rewritable) drive and ATI Technologies' Radeon X300SE graphics card with 128MB of memory. The suggested retail price is $1199, without monitor. The PC's BTX (balanced technology extended) design moves the processor, chip set, and memory modules to allow a stream of air to flow through the PC's chassis. The processor is located at the front of the motherboard, where cool air first enters the system. Meanwhile, the graphics chips have been rotated so that their exhaust is directed up into the airflow, instead of down into the chassis.
Will other major mobo manufacturers be far behind with introducing BTX products? -KF

Source: PC World

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2004
    Hopefully not.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    This is funny....
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited October 2004
    baahahaha

    nice catch
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    God, BTX, go the hell away. You suck.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited October 2004
    what's the beef with btx besides new power connectors?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    pics!
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2004
    so P4 550 , 1 gb ram, a 250 gb hdd and... an x300se? what the hell?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    God, BTX, go the hell away. You suck.

    BTX is far better from a cooling standpoint than ATX.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited October 2004
    That's what I understand too Geeky. I know that in most cases you'll have to get another power supply and another case to house the mobo. Other than that I see no other major drawbacks. Plan all the upgrades at one time and it should be a smooth transition.

    KingFish
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    Well, I was just talking to Thrax, and he says AMD says that the A64 cannot use BTX. If that's the case, it will never get off the ground.

    That doesn't change the fact that from a cooling standpoint (and on a properly designed motherboard, a cable routing standpoint) that it is a fundamentally better form factor than ATX. Hell, AT is a better form factor than ATX in a lot of respects.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited October 2004
    If that's the case, it's enough to turn me away from supporting the standard myself. Why won't it support A64?
  • m0wh
    edited October 2004
    comes from the internal memory controller in the a64... it would be placed far too away from memory modules on a btx like mobo...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Precisely. That was the reason cited by the AMD engineers at Computex when BTX was unveiled. I'm sure there are more reasons, but to all of you who have said "Why don't you just (rotate/move) (this/that) component?" -- Don't you think the AMD engineers being paid six-figures thought of that? ;)
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