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Tuesday February 20, 2007
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AMD has finally posted its DTX motherboard specification, which means that there's a new option in town for those who want to build (or buy) a small form-factor PC.
The key here is that AMD has risen to its current status in part by being extremely willing to work with the industry, while Intel has been seen in the past as pushing motherboard and chipset companies into certain directions. If this is true, then we should have a number of new choices in small-form-factor PCs.
We previously covered this at the CES show this past January. DTX comes in two variants--standard and micro. Both versions offer two expansion slots. A standard DTX board would be approximately 9.45 inches by 7.9 inches, while the micro version is about 7.9 inches by 6.7 inches. Contrast this with the current micro ATX boards, which are 9.6 inches by 9.6 inches, with four total expansion slots.
The standard DTX board is essentially a microATX board with two of the slots pared off. This particular size actually allows four circuitboards to be silkscreened on a typical PCB sheet.
Post by Mark Hachman
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February 27, 2007 8:34 AM
"while Intel has been seen in the past as pushing motherboard and chipset companies into certain directions..."
Some call it push, I call it pull.
Intel drove ATX, USB, PCI and a host of technologies in the PC space with their own $money in open forums. This is just another example of opening a good article with a biased premise.
November 17, 2007 5:53 AM
better than others