BTX (for Balanced Technology eXtended) is a form factor for motherboards, originally intended to be the replacement for the aging ATX motherboard form factor in late 2004 and early 2005.

The 'performance' BTX heatsink consists of a large, cylindrical chunk of aluminum, spiral-finned to allow air to flow easily over its surfaces from any angle. The 'mainstream' BTX heatsink is a more conventional stacked aluminum fin design.

Sep 19, 2024 · Discover the key differences between ATX and BTX form factors. Learn their pros, cons, and which is best for your PC build or upgrade. Your ultimate guide here.

A standard BTX design measures 325mm x 266mm and supports up to seven add-in card slots. For sizing down to smaller form factors, Intel is providing two different designs: a microBTX, measuring 264mm x 266mm with up to 4 add-in card slots and a picoBTX measuring 203mm x 266mm with up to 1 add-in card slot.

Nov 15, 2004 · Intel released news of their Pentium 4 570J just yesterday when they lifted the NDA (non-disclosure agreement) on it. Check out our benchmarks here. Today, a day after they released their 3.8GHz...

Six months ago Intel announced the release of a new format of motherboards, the BTX (Balanced Technology Extended). This new format should substitute the current ATX standard in the next few...

BTX has been designed from the ground up to scale well. The two smaller BTX types, microBTX and picoBTX, reduce motherboard area mainly by sacrificing expansion slots. They keep the core features of the BTX form-factor intact, allowing them to be cooled by the same means as full desktop BTX boards.

BTX (Balanced Technology eXtended) is a new personal computer form-factor that has been designed to replace the ATX case and motherboard layouts our computer components are currently built around. At the moment it is an Intel-only proposed standard, as AMD currently has no plans to support the BTX form-factor.

Nov 15, 2004 · BTX is a new form factor that is enabling the next generation in PC system design and enables the industry to strike a better balance in thermal management, system size and shape, and acoustics -- all critical attributes to innovate desktop PCs for …

Jun 1, 2005 · BTX is more than just another form factor. BTX hopes to make computers smaller and quieter by changing the component layout on the motherboard. This article will serve as a primer for BTX as it stands today. When Intel released the BTX standard in 2003, ATX was going stronger then ever.