Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Dan3]

Re: BTX and AMD...

BTX is basically Intel copying what Antec started shipping last year as the Performance 1 and Sonata cases.

120mm fan in the rear plus an option for a second 120mm fan in the front to provide good cross flow ventilation without making noise.

We've been using these Antec cases for dual Opteron workstations for many months. To get the MSI-9131 in it you have to bend the leading edge of the motherboard tray, but the IWill/Arima HDAMB fits without modification.

Intel hasn't come up with anything by themselves for quite a while now. They copy Antec's case designs and call it "BTX", they copy AMD's 64-bit architecture and call it EM64-T, they copy AMD's NX security design and call it whatever it was they decided to call it.

I wouldn't worry about BTX - I can testify that it's been a fine case design for dual Opteron systems for almost a year, now.