Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Whatever happened to BTX? From Yahoo. Read the whole thing, it's good. Looks like another INTC fiasco.

http://www.itweek.co.uk/comment/1159992

I recently looked at a BTX evaluation box from Intel, and can now reveal why it's taken so long to surface. It must have taken several months of production from the world's bauxite and copper mines to generate enough metal for the processor's heatsink (sorry - Thermal Interface Module), which is about the size of a small bungalow. If you don't believe me, check out the first web link below. It's actually a combined fan and heatsink, as the fan sits against the case's air inlet grille sucking in cool ambient air, plus any unsuspecting small rodents that happen to pass.

The reason for this monstrosity is Intel's power-hungry Prescott Pentium 4 chip, which has long since broken the 100W barrier. And this is why I think BTX is doomed for business use, although it might appeal to the PC "modding" fraternity, where size is everything and empty real estate inside the box is lovingly filled with flashing LEDs and garish neon lights.