Vista SP2 DEATH!

[Wrathek]

btx actually makes sense. the rest of the industry doesn't move because there's no need to anymore. Intel themselves designed BTX, but stopped support when they realized "woah.. we can like.. make the CPUs have more than one core, and more efficient!" (they designed it around halfway or so through P4's lifetime, and at the time only saw the need to run at higher GHz, as opposed to more efficient).

 

But, since the CPU runs more efficiently, and since cases and motherboards are designed better now, fans or what have you can do plenty fine. But i can certainly see why from a business standpoint why you'd want BTX. They only use one big fan in the front, and a big exhaust grill in the back, and thats all they need (beyond the rather large heatsink that said large fan blows across first). This would obviously save a whole lot when it comes to the bottom line.