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RAMBUS was more politic than technical. People loved-to-hate the
Intel/RAMBUS solution and revolted. In the end it was faster but still
lost. Current dedicated platfroms that require high speed RAM (i.e.
xbox) still use RAMBUS.
Ron
"GTS" <gts123NOSPAM@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<I5vsc.473$Vp5.248@newsfe2-win>...
> I wouldn't go with BTX until / if it is established - I remember when Intel
> first released the P4 and using all their corporate muscle to force people
> to use a new case design for it, along with RAMBUS memory! Luckily
> independent motherboard makers started to produce P4 motherboards in the ATX
> form factor to cater for the masses of users with ATX cases, and look at it
> now - all P4 are ATX and thankfully rambus is all but forgotten. I am
> suspicious now of new form factors - is it really an improvement or just
> the industry trying to generate more money for themselves? Another factor is
> ecology - at present you have been able to re-use your ATX case when you
> upgrade, just imagine how many millions of cases there are around the
> world - it would be a terrible thing if over time these all have to be
> scrapped and replaced with BTX. I bet anything that whatever developments
> there are in mobos - PCI Express, SATA, whatever, will be made available in
> ATX format but many of the mobo makers.
> Just my opinion!
> "Larc" <larc-news@jupiterlink.net> wrote in message
> news:epq4b01t7piqfblh0b7f9trml63fhht7b7@4ax.com...
> > On 24 May 2004 14:15:06 -0700, email_invalid@mail2world.com (Email
> > Invalid) wrote:
> >
> > | I am currently considering building a new PC but heard that ATX form
> > | factor was going to become obsoleted by BTX. If that is the case,
> > | should I go ahead and build my ATX computer or should I wait for BTX
> > | components to be available and build a BTX computer instead?
> >
> > Go ahead and build an ATX now. That's what I recently did. You can
> > enjoy it while the kinks are being worked out of BTX. I think you'll
> > be ready for another major upgrade by the time that happens - IF it
> > happens!
> >
> > Larc
> >
> >
> >
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