We reported on Intel’s new form factor, BTX, a while ago with the promise to investigate things further when actual BTX products were available. Well, we’ve just been handed a AOpen B300 micro-BTX case, an Intel i915 chipset micro-BTX motherboard and supporting processor heatsink kit a few days ago and we set to work to evaluate it. The motherboard and case we’ve been sent supports the new micro-BTX form factor which, in terms of motherboard size, is comparable to micro-ATX. As mentioned in our previous article the BTX standard defines a new layout for the motherboard where the two major contributors to raising the case temperature, the processor and graphic card, have direct airflow over them.



Link: Hardware Analysis