From the news post: After being sent some pictures of a WTX case the other day by Koolvin and thinking - hey, someone put the motherboard tray on the wrong side! - the modding mind sprung into action again... Yet another project taking weeks to devise, iron out and re-think - finally, from the Moose Mod Works, comes the CoolerMaster ATC-201 modded to be WATX!!! I've been informed that the WTX case standard gives a greatly increased level of airflow in your case where it counts - over the CPU and such. So, in this WATX offering you can expect all the cooling benifits that you'd associate with being up the wrong way round (i.e. Australian) with just a touch of 'wow' and a hint of 'omg you freak'.
Simply its where the mobo is mounted upside down so the cpu is at the bottom where its supposedly cooler, for the pci/agp slots to still be at the back the board needs to be mounted from the left hand side (when looking at the front)..................
Why cant they just design a board thats up side down then?? Suppose youd need to change the cases completely though...
you can't design an upside down board because the PCI cards or whatever have the potential to block the heatsink etc... the WTX standard is just that - a standard. You can buy WTX cases - though they're not popular yet and thus quite expensive.
The Cold Forge is WTX. But it still aint out yet and will be hideously exspensive. P.S. If you dont know what im going on about you should read the hardfourms
if you're a modder and you don't know about the coldforge, please jump in the bath with your computer while reading http://www.so-trickcomputers.com/coldforge.shtml
funnly enuf I nearly did that with a laptop But back to the coldforge must have black anodized case with red panels.....
<awkward mode> Ok, if the PCI cards get in the way, why cant you just have it old socket 7 style in the bottom right hand corner???
bad ascii art ahoy! Code: _______________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | |----agp-------- ________ | |----pci-------- | | | |----pci-------- | | | |----pci-------- | | | |--- isa --------*|________| | |______________________________| ^ ^ the problem would occur here older cards especially the longer ones could cause problems with the heatsink
Who uses ISA in modern athlon/P3 boards anyway?? My a7v133 doesnt. Or why not just make the board bigger?? - ie full ATX size (again like a7v133 or Tyan Thunder). /me goes off to write to mobo manuf.
yeah I know no-one uses them, but the mobo manufacturers have a specification to stick to, and that limits their options...
