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Does Size Really Matters?
Reported by evanshuang on Tuesday, January 5 2010 9:56 am
The current PC market sees a rise in demand for M-ITX solutions. But with the with ATX and M-ATX motherboards already flooded in the market , will going small means you have to sacrifice in performance? Read on to find out more.
Introduction
As technology advances, the size gets even smaller. Recently there is a significant rise in the consumer trend of going small, even motherboards has shrunken its size from ATX to M-ATX, and now to M-ITX.
Currently the market sees a flood of Mini-ITX solution motherboard on sale, ranging from the low powered Atom solution, to the more powerful Intel G41/G45/P55 chipsets or AMD 785G chipset which allows you to put in your favourite processor.
Now the question comes, with the shrink in size, would there be a trade off in performance sake? We shall find out.
As technology advances, the size gets even smaller. Recently there is a significant rise in the consumer trend of going small, even motherboards has shrunken its size from ATX to M-ATX, and now to M-ITX.
Currently the market sees a flood of Mini-ITX solution motherboard on sale, ranging from the low powered Atom solution, to the more powerful Intel G41/G45/P55 chipsets or AMD 785G chipset which allows you to put in your favourite processor.
Now the question comes, with the shrink in size, would there be a trade off in performance sake? We shall find out.
