Thread: Looking For A BTX Motherboard for Gaming?

Hi, I possess the Dell Dimension 5100 (White and smoked grey case) I love the PC case devise and wouldn't desire to observe it go to waste. It has a very good air ventilation design that has provided my Pentium 4 chip noiselessly for the past 4 years. (Or so.) I never hear the fan turn.

Now getting down to the solemn part, the present Mobo is a basic Dell BTX Motherboard that is pure junk. The FSB on the ram can only hold 533 MHz and it's only PCI-e 1.0 well-suited.

What is the BTX to the G31 kind motherboards?

I believe that you will have troubles result one.

EBay has some box boards for am2 and the Intel 965 chipset, which was the fastest one accessible. After 965, no more new chipsets were designed for the btx stage. You can also search yahoo, pricewatch, or Google. Amazon.com or purchase.com may also have listings from venders. Newegg had a beautiful rosewill case yesterday for $49.99 shipped that came with a free 500w power supply. I would suggest a good atx case, such as the antec 300 or one of Newegg's rosewill intends. Then you can use whatever motherboard you desire for all the newest processors. You can also wait for windows 7 to be released in this year and buy a new structure with it preinstalled.

Hmm... Is there any mode of modifying the situation? For example, in its place of it opening from the RIGHT side to enter the case, make it so the LEFT side (ATX) opens. I signify, it shouldn't be that solid.

The heatsink used was overwhelming. It's a massive one -fanless and it remains the CPU below 50 when maxed out.

Nope, the direction is completely diverse. Unless you have the tackle to unsolder, create new holes and new electrical paths then solder them to new places, I don't think it'd be economical.

Maybe it is time to get a novel pc; there have been a couple of builds and suggestions that were made in the forums on creating silent or near silent HTPCs (that could also game).

Honestly, you would be a bunch improved off getting a latest case. BTX boards are rare and obscure. Your choices and the standards you will be able to find will be limited harshly by not going with ATX. I've never used a Dimension 5100 case, but I would be quite literally stunned if it were even close in cooling presentation to an Antec 300 or CoolerMaster 690, both of which can be found for around new. If you actually think the fans, heatsink, etc. are that good and quiet, you can forever keep them unless Dell used some weird proprietary parts, but I envisage you'd find that available 3rd party products are much better. For things like heatsinks and fans, big manufacturers like Dell pretty much not at all use high end parts, because their customers don't know or care to ask for them and would rather pay less for sub-par components. Again, I have no specific experience with this machine so maybe I'm way off base, but I have never seen a Dell case or cool component that was worth saving for a latest build.

Aww, if only you know. Thats why I fell in love with this case and asked for a BTX motherboard to improve. The airflow to the CPU was so well thought through, I'm suprised they discontinued the design. It has a huge geniune SUPER SILENT 160mm fan on the front of the case, that sucks in air via its air vent straight onto the heatsink. (PS: It's one of the major heatsinks I've seen in my life!! It's fanless, due to the airvent directly blowing onto the heatsink.) I leave the system running for 3 days flat sometimes, and I assure you not, I don't hear a hickup from the PC. It is on my desk, right next to me, my ear, and it just dosn't make a sound, its like there are no fans... It's like its fanless, with a water cooler or somthing. I would one day create a youtube video review just on this case.

If I had the money, I would buy this design from dell for a few hundred thousand, convert it to ATX.

Yes, true: it's going to be a main restore, & you could get a nice ATX based system for the similar funds but I went BTX for the similar reason as God brother - the things are silent: I keep in mind the first time I switch it on & thought I hadn't plugged it in it was so quite.