Keeping mATX alive :)

[NuclearPenske7]

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[NuclearPenske7]

2 minutes ago, CUDAcores89 said:

I don't really understand why more people don't use mATX in their builds and go directly to mITX or just ATX. mATX gives you the best of both worlds with a compact size while still allowing for plenty of expansion.

Lack of case and motherboard selection mainly. There are only 4 mATX offerings with the Z390 chipset, only 2 of which have built-in Wi-Fi. There are zero AMD B450 mATX boards with built-in Wi-Fi.

[Fasauceome]

mATX is alive and well, as it's just the cheap version of ATX in many cases

[fabafaba]

5 minutes ago, CUDAcores89 said:

I don't really understand why more people don't use mATX in their builds and go directly to mITX or just ATX. mATX gives you the best of both worlds with a compact size while still allowing for plenty of expansion.

My favorite thing about mATX is the 16x PCIE slot right under the I/O. I'd love to go SLI, but with the empty space above the top 16x slot on ATX I don't have enough space with my current config.

[Jrasero]

On 1/7/2019 at 5:41 PM, CUDAcores89 said:

I don't really understand why more people don't use mATX in their builds and go directly to mITX or just ATX. mATX gives you the best of both worlds with a compact size while still allowing for plenty of expansion.

There is a huge difference between a mATX case compared to mITX in terms of size.  Really the smallest mATX case is a 15L-18.5L while a good mITX case that can still support a full sized GPU can be 7L-13L.  Sure mATX offers more options in terms of features and even performance but for most people mITX is more than enough 

[NuclearPenske7]

On 1/15/2019 at 8:55 AM, Jrasero said:

There is a huge difference between a mATX case compared to mITX in terms of size.  Really the smallest mATX case is a 15L-18.5L while a good mITX case that can still support a full sized GPU can be 7L-13L.  Sure mATX offers more options in terms of features and even performance but for most people mITX is more than enough 

I would argue mATX is a good choice for most people already doing ATX builds. There was a time when I used ATX and even XL-ATX when multi-GPU, internal sound cards, capture cards, etc. were still relevant, but most builds these days use single GPU and maybe 1 expansion card at most.