uATX and mATX

[The_PetrolHead]

Im planing on buying a Bitfenix Phenom mATX Case, but I

 

a) need to know if uATX motherboards will fit in this case

 

and b )   need to find a decent AM3+  mATX (or uATX if possible (above)) motherboard with (possibly) 2x PCI-E 16x 3.0 slots under £60...

 

Can anyone give any info on these???

 

 

Thanks!!

 

 

[nikolaizombie1]

Im planing on buying a Bitfenix Phenom mATX Case, but I

 

a) need to know if uATX motherboards will fit in this case

 

and b )   need to find a decent AM3+  mATX (or uATX if possible (above)) motherboard with (possibly) 2x PCI-E 16x 3.0 slots under £60...

 

Can anyone give any info on these???

 

 

Thanks!!

 

 

 

Yes

[Jonathan W]

Im planing on buying a Bitfenix Phenom mATX Case, but I

 

a) need to know if uATX motherboards will fit in this case

 

Imma say no a uATX board WILL NOT fit in an mATX case since some uATX boards are like 2x the size of a mATX board lol

I may have exaggerated but my point still stands <3

[Liam-McShane]

M-ATX and U-ATX are the same thing. 

 

You may be stretching it on the motherboard side of things. You're unlikely to find a decent board for £60.

[Sakkura]

uATX and mATX are the same thing, as @Liam-McShane said. The u comes from the Greek letter mu, which is used to indicate micro. the m in mATX also stands for micro. So it's just two different abbreviations of micro-ATX.

[Aniallation]

a) need to know if uATX motherboards will fit in this case

 

and b )   need to find a decent AM3+  mATX (or uATX if possible (above)) motherboard with (possibly) 2x PCI-E 16x 3.0 slots under £60...

 

Yes, uATX and MicroATX are the same thing.

 

However you're not going to find great mATX AM3+ boards. The best one out there is the Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3, however it only has one PCIe x16 slot and is NOT capable of overclocking 125W chips

[Jonathan W]

uATX and mATX are the same thing, as @Liam-McShane said. The u comes from the Greek letter mu, which is used to indicate micro. the m in mATX also stands for micro. So it's just two different abbreviations of micro-ATX.

 

 

M-ATX and U-ATX are the same thing. 

 

You may be stretching it on the motherboard side of things. You're unlikely to find a decent board for £60.

 

 

Well fuck me then i guess..I was always told it stood for Ultra ATX and was interchangeable with eATX

[Sakkura]

Well fuck me then i guess..I was always told it stood for Ultra ATX and was interchangeable with eATX

 

I don't think that was ever standardized. Good thing too, because that would definitely have led to confusion.

[The_PetrolHead]

The best one out there is the Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3, however it only has one PCIe x16 slot and is NOT capable of overclocking 125W chips

 

I have this but in the USB 2  version. Problem is i need one PCie 16 for a DUAL PCi slot graphics card (Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660) and then one PCIe (not covered) for an expansion card and one PCI slot for a network card. problem with this board is that the PCIe 1x slot is covered by my twin-slot GPU...

[The_PetrolHead]

ASUS M5A78L-M LX AM3+ AMD 760G/780L uATX (mATX) AMD Motherboard

Will this mobo fir in the Bitfenix Phenom M case? 

[Jonathan W]

ASUS M5A78L-M LX AM3+ AMD 760G/780L uATX (mATX) AMD Motherboard

Will this mobo fir in the Bitfenix Phenom M case? 

 

If you use pcpartspicker.com you can sort out mobos and cases by what is compatible with each other

[Aniallation]

ASUS M5A78L-M LX AM3+ AMD 760G/780L uATX (mATX) AMD Motherboard

Will this mobo fir in the Bitfenix Phenom M case? 

Yes it will work but it's not exactly a great board. What CPU do you have?