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M-ATX? Micro ATX or Mini ATX?

1) What's the difference between Micro ATX and mini ATX and when people refer to M ATX does that mean Micro ATX or Mini ATX?

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MATX = Micro ATX

 

MITX = Mini ITX

 

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Usually people saying mini atx are confusing mATX and mITX. 

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I think that M ATX is micro and Mini is just Mini ATX. But what difference is the size of the boards where ATX is the largest and Micro the smallest. There is also E-ATX wich is larger than ATX. (Not sure about the naming of mini and micro though)

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Normally its the size of expansions slots, I think, Its Mini then Micro (Micro being bigger) and when people say M ATX I see it at Micro ATX. I haven't seen many builds with Mini Atx builds

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I think that M ATX is micro and Mini is just Mini ATX. But what difference is the size of the boards where ATX is the largest and Micro the smallest. There is also E-ATX wich is larger than ATX. (Not sure about the naming of mini and micro though)

Mini ITX is the smallest board, not Micro ATX.

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Micro Atx or Mini-iTX is all  what 99% of the population needs, still don't know why people buy ATX motherboards/cases

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Mini ATX isn't a thing. Micro ATX is a step below standard ATX, and Mini-ITX is a step below that. It's mostly to do with the amount of memory slots (M ITX: 2, MATX and ATX: 4) and PCI slots (M ITX: Max of 1, M ATX: Max of 4, ATX: Max of 7)

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What are you planing to do first do all parts like procesor and if you ar going to use deticated graphic card

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