mico atx vs atx

[mercury24]

What are the pros and cons of an atx sized motherboard vs a mico atx sized motherboard besides the obvious size . My friend is telling me the mico atx is the better way to go and is the future . So let me hear from you guys . 

[QuantumBit]

I'm pretty sure theres no pro/cons besides micro ATX being smaller....

[RGProductions]

4 minutes ago, mercury24 said:

What are the pros and cons of an atx sized motherboard vs a mico atx sized motherboard besides the obvious size . My friend is telling me the mico atx is the better way to go and is the future . So let me hear from you guys . 

ATX is more expandable and more expensive. Micro ATX is smaller and cheaper, however harder to find a z series chipset in.

[hconverse02]

Micro is smaller and if you have the money, you can get a small case and a high end reference card (and an ssd) and take your tiny ass computer wherever you go

[RGProductions]

1 minute ago, hconverse02 said:

Micro is smaller and if you have the money, you can get a small case and a high end reference card (and an ssd) and take your tiny ass computer wherever you go

That's ITX.

[hconverse02]

58 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

That's ITX.

Thats what i meant

[incarnate]

There's no real pros and cons beyond the size and number of expansion slots. I guess you could make the argument that micro atx boards fit in more cases, but again that's a size thing.

 

Your friend is full of shit btw, micro aux boards have been around for a long ass time and still haven't taken over.

[done12many2]

4 minutes ago, incarnate said:

Your friend is full of shit btw, micro aux boards have been around for a long ass time and still haven't taken over.

 

I was thinking the same thing, but enjoyed your subtle approach!  

[komar]

+ its usually cheaper than a full size board

- limited number of all kinds of ports ( sata / ram / m.2 if it has any... / PCIe and etc)

- usually no OC features or really crappy ones that at the end blow it up 

- no fancy buttons or debugers or anything cool that you can see on the expensive ones

 wanna continue?

[0ld_Chicken]

I personally prefer m-atx boards and cases now, although a couple years ago I was all about full atx.  I guess I realized that I'm NEVER going to use more than 2x SLI and I really don't have any need for any other pci peripherals like ssd or wifi.  I guess atx is still nice when air cooling so you can get some space between cards, but I've moved on to watercooling and I cannot really see myself going back. 

 

Not all m-atx boards are crappy OC'ers either.  My m-atx z97 gryphon keeps up with what my atx z97 classified was able to do and it never even breaks a sweat.  ASRock has the z170m OC formula which is a GREAT board for OC (although its ATX brethren is also great) 

[Himommies]

4 minutes ago, komar said:

+ its usually cheaper than a full size board

- limited number of all kinds of ports ( sata / ram / m.2 if it has any... / PCIe and etc)

- usually no OC features or really crappy ones that at the end blow it up 

- no fancy buttons or debugers or anything cool that you can see on the expensive ones

 wanna continue?

There are microatx boards that can do all of those well they are just around 50 dollars more then their atx counterparts

[komar]

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

There are microatx boards that can do all of those well they are just around 50 dollars more then their atx counterparts

i agree but if you want high end are you really gonna go for mini atx that limits you for almost everything?

mini itx, for the way i see it at least, its and will be a  budget choice