I honestly think ATX and eATX are going to go extinct for the consumer market.Maximize wrote: ↑I should add that I don't have anything against ATX tower cases themselves, it's just I like Mini-ITX for the space efficiency. I just hated opening up my tower and seeing so much unused space. Made no sense to me. Obviously if I was using multiple harddrives, optical drives, and PCI cards, then it would make sense, but I've never needed more than 2 harddrives, one optical, and a GPU.
That's one reason why I find some Silverstone cases to be so interesting. They go for unique layouts (for all sizes, for mini, to micro, at full), to try and save space (I wish they weren't so pricey though). Obviously with varying success depending on the specific case.
They just released a new Fortress for full ATX motherboards:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=522
It's hard to tell from the pics, but it basically orients the entire mobo downward (with the outputs at the top of the case). They have a similar model that is much bigger because it allows lots of harddrives to be added, so they save space by removing that.
Interesting. Probably still too big for me, but at least it seems more efficient.
GPUs are getting more and more powerful that you only really need just one.. and that's if you do a lot of graphic-intensive things. Usually the built in GPU is more than enough. Also, pretty much everything comes built in to the mobo these days. Optical drives are probably going extinct as well now that flash drives are getting bigger and cheaper. No need for several 500GB hard drives when you can get a 5TB drive these days. Everything just seems like it's becoming smaller and more all-in-one which is definitely a good thing IMO.