EP-8KTA Form-Factor
The EP-8KTA is designed with ATX form factor - the new industry standard of chassis. ATX form factor is essentially a Baby-AT baseboard rotated 90 degrees within the chassis enclosure and a new mounting configuration for the power supply. With these changes the processor is relocated away from the expansion slots, allowing them all to hold full length add-in cards. ATX defines a double height aperture to the rear of the chassis which can be used to host a wide range of onboard I/O. Only the size and position of this aperture is defined, allowing PC manufacturers to add new I/O features (e.g.; TV input, TV output, joystick, modem, LAN, etc.) to systems. This will help systems integrators differentiate their products in the marketplace, and better meet your needs.
•Smaller size promotes a smaller system size.
•I/O shield does not need to be retooled in an ATX 2.01 or later. The mainboard should be used in an ATX 2.01 (or later) compliant case.
•A smaller power supply can be used. High integration on mainboard reduces the system costs.
| Expandable I/O | Single chassis |
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| | fan for system |
| ATX | ATX power connec- |
| Power | tor |
| Supply |
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| Full length | CPU located near |
| slots |
| Power Supply |
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| Floppy / IDE | | | | |
| | 3 1/2" | 5 1/4" | |
| connectors | | |
| | Bay | Bay | |
| close to | | |
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| peripheral | | | | |
| Figure 2: Summary of ATX chassis features |
| bays |
