BTX

(Balanced Technology EXtended) A motherboard design from Intel introduced in 2004 that supersedes the ATX. Unlike the ATX, the placement of all chip sockets in the BTX is defined in order to provide sufficient air flow over the processor and display adapter. microBTX and picoBTX provide smaller form factors. See PC motherboards.

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BTX can mean:

• Bildschirmtext
• A mixture of Benzene, Toluene and Xylene; the process being known as the BTX process
• B't X, a science fiction manga and anime television series created by Masami Kurumada
• BTX (boot loader), the standard boot loader for FreeBSD
• BTX (form factor), a form factor for PC motherboards
• Batrachotoxin, a neurotoxic poison that blocks sodium channels.

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