MoboCop · 11-12-2004 · Category: Tech-planations

LPX

Overview

This is based on a design by Western Digital. The expansion slots are on a single riser card which is mounted onto the planar board. Mainly OEM manufacturers (i.e. Packard Bell/NEC, Dell, etc) use these boards.

The distinguishing characteristic of LPX is that expansion boards are inserted into a riser that contains several slots. So the expansion boards are parallel to the motherboard rather than perpendicular to it as in other common form factors, such as AT and ATX. The LPX design allows for smaller cases, but the number of expansion boards is usually limited to two or three.

Contents

1. Motherboard Form Factors
2. AT
3. Baby AT
4. ATX
5. Mini-ATX
6. microATX
7. FlexATX
8. LPX
9. Mini LPX
10. NLX
11. BTX
12. picoBTX
13. microBTX
14. PC/XT
15. Mini-ITX

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