How many ?
The majority of parts sold is large ATX's and I'm the only idiot who runs microatx it seems and I questioned why is everyone blindly buying ATX?
Multi gpu is so rare, people use external dac's, no-one uses nics anymore (I am one though) and at most I've seen someone add a wifi card if the motherboard doesn't have it.
Probably a fair bit im guessing if manufacturers are still making and pushing ATX boards. Sometimes its about that future upgradability of a platform. Not to forget those that populate all their vacant PCI-Ex slots with GPUs for things like F@H, WCG, BOINC & those that use their GPUs to encode massive videos and those working in in educational establishments and other professional places of work that need to run complex calculations with their Compute features GPUs offer. Some people might build their system into a Server and require spaces for multiple RAID cards.
Oh and cryptominers. They love the ATX
People arent blindly buying ATX (youre making blanket statements again) Its all about future upgradability. Some people might want to be able to plug in expansion cards rather than fork out for a new motherboard when they require some extra functionality. Things like Wifi cards, Soundcards, PCI-Ex NvMe Storage Cards, RAID cards. USB expansion cards, Video Capture cards.
It also leaves room to replace something on the motherboard if it dies. Ive had to install a USB 3.0 expansion card because the ones on mine died. Some just require the extra I/O --- Its all about giving the consumers choices and upgrade paths they can take to customise or get the most out of their PC rather than Locking them down to something they might need to fork out a lot more to upgrade further down the line.
Youre not an idiot Its just that you bought what you thought was right for you. you made your purchase based on your own needs.
Multi-GPu might of been more popular in the past but it is still here and there are loads of people that still run them even though AMD and Nvidia have kind of stepped back from hyping multi-GPu setups. It was a headache to get right and neither of them could really manage it 100% Some games worked really well while some games different and would not run very well and this issue was much more exacerbated on mutli-GPu setups that had more than 2 GPus. Its not as rare as you think though the market has been shifting towards single powerful GPu setups again.
I find the people who use external DACs a lot more rare tbh.
I'm not saying stop making ATX, but I was simply wondering why it's still the standard as it's 100% not a requirement for the masses.
But do search up computer builds posted online, that is enthusiasts and I hardly see any populated PCI-E apart from a single GPU.
And by the way, Multigpu works fine in µatx.
Like i said, Its about giving the consumer choices to do what they want and customise their machine the way they want. Everyone's requirements are different. Even yours and Multi-GPu might work fine but what if you want to add in a soundcard or video capture card or any other expansion card for that matter.... There wont be any room and you might be limited to a PCI-Ex 2x or 4x slot which might make what you want to install a bit of a problem.
