[Solved] Definition of MicroATX

What exactly does MicroATX imply?

Wikipedia's telling me it just refers to the physical size of the board. So is it safe to assume that micro boards are just as powerful as their non-micro counterparts or will there be a drop in speed?

They are much cheaper so there has be a catch. I can't find a benchmark chart or anything comparing a mobo to its Micro.

ATX=7 expansion slots
mATX=4 expansion slots, and they usually dont support as many fans and such

oh jeez. I forgot to take into account how many fans these board can support. Are these plugged into the PCI slots?

apologies while I try and familiarize myself with these abbreviations.

I'm trying to walk through each of the stats and make sure it's checking out with the rest of my build. Just today I changed my mind and decided to get the Z68 instead of the H61 and I was worried some of my already-puchased pieces are incompatible.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813157270

I only have one HDD and one SSD so the two 6gb SATAs will be fine, right? I can't find any numbers talking about fans but I'm just going to assume it fits accomodates three fans.

I was worried about the power supply as it was 20+4pin but it turns out that means it can be either 20 or 24 pins so that's nice. The RAM is fine and i can only assume the graphics card is too. Is there anything else I should verify as far as compatibility goes?

Best answer selected by LetsOlympics.

Ok , well good luck with your build.