Hardware Reference
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The connectors along the rear of the board would interfere with locating bus slots directly
on the motherboard, which accounts for why riser cards are used for adding expansion
boards.
NLX
NLX is a low-profile form factor designed to replace the nonstandard LPX design used in
previous low-profile systems. Introduced in November 1996 by Intel, NLX was a popular
form factor in the late 1990s for Slimline corporate desktop systems from vendors such
as Compaq, HP, and Toshiba. Since 2000, many Slimline systems have used variations on
the FlexATX motherboard instead.
NLX is similar in initial appearance to LPX, but with numerous improvements designed
to enable full integration of the latest technologies. NLX is basically an improved version
of the proprietary LPX design, but, unlike LPX, NLX is fully standardized, which means
