Gigabyte Z68 ITX cancelled?

scrlk · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:11

Sad news from ITXGamer.com (http://forums.itxgamer.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=151).

HAVOK from ITXGamer.com forums said:
As of August 5th, my contact at Gigabyte says they cancelled their Z68 Mini-ITX motherboard project. They are not sure if they will fire it back up again either.

However, their new A75 platform mini-ITX board should be out soon.

Was really hoping for this, I don't really like/trust Zotac & ASRock with their offerings.

HighlandeR · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:41

didnt think anyone would wait for gigabytes offerings even if it did come out its just too far off...

Whats so wrong with the Asrock offering ?

scrlk · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:45

HighlandeR said:
didnt think anyone would wait for gigabytes offerings even if it did come out its just too far off...

Whats so wrong with the Asrock offering ?

Old habits sometimes never die. It's just that I 'trust' a Gigabyte product more than an ASRock one. :confused:

Sounds illogical doesn't it? (although I do like some of their new boards like the Z68 Extreme7 Gen3)

beejjacobs · 5 Sep 2011 at 00:44

I had a Zotac one a while back (LGA775) which was excellent.

gropingmantis · 5 Sep 2011 at 08:22

Yes this is bad news indeed. I don't know how the ASRock OCs but the Zotacs can't go past 4.5GHz and make lots of noise and generally have not great reviews.

I was hoping the Gigabyte board would OC better and have higher quality components...not to mention muuuuuuuch better customer support.

Legion · 5 Sep 2011 at 11:44

gropingmantis said:
Yes this is bad news indeed. I don't know how the ASRock OCs but the Zotacs can't go past 4.5GHz and make lots of noise and generally have not great reviews.

I was hoping the Gigabyte board would OC better and have higher quality components...not to mention muuuuuuuch better customer support.

No mosfet cooling on either the Asrock or Zotac,avoid like the plague.

Participant · 5 Sep 2011 at 12:22

Legion said:
No mosfet cooling on either the Asrock or Zotac,avoid like the plague.

Well if you do that, you're left with...nothing, all because of no mosfet cooling. Meh.

Legion · 5 Sep 2011 at 12:30

Robbie G said:
Well if you do that, you're left with...nothing, all because of no mosfet cooling. Meh.

Indeed,I gave up in the end and went M-atx due to the lack of a "quality" Z68 M-itx board.

N19h7m4r3 · 5 Sep 2011 at 12:57

Jeez, what ever happened to real overclockers?

People that took a mediocre motherbaord and turned it into a beast.
Buy some mini heatsinks, put them on the mosfets, get a large downblowing HSF, watercool.

So many options out there, it's like people just want every board out there to make thei Sandybridge chip hit 5Ghz automatically.

M-ITX is tiny, it's feature stripped compared to bigger boards because it's small and the need to keep costs down.

If you really wanted an m-itx system you'd build one and improve it to make it as good as possible. Not complain and then not bother.

Speaking of the OP, it is sad that Gigabyte pulled out. Everyone has a first choice, and mine was always Asus. Since the 90's.
On that note have the Z68 Asrock and I love the board. I've not done much overclocking due to still having the intel stock cooler, but it's a solid board with far less problems then the Zotac if you look around.

People on [H]ard forum even found some of their dead Zotacs still has the plastic cover on the thermal pads on the heatsink. There's also that annoying buzzing sounds from the caps on it.

Legion · 5 Sep 2011 at 13:14

N19h7m4r3 said:
Jeez, what ever happened to real overclockers?

People that took a mediocre motherbaord and turned it into a beast.
Buy some mini heatsinks, put them on the mosfets, get a large downblowing HSF, watercool.

So many options out there, it's like people just want every board out there to make thei Sandybridge chip hit 5Ghz automatically.

M-ITX is tiny, it's feature stripped compared to bigger boards because it's small and the need to keep costs down.

If you really wanted an m-itx system you'd build one and improve it to make it as good as possible. Not complain and then not bother.

I don't need a lesson in M-itx thanks,I've had several builds in the last few years.

The last "quality" board for a beastly little gaming rig was the Gigabyte H55N-USB 3.
I ran an i5 760 in one quite happily at 4ghz for months on end at full chat in "near" silence before SB was released.
I want a board to replace that kind of durability not some pos from Asrock or Zotac.

The available Z68 boards are not "quality",there's no complaint in that statement merely fact!

scrlk · 5 Sep 2011 at 13:36

N19h7m4r3 said:
People on [H]ard forum even found some of their dead Zotacs still has the plastic cover on the thermal pads on the heatsink. There's also that annoying buzzing sounds from the caps on it.

Caps don't make noises, it's the coils.

gropingmantis · 5 Sep 2011 at 14:13

N19h7m4r3 said:
Jeez, what ever happened to real overclockers?

People that took a mediocre motherbaord and turned it into a beast.
Buy some mini heatsinks, put them on the mosfets, get a large downblowing HSF, watercool.

So many options out there, it's like people just want every board out there to make thei Sandybridge chip hit 5Ghz automatically.

M-ITX is tiny, it's feature stripped compared to bigger boards because it's small and the need to keep costs down.

If you really wanted an m-itx system you'd build one and improve it to make it as good as possible. Not complain and then not bother.

Speaking of the OP, it is sad that Gigabyte pulled out. Everyone has a first choice, and mine was always Asus. Since the 90's.
On that note have the Z68 Asrock and I love the board. I've not done much overclocking due to still having the intel stock cooler, but it's a solid board with far less problems then the Zotac if you look around.

People on [H]ard forum even found some of their dead Zotacs still has the plastic cover on the thermal pads on the heatsink. There's also that annoying buzzing sounds from the caps on it.

Dont be silly the Zotacs aren't limited by the lack of cooling, its in the BIOS options that the OC is limited.

pumaz · 5 Sep 2011 at 14:54

I've always used Asus and Gigabyte boards but I'm seriously considering the ASRock but I don't get the negativity surrounding the Z68, I've not seen a bad review or any reported problems :confused:

gropingmantis · 5 Sep 2011 at 14:59

pumaz said:
I've always used Asus and Gigabyte boards but I'm seriously considering the ASRock but I don't get the negativity surrounding the Z68, I've not seen a bad review or any reported problems

I am yet to see any results from people overclocking the ASRock so will withhold judgement on that but the Zotac Z68 has hardly had rave reviews...or even any good ones and plenty of widely reported issues.

spike2011 · 5 Sep 2011 at 15:43

Hell this does not sound good only have one board to pick asrock z68 itx an was hoping it was good enough it maybe was not looking to overclock to 5ghz anyway 4.5 to 4.7ghz will be enough for me want to upgrade this year but may just upgrade my atx tower system first an wait for better itx boards sometime next year.

N19h7m4r3 · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:15

gropingmantis said:
Dont be silly the Zotacs aren't limited by the lack of cooling, its in the BIOS options that the OC is limited.

I never said it was limited by cooling, I was addressing his point that they weren't cooled.

Also who the hell needs over 4Ghz anyway?

If you're only a gamer you'd never need over that or possibly even that. Specially at anything over 1080 res as it becomes GPU limited then.

It's not like the GPU is cpu bottled necked, since you're only running one GPU on an m-itx system.

Participant · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:31

It seemed to me that small builds were gaining in popularity, the digital living room and all that...which is why I'm surprised that gigabyte aren't bothering. Maybe people are buying wdtvs instead.

gropingmantis · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:37

N19h7m4r3 said:
I never said it was limited by cooling, I was addressing his point that they weren't cooled.

Also who the hell needs over 4Ghz anyway?

If you're only a gamer you'd never need over that or possibly even that. Specially at anything over 1080 res as it becomes GPU limited then.

It's not like the GPU is cpu bottled necked, since you're only running one GPU on an m-itx system.

Actually there was an article floating around somewhere with evidence that you need atleast 4GHz not to bottleneck a GTX580. I shall go find it now. Also being able to OC means you dont need to upgrade so often.

We'll be the ones laughing next year when you have to fork out for a new processor and motherboard. Also didn't someone say that Ivy Bridge CPUs would be compatible with Z68 boards?

Edit: Oops the article was about SLi 580s LOL. Nevermind. My other points still stand and if you can why shouldn't you? If the world was made up of people like you we'd still be living in caves. Being a human is about pushing the boundaries.

N19h7m4r3 · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:51

yes Ivy is compatible, also I probably won't even get one.

I've had a Phenom 9650 since it's release and also a Phenom II 940, I've replaced the 9650 with my current 2600k and the Phenom II is now my parents.

I don't have the need to constantly upgrade motherboard or processors. The only things I change are the GPU( only because I run at 2560x1440) and adding an extra HDD or SSD.

gropingmantis · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:55

N19h7m4r3 said:
yes Ivy is compatible, also I probably won't even get one.

I've had a Phenom 9650 since it's release and also a Phenom II 940, I've replaced the 9650 with my current 2600k and the Phenom II is now my parents.

I don't have the need to constantly upgrade motherboard or processors. The only things I change are the GPU( only because I run at 2560x1440) and adding an extra HDD or SSD.

Well why do you have the i7?

Also who the hell needs hyperthreading anyway?

If you're only a gamer you'd never need that.

So STFU.