Intel LGA1155 miniITX motherboards

Tute · 4 Jan 2011 at 21:40

Thought i'd bring any info about these together. I've got most of this off the [H] forums but I thought posters here might be interested.

ASRock H67M-ITX
Here

ASUS P8H67-I
Here

ECS H67H-I
Here

ECS H67H2-I
Here

Gigabyte GA-H67-USB3
Here

Intel DH67CF
Here

MSI H67 Mini-ITX
Here

Zotac H67-ITX WiFi
Here

Foxconn H67-S
Here

I'll try to keep this updated as we get closer but these boards look to be the way to go.

nightmare99 · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:00

Good work

Just need to find a P67 now

Tute · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:13

DFI are gone and they were my best hope. It all falls to Asus now, and the hope that there will be a Republic of Gamers miniITX P67 board.

We can but dream eh?

JonJ678 · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:20

I have fairly high hopes for the Gigabyte one, as their last mini-itx effort seems to have been very popular.

It is indeed tragic that DFI have stopped releasing boards

Tute · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:38

Not necessarily. DFI had the problem of arrogance. I seem to remember good ol' Angry Games and RGone over at DFI Street. They hit the nail on the head - DFI boards are great if you have a cherry picked CPU and RAM, exotic cooling, and time to burn.

If you just want a reliable board that won't blow up, look elsewhere.

I've had their X48 LP board ship refusing to work with the 3870X2. When I tried to update the BIOS to fix it, the board crapped itself and never worked again.

Then the P55 mITX board. The only company to do one, but again, stability was questionable. "I don't like THIS particular RAM". "I don't like THIS particular CPU". Well DFI, **** you then.

As horrible as it sounds, at the end they fully deserved to go bust.

JonJ678 · 5 Jan 2011 at 01:07

Aye, their reputation for stability wasn't great. I like the idea of a motherboard which will cheerfully and without reluctance burn out the cpu, ram and itself on command though. I think it's their "expose every option" philosophy that appeals. I've never bought one of their boards, as I value stability fairly highly, but I do regret not having a play with one. Asus and Gigabyte are less exciting somehow.

I didn't think they'd gone bust though, just pulled out of our market.

Tute · 5 Jan 2011 at 01:22

Well they're not completely bust, just the Lanparty part I believe. The OEM side is still going strong.

They should relaunch their INFINITY boards, those were much better with a bigger emphasis on "working properly out of the box".

gropingmantis · 5 Jan 2011 at 12:06

That Asus board looks great. Despite the fact its the only 1155 board using SO-DIMM.

Borden · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:25

Yup, Asus is top of my list atm. Also like the look of the Zotac and ECS H67H2-I. Hopefully we'll see these on the shelf on launch day!

Tute · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:52

NathWraith said that Overclockers would only be offering the Foxconn at launch.

gropingmantis · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:25

The Foxconn is the only one with no USB3, really shot themselves in the foot there.

Borden the Zotac is nice too but I dont think it supports 1600MHz memory which the Asus does (not that 1600MHz SODIMM is easy to get hold of).

Borden · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:28

Yeh I can't see why they wouldn't include it tbh!

And I wouldn't be overclocking (which you can't do with these boards anyway) so having the faster mem won't matter to me. I also feel a bit of brand loyalty to Zotac seeing as my GF9300 ITX has served me so well!

Meaker · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:34

Woah, that asus with some kingston high speed sodimms would rock.

However who thinks they should get a Mini-PCIe shaped SATA slot on there, you could grab one of intels newest SSDs and have a really compact system.

gropingmantis · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:48

Meaker said:
However who thinks they should get a Mini-PCIe shaped SATA slot on there, you could grab one of intels newest SSDs and have a really compact system.

You could just take out the wifi card?

gropingmantis · 5 Jan 2011 at 17:16

Does anyone know if any of the boards will be running UEFI? As that would be a deal breaker.

Still cant decide between the Zotac or the Asus...need more info!

Guardsmon · 5 Jan 2011 at 19:57

Why would UEFI be a deal breaker?

Pitty about OcUK only stocking (to start with) the only mini-ITX board that I wouldn't want, just want a cheap board that doesn't need to overclock which has USB3 and SATA3 for Blu-ray media PC

Borden · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:01

Guardsmon said:
Why would UEFI be a deal breaker?

Well for me, if I'm buying a new board then I want it to have the new BIOS. While we're still yet to see how large the benefits are that it brings, it's still a feature I'd like to try for myself and therefore for me it would also be a deal breaker.

nightmare99 · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:03

You could just take out the wifi card?

While it is the same mechanically it is not the same electrically.

Turambar · 5 Jan 2011 at 21:01

What are MSI thinking with that 1x PCI-E slot?

Guardsmon · 5 Jan 2011 at 21:51

Borden said:
Well for me, if I'm buying a new board then I want it to have the new BIOS. While we're still yet to see how large the benefits are that it brings, it's still a feature I'd like to try for myself and therefore for me it would also be a deal breaker.

Still lost on this, you say you'd want to try it, but you wouldn't buy a board with it?