Intel LGA1155 miniITX motherboards

[Lunatic Dreyfus]

Very jealous of the hordes of mITX boards for you Intel boys.

It's not easy being a blind fanboy.

 

[Tute]

Hordes?

You mean like the Foxconn, and.... er..... oh.

 

[Tute]

Just to let people know, i've seen the ASUS P8H67-I and Intel DH67CF board up for sale in the UK.

OcUK still only seem to have the Foxconn for now though.

 

[gropingmantis]

Any info on prices?

 

[Tute]

Intel around £100, Asus about £120. As it stands I still think the Foxconn is the one to go for at it's price unless you must have USB3/Wifi.

 

[Tute]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4724467&postcount=141

Looks like there WILL be more boards in the Asus Gene lineup. What or when, nobody knows. Worth waiting for?

Will most likely be microATX but well... can we dream of a mITX Gene?

 

[gropingmantis]

Hopefully P67 mITX that doesn't use SO-DIMM. Seriously Asus what were you thinking?

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Tempted by an upgrade.

Current is:

Q9450 @ stock
4GB DDR2
Zotac GF 9300-I-E Nvidia

Would the video performance be better running the on-board GPU on one of these H67 boards compared to mine? Also would an i5 sandy use less power than my current set up?

 

[Tute]

I have to admit, i'll probably just go for the Intel board again if/when I go Sandy Bridge.

I came to flash the BIOS today. Very worried as i'd lost three boards to duff BIOS flashes before.

Downloaded the file, extracted it, ran it.
Box pops up - "This computer will now restart".
Computer restarts.
On the bootup screen, it tells me it will now update the BIOS. Progress bar comes up, shows me how it's getting on.
Flash completes, system reboots, Windows boots.
All done.

Seriously, Intel may make some very simple boards with limited features, but what you do get, works incredibly well.

I think an Intel "Extreme Series" P67 mITX would make me wet myself.

 

[koolpc]

What about a good AMD mini itx board?

 

[Tute]

Oooh, harder to find but they are out there. As the "all singing, all dancing" board i'd recommend the J&W 890GX-USB3 owned by our own Lunatic Dreyfus in this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18209716

If you don't want to spend that much there are offerings from Sapphire, and J&W that are cheaper. You just start to lose CPU support if you slash the budget (I only know of the 890GX-USB3 that can carry X6 CPUs in that form factor).

If you're serious about doing a mini ITX AMD build, i'd just stump up for the top board, saves headaches.

Of course, Bulldozer is showcased in less than a month, with retail ETA of April (ish). Can you wait?

 

[trakker1]

Do we have any news of when to expect anything other than the Foxconn one? No doubt this intel problem will delay.

I have a foxconn board as a stop gap till a better board comes, I need more SATA sockets

 

[Tute]

A quick Google will bring up the Intel and Asus boards, with varying stock levels.

I can't link you from here i'm afraid.

 

[anemos101]

Looking forward to a nas setup with the Zotac mobo and a new i3

 

[kagg8]

I have the foxconn h67s, and I cannot for the life of me find where I can change the RAM timings in the bios...sounds silly but I have honestly looked under all options, how do I do it?

 

[gropingmantis]

You can't. H67 doesn't support any overclocking, that means no changing of anything...at all.

 

[kagg8]

so the ram I got states it can do 1333mhz @ 8-8-8-24 and cpu-z says its doing 665.3Mhz @ 9-9-9-20...

Am I losing out on a lot of performance? :s

 

[gropingmantis]

No it will be running at 665.3x2=1333mhz (provided you have 2 DIMMs?) but it will have 9-9-9-20 clocks so you are only missing out on the clocks which won't make a huge difference.

 

[kagg8]

yes i have 2 sticks of 2gb ram, so I guess its fine the way it is...thanks a lot

 

[Ricki]

Is there any news when any of the LGA1155 boards will be available?