Mini-ITX board for 2500k

KwanMan · 5 Jul 2012 at 16:49

I'm looking to downsize from ATX to mITX in a Bitfenix Prodigy. I'm trying to decide between Z77, H77 and Z68. Will the new chipsets give me any advantages if I'm going to run a sandybridge cpu in it? And what does Z77 have over H77?

Gav_881 · 16 Jul 2012 at 21:53

Z77 will only give you CPU OC'ing on an ITX, extra PCIe x16 slots is the general advantage with Z77 over H77. i think all your gonna get over Z68 is sata 3.0 and USB 3.0.

gropingmantis · 16 Jul 2012 at 22:08

Z chipsets allow overclocking and H chipsets dont. The Z68 boards had loads of issues (mainly because they were made by Zotac

) so I would go Z77. Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe if you dont mind forking out that much for an ITX mobo. Else the ASrock is your only other choice.

Orcvader · 16 Jul 2012 at 23:14

See if you can grab either of these boards:

http://ie.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77I_DELUXE/

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77E-ITX/

Both are great ITX boards that should allow your 2500K a beefy overclock.