Picked this up yesterday as I'm in the process of moving my ATX 265k build across to my Ncase M2 Grater case. It's an incredibly stacked motherboard for an ITX form - genuinely is almost more impressive than some full size ATX boards I've used recently.
It can hold up to 4 M.2 drives - 3 on the actual board itself and then one on the daughter board - and the two on the front are all covered with a pretty chunky heatsink. Same situation with seemingly all ITX boards with a max of 3 fan headers (including Pump Header). I wish we'd start to get more fan headers as airflow is so crucial in small ITX builds that often having numerous splitters all over the place can start to make cable management a bit tricky, especially when you've got different sized fans on the same splitter as a result of the limit on headers.
Annoyingly the 'smart' button cap was loose in the box - but pretty easy to just pop back on.
A doddle to flash the BIOS to the latest version which is always great - and supported 8000mhz CL38 (2x24GB) with no issues at all.
The only real concern is the VRM heatsink restricts some of the mounting kits for certain coolers. The Noctua kit fits - but only in a specific orientation. Thermalright seems to be ok with the PA Mini! I'm using a 280mm Titan from Corsair and that mounting fit without any issues so no issue for my build.
The rear IO is great, hopefully we see better ITX boards come to AM5 and not some of the stranger ones like the X870 from Asus where the front panel header is on the daughterboard.
It can hold up to 4 M.2 drives - 3 on the actual board itself and then one on the daughter board - and the two on the front are all covered with a pretty chunky heatsink. Same situation with seemingly all ITX boards with a max of 3 fan headers (including Pump Header). I wish we'd start to get more fan headers as airflow is so crucial in small ITX builds that often having numerous splitters all over the place can start to make cable management a bit tricky, especially when you've got different sized fans on the same splitter as a result of the limit on headers.
Annoyingly the 'smart' button cap was loose in the box - but pretty easy to just pop back on.
A doddle to flash the BIOS to the latest version which is always great - and supported 8000mhz CL38 (2x24GB) with no issues at all.
The only real concern is the VRM heatsink restricts some of the mounting kits for certain coolers. The Noctua kit fits - but only in a specific orientation. Thermalright seems to be ok with the PA Mini! I'm using a 280mm Titan from Corsair and that mounting fit without any issues so no issue for my build.
The rear IO is great, hopefully we see better ITX boards come to AM5 and not some of the stranger ones like the X870 from Asus where the front panel header is on the daughterboard.
