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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-010-ZT

Zotac Z68 in stock £144.98

I am still waiting to see if the price comes down on this when the other manufacturers release their Z68 ITX boards. ASRock announced one the other day. Trouble is I am finding it hard to justify that price for a Zotac board...A Gigabyte or MSI board that could clock over 4.5GHz maybe but not a Zotac one that has had fairly meh reviews so far.

Hopefully the price is just a cash in on people who aren't patient enough to wait and hopefully Zotac will bring the price down soon.

Now hurry up Gigabyte and bring yours out.
 
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I think that's a bit too pricey at the moment. Needs to be closer to £120 to make it attractive over the H67 boards.
 
Checking that board, it's just dawned on me I shouldn't bother with an overclockable board if I ever get round to pimping my ITX which is about the size of a phone book.

Tried it with a Zotac 9300 board and an E8400 and it took about half an hour for case temps to return to normal afterwards.

Really ain't a plan to overclock something with the airflow of a closed drawer for anything more than benchmarks.
 
Hotwired said:
Checking that board, it's just dawned on me I shouldn't bother with an overclockable board if I ever get round to pimping my ITX which is about the size of a phone book.

Tried it with a Zotac 9300 board and an E8400 and it took about half an hour for case temps to return to normal afterwards.

Really ain't a plan to overclock something with the airflow of a closed drawer for anything more than benchmarks.
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There are some cases out there that should be able to cope. Especially with Sandy Bridge chips running so much cooler than most others.
 
gropingmantis said:
There are some cases out there that should be able to cope. Especially with Sandy Bridge chips running so much cooler than most others.
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I currently have an i5 overclocked to 3.6Ghz and a GTX 570 in a Silverstone SG07 case with a Corsair H50, no heat problems at all so i'd imagine a Sandybridge would be even better....
 
Well personly i wouldn't bother. I have the Zotac Z68 from the importer and already on my 2nd!

Max clock is 4.5ghz
It speeds up and down no set full power
BIOS is buggy
Bord is buggy
It does it's own thing unless you deep cmos clear
2 board so far and both have dead 2nd ram slots


I've an as rock on the way, hoping thats going to be better
 
it would be nice to have a watercooled mini itx gaming computer :)

but at the same time i would prefer to have a proper tower to show off :D
 
I was too keen and pre ordered one elsewhere. Silver SG06 arrived but a bit disappointed in the case build quality, RAM, CPU and Intel SSD should get here tomorrow. Shuriken cooler fits and it doesnt need a back plate...
 
Nice to know the Z68 boards are getting to retail, but there are three problems for me:

1) Bulldozer.
2) The price.
3) I don't overclock, so I may as well just go for something H67 flavoured?
 
Tute said:
Nice to know the Z68 boards are getting to retail, but there are three problems for me:

1) Bulldozer.
2) The price.
3) I don't overclock, so I may as well just go for something H67 flavoured?
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Bulldozer? For mITX? Are there ANY AM3+ ITX boards out there? And going on the quality/range of AM2+/AM3 ITX boards I wouldn't hold out for that.
 
There aren't. AMD have until Bulldozer launch to get something out there, otherwise it's Sandy Bridge for me.
 
I haven't seen any plans on a 990 ITX! Will BD even be here on the new date. AMD has fudged good and proper er!

If you don't OC then just get an i7 2600K and a decent ITX bord, plenty going cheap around, and just stick with the turbo boost mode. Slap an SSD in (OCZ series 3 highly recomend) and away you go. Small and powerfull!
 
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