Ooooh shiny shiny at OcUK!

gropingmantis · 28 Jul 2011 at 10:04

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.

gropingmantis · 28 Jul 2011 at 13:31

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.

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 · 1 Aug 2011 at 21:12

Montala said:
Just checked the link in the OP and the price is down to £129.98 already!

Good spot. Thanks OcUK!

gropingmantis · 2 Aug 2011 at 01:02

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?

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.