P67 M-ITX motherboard lookout thread

Paul. W · 10 Jan 2011 at 11:25

Im sure quite of you are in the same situation as me - waiting for the release of a P67 MITX board to upgrade our lovely little rigs.

If anyone finds any info on these post it here

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Tute · 10 Jan 2011 at 12:02

I'm in the same boat. I think i'll go with an H67 board for now, and stay on the lookout.

Asus ROG mITX please?

gropingmantis · 10 Jan 2011 at 12:13

Same here too. Ill probably get the Foxconn on OCUK as a holding card till Z68 which is more likely to go mITX than p67.

+1 for a ROG mITX

Tute · 11 Jan 2011 at 11:48

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20219

Fortunately, Gigabyte has more than one Mini-ITX motherboard in the works for Sandy Bridge. A P67-based model is on the way that will drop the display outputs in favor of CPU overclocking support. Naturally, you'll need to run a discrete graphics card with that particular model. We don't have much in the way of additional details on the P67 offering, but the H67 version should be ready by the end of the month.

dekez · 11 Jan 2011 at 11:52

I'd be interested in one of these as well, I just hope it can handle the overclocking.

JonJ678 · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:36

Tute said:
Asus ROG mITX please?

Two full length pci-e slots on a mini-dtx board would be perfection as far as I'm concerned, would jump ship to Asus in a flash for that.

Not sure ROG and one graphics card makes sense though.

Tute · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:49

It would mean a pair of single slot cards though. So you'd be limited in that respect.

JonJ678 · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:52

True that. The market for people with two watercooled graphics cards, who also want to put them both in a very small box (which still contains a high wattage psu and large radiator), is probably a very small one.

edit: Having just typed that out I don't think I'm in that market either. So perhaps there's no market there whatsoever. Certainly my recent google for "sli mini-dtx" turned up nothing.

Guardsmon · 12 Jan 2011 at 22:30

especially as you'd have to remove your PCI bracket to fit it in as most cards (even watercooled) come with dual slot PCI brackets.

Tute · 12 Jan 2011 at 22:48

Sadly, if you're hell bent on Crossfire, then your only path on mITX/DTX is a dual GPU card.

Micro ATX is the path to do with a pair of separate cards. I seem to remember Shuttle had a Crossfire barebones with a pair of single slots - but like Guardsmon said, it'd have serious drawbacks these days with anything decent needing at least two slots.

JonJ678 · 13 Jan 2011 at 00:34

It's OK guys, I know it isn't a great plan. Even if I find a mini-dtx motherboard with two slots.

I'm overly attached to my (single slot) 8800GT's, but at a TDP of 150W each, putting two of them in a mini-itx size case is never going to work. I've considered m-atx, but it doesn't seem significantly smaller than atx is. Mini-itx with a single 8800GT is by far the most sensible approach for me to take.

Tute · 13 Jan 2011 at 00:37

You need to let go and get something like a GTX580 and an SG07.

gropingmantis · 13 Jan 2011 at 00:44

Tute said:
You need to let go and get something like a GTX580 and an SG07.

Amen to that! Anyone know how long the 6990 cards will be

Small but mighty is the way forwards!

gropingmantis · 3 Mar 2011 at 17:17

B3 is starting to ship, do you reckon we will see P67 mITX coming with it?

Kanifee · 3 Mar 2011 at 20:38

Watercooled crossfire

that would work.

Working on a watercooled fractel array but sticking with a zotac gf9300 and my quad Q9450 for now, ill upgrade to a new socket in a few months once the boards mature

Tute · 3 Mar 2011 at 21:02

gropingmantis said:
B3 is starting to ship, do you reckon we will see P67 mITX coming with it?

Not until the ATX and micro ATX channels are full of stock at least. I wouldn't expect to see much in March tbh.

Participant · 3 Mar 2011 at 21:08

Just dropping in to say I'm in this club. When a decent P67 ITX board is released, that's when I'm upgrading to a gaming Sandrybridge HTPC

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gropingmantis · 3 Mar 2011 at 21:24

Tute said:
Not until the ATX and micro ATX channels are full of stock at least. I wouldn't expect to see much in March tbh.

This annoys me. Just because its a smaller market doesn't mean that we dont have needs too. Marketing makes me a saaaad panda.

edit: unintentional pun lol.

Azza · 4 Mar 2011 at 10:26

I want to go mini-ITX now! But I have no money and it'll be such a hassle to sell my PC as it is while I'm in uni!

brendan · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:19

Personally i'd love the smallest board possible with a x16 PCI-Express slot and another PCIe x4 (at least) slot (for GFX and NIC).

I think mini itx is a little small to do that, so i might have to go micro ATX...