Small X79

[gropingmantis]

Still too big for me but still impressive.


http://www.fudzilla.com/motherboard/item/24734-msi-shows-its-micro-atx-x79-motherboard

http://www.techpowerup.com/154405/ASRock-Shows-Off-First-LGA2011-Micro-ATX-Motherboard.html

Sorry to link and run but imgur is playing up this evening so you'll have to link through to see pictures.

 

[gropingmantis]

Molex connector on the ASRock board. Wat?

Yeah not a clue. Maybe SB-E reqires more power than we thought and the usual 24-pin + 8-pin ATX is not enough. I know that other X79 boards have 6-pin PCI-e power sockets on them so I guess ASRock just went with something they thought a lot of people would have extra of.

 

[gropingmantis]

Any chance of mini ITX do we think?

Quad-channel SO-DIMMs would be the only way. Would be cool though but very very unlikely, there are no 1366 ITX boards and that was only tri-channel.