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"ASUS announced its first Republic of Gamers (ROG) motherboard in the mini-ITX form-factor, the Maximus VI Impact, which could go on to become choice number one for SFF gaming PC builders. Arguably the most feature-rich mini-ITX motherboard ever made, the Maximus VI Impact is a socket LGA1150 motherboard based on Intel Z87 Express chipset, which supports 4th generation Core "Haswell" processors"
http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/18...therboard.html
Instant winner. A single GPU is all you need to run games at TV resolution, and this form factor makes it much more convenient in the living room.
Must resist urge to buy.
I am really interested in replacing my current beast machine with something smaller but equally powerful. Intel need to hurry up and release some 6 core mid range CPUs around the 4770 price range. Then id be sure to buy one along with this and a GTX 670 Mini
Already posted.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post5191592
If there was a preorder list I would already be on it
the title matches the thread
That is bad ass
that's just straight up fap worthy... i will be buying one as soon as they come out.
That board is made of pure win.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...m8VJn7tNgpFgtQ
Now CaseLabs just needs to make a cute, but manly, mini-ITX case for me.
Yeah what I find lacking in the ITX arena is the decently small cases.
Things like a Prodigy aren't really an ITX case if it can physically fit mATX (with modding ofc).
Give me something tiny!
-PB
Wow, looks pretty sweet.
Like All-In-One that im making that have got stripped AOC 27" i2527Fm Panel, Asus mini-iTX board, GTX780, Corsair H110, 2x3.5 HDDS, 2xSSD's and 750W ATX psu?Quote:
Originally Posted by paulbagz
All fitted inside 27" AIO frame made from 2mm thick aluminium.
And yes its heavy :/
or then decent miniITX case made by NCASE http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=ncase
shame its still in testing stage, hope it gets released this year
Pics?!?!?!?!
Yeah, need more cases that do GPUs horizontally with risers imo.
-PB
No pics yet. Need get it from nearby factory that works with aluminium, there is still few parts to be cut but i think within month i will have first version ready for testing, when it is ready for testing i will make thread in case forums with pics of testing version of it.
First version willl be, 135mm thick (35mm just for panel since i want be 100% shure it fits in, i will prob. make it slimmer at end, something like 20-25mm for panel part), just 624mm wide and 394mm tall.
Im quite unshure how to make corners smooth, maybe need weld the corners.
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But, back to topic lets not make this news topic about my AIO case :)
Not quite shure if i wait for that Asus Maximus VI Impact and buy 4770k or just use Asus P8Z77-I DELUXE and 3770k.
I really wish they'd start making boards like this compatible with ECC/registered memory. The price for a 16GB stick of ECC is barely much more than 2x8GB, and if they're going to give me a board that's capable of carrying 32GB of RAM then let me use it!
RAM drives for all!! :yepp:
Or the rip offs from Lian Li, they made out of the NCASE ideas .. :down:Quote:
Originally Posted by rintamarotta
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3129
The ROG Impact looks great but the price probably won't be that great ...
At July Il testing it in review and part with LN2 :)
waiting
According to raja at asus, July time frame for release. Possibly early to mid July.
Does anybody know if the integrated audio supports EAX3, 4 and 5? For older games (like COD2), it's a must have. I need something like ALchemy from Creative, so I'm having a hard time upgrading my soundcard (X-Fi). In a board like this, there is no way to upgrade the integrated sound card.
Probably, all the ASUS sound stuff is some fancy stuff to gussy up a realtek product with the creative software slapped over it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andi64
Totally useless.
Care to elaborate ?Quote:
Originally Posted by prava
The daughter board ain't useful at all. For what I've been reading comparing the other Asus that had such board, the P8Z77-I Deluxe, the difference between it and the Asrock Z77-E ITX are minimum. Also, this new ROG version not only comes with such daughter board, but also with YET ANOTHER daughter board for... a DAC? It makes absolutely no sense at all, and I have no idea why people are digging this board so much. It offers nothing interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scubar
For starters, why would you want the best overclocking Z87 board... when you are going to put it into a mITX enclosure? The S3, prodigy and the like are only mITX because they say so, because volume wise they are MUCH bigger.
Because for some people, especially myself, an Xtreme system means cramming 5 lbs of :banana: in a 10 lb bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by prava
Personally, not only would I occupy every one of those SATA ports but I'd find an ITX case that I could mod the piss out of and slap on a 7990. Why? For the challenge and the laughs. Heck, I want to get one just to try out if it unofficially supports ECC RAM.
Well as mentioned previously, it's time for case makes to make proper SFF cases and not the high volume cases you describe (with ITX hole mounts).
-PB
Too bad Prava doesn't get it. Mini itx used to be the tinkers board or htpc. We all dreamed about making a crazy super powerful mini computer but never could, kinda like putting a Chevy 350 into a Mazda miata. To get the performance we wanted there was really only one option, build a full size. Asus made Matx possible with the Maximus gene, and we loved it, but we were always looking over the fence at those itx boards wishing. Now I can build a light weight super system into just about anything, I get all the performance I want from the full size boards. I get my cake and eat it to. It doesn't hurt the board looks amazing as well
I havent looked to much but it'd be nice if theres an mini ITX case out there that you could possibly put 2x240 rads in the top or on the back of. That way itd be small enough to still stay on the desk but have enough cooling power for a heavy Ocd quad core and a powerful GPU.
I wish there was a standard between ITX and Micro ATX. I want options for 1-3 PCI slots and up to 4 sticks of ram in a compact package.
As for the board it leaves me wanting something better. :banana::banana::banana::banana: wifi give me dual gigabit I pray all those sata slots are high speed. Still only 4 at least give me 6 like the other itx boards. It would be cool to see all the extra junk like some crappy DAC that they try to make me think is great stuff that I will actually use instead, especially with limited space.
I was really looking forward to this coming out, but it's kind of left me lukewarm. I use an external DAC, so I don't need the sound riser. I was looking forward to having 6 high-speed sata ports, but we only get 4 of them here. Only two ram slots, which hampers my ambitions of playing with a RAM drive. And of course, Haswell's LOVELY overclocking results to round it all off. Still, have to give Asus props for introducing it. mITX needs to shed the notion that it's only for HTPC's and budget builds, and it's getting more and more rare that systems actually need all the real estate offered by ATX.
So I guess it'll be the Gene-Z if I go for a new system this time around. By high-end board standards, they've had a bizarrely good price/features ratio the last few generations.
It baffles me when people scoff at the amount of Options an ITX board comes with. Consider the space, and then consider the features. In my opinion the features are way bigger than the actual board is. How would 4 ram slots even fit on an ITX board?
Just go wider for E-ITX?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace123
-PB
SODIMM slots. Really as good/cheap as laptop memory has gotten there's no reason for them NOT to use it on an ITX board.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace123
Actually, G.Skill 8GB DDR3 PC3 10666 CL9 SODIMM and full size DIMM are the exact same price right now on Newegg.
Last I checked, there's a pretty big gap between the speeds of top end DIMMS vs top end SO-DIMMS. Personally, I'd rather have 2 full DIMM slots.
--Matt
Anything over 1600MHz generally has negligible affect on performance. They definitely sell 1600MHz SODIMMs.Quote:
Originally Posted by mattkosem
the standards are there with DTX, Flex-ATX and Mini-DTX but apart from some OEMs and IPC models they see no use.Quote:
Originally Posted by zeroibis
That, plus who said anyone has to run them at stock speeds? this is XS after all...Quote:
Originally Posted by lowfat
It all depends on the applications you're running. You can't make that statement across the board.Quote:
Originally Posted by lowfat
Just you so far. I certainly prefer starting with 2000+ modules over 1600 though. There's little to no chance of SO-DIMMs reaching the heights of enthusiast DIMMS.Quote:
Originally Posted by naokaji
--Matt
I disagree strongly and forcefullyQuote:
Originally Posted by lowfat
Holy smokes, click the link and bask in the glory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...irtualParent=1
http://www.provantage.com/kingston-t...ource=googleps
Yeah, they're pretty high speed SO-DIMMs. These DIMMs that are clocked 40% higher seem to have a leg up from where I'm sitting, albeit at quite a bit higher cost.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231687
The prices do get quite a bit better a few steps down though.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233355
Bottom line. There's no competition between enthusiast DIMMs and enthusiast SO-DIMMs at this time. If that changes, game on!
--Matt
I see a lot of armchair racers, erm, benchers here. Talking a lot of smack that I'm not seeing backed up by any fact. How abouts some folks here actually do some SODIMM testing? Let's try to get some records, or prehaps a friendly wager? ;)
Keep in mind, you can probably OC the piss out of the DDR3 1600MHz sticks yet not as much as full size sticks. But keep in mind it would be a MINI-ITX BOARD!!!! Anyway, guess the point is moot as the only boards with SODIMM slots are Jetway motherboards (meh). But I still think if ASRock or someone stepped up to make a Mini-ITX SODIMM board it would be awesome for sure.
Actually the more discussion goes on, the more hyped I am for this board to come out.
Im not in the pro league but I sure dont feel like an armchair overclocker either....
http://hwbot.org/user/ace123/
Exactly anyone that actually cares about sound is going to be using an external DAC so all the hype over internal crap is just a waste of space, space that could have been used for a second Ethernet port, more slots or more sata ports.Quote:
Originally Posted by MpG
I realized that this board has a minipice port for the wifi and thus you can replace it with something else like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833328027
And have a second Ethernet port!
Let's think about that one for a moment. You want to replace the mPCIe card with an ethernet card that requires a bracket to go in the (often single, sometimes dual) PCIe slot instead of a GPU? Now, I may be wrong, but most of the people that buy this level of mITX board will probably want to run an enthusiast GPU, no? The biggest mITX-designed cases have two PCIe slots. I suppose I'm confused why you would consider giving up a precious PCIe slot for a second ethernet port. If running a discrete GPU isn't on the menu, it would seem wiser to go with a cheaper mITX board and just use a PCIe ethernet card.
Maybe he has one of those cases that has that third slot like off in the middle of nowhere like my storm Stryker has
It doesn't require the bracket, you can unscrew the Ethernet module from the PCI bracket and do some Dremel magic to the case to make a hole for the ethernet port.Quote:
Originally Posted by hokiealumnus
Ok, that makes sense, as does the extra bracket hole (neat feature to include; kudos to CM). Thanks for clearing that up guys. :)
Caselabs s3 has 3 and nothing forces me to put the port in a pci slot.Quote:
Originally Posted by hokiealumnus
The real question is if it is possible to use this card with the integrated one to get 2GB/s or if after it is all done I will just end up with two separate 1GB/s lines.