Mini ITX up coming motherboards - What are they?

[dariusz72]

Hello,

Does anyone know of any Mini ITX motherboards which will be released in the near future to keep an eye out for.

I understand Intel's Sandy Bridge will be out soon, which I presume new boards will be based on.

I also presume that AMD may have a product which may compete against Intel's Sandy Bridge, but I have not heard of any news on such a product.

If you know of any up coming Mni ITX boards, could you please provide a link, and possibly explain the benefit of the board?

I would like to find a board which will have great graphics performance without the need to add a graphics card - ie. Able to insert a CPU with built in GPU or the board may have a integrated GPU chip.

I understand the fastest graphic performer based on current available chipset (Intell based - Arrandale) is the intel i5-661. With Sandy Bridge comming out, I understand the GPU's will me much faster.

I look forward to your replies.

D

 

[mbreslin1954]

Helo,

Does anyone know of any Mini ITX motherboards which will be released in the near future to keep an eye out for.

I understand Intel's Sand Bridge will be out soon, which I presume new boards will be based on.

I also presume that AMD may have a product which may compete against Intel's Sand Bridge, but I have not heard of any news on such a product.

If you know of any up coming Mni ITX boards, could you please provide a link, and possibly explain the benefit of the board?

I would like to find a board which will have great graphics performance without the need to add a graphics card - ie. Able to insert a CPU with built in GPU or the board may have a integrated GPU chip.

I understand the fastest graphic performer based on current available chipset (Intell based - Arrandale) is the intel i5-661. With Sand Bridge comming out, I understand the GPU's will me much faster.

I look forward to your replies.

D

I believe it's "Sandy Bridge", not "Sand Bridge".

 

[dariusz72]

mbreslin1954, Thanks. Correction made. D

 

[doive1231]

I too am looking forward to some new mini-ITX motherboards as the days of me carrying round a suitcase sized case must surely be coming to an end. I have seen previews of both ASUS and Gigabyte's Sandy Bridge initial offerings but without a mini-ITX solution. I believe the future is smaller mobos and I hope there will be a board as good as Gigabyte's H55N-USB3.

I do believe the new Sandy Bridge chips will have much better graphics capabilities. Good enough for current games? I don't know, but hopefully OK for the casual gamer, and for enthusiasts, there may be some squeezing of cards into very small spaces.

 

[doive1231]

Here's an Intel offering.

http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=6204

 

[doive1231]

More news.

http://ixbtlabs.com/news.html?13/77/13

 

[fisher3491]

ASUS is one of the first to release details on its new Sandy Bridge mini-ITX motherboard. It's the P8H67-I. There is a write up on it here with some of the specs:

http://www.itxgamer.com/motherboards/asus-mini-itx-p8h67-i/

The Sandy Bridge processor will handle your graphics issue too. The i5 version has integrated graphics that are on par with a Radeon HD 5450.

Here: http://www.itxgamer.com/news/sandy-bridge-what-it-means-for-itx-gaming/

and here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3871/the-sandy-bridge-preview-three-wins-in-a-row/7