Asus Reveals ROG Maximus VI Impact Mini-ITX Motherboard
Asus has revealed a proper high-end Mini-ITX board, one that can put even most ATX-size motherboards to shame.
Asus has revealed a new motherboard, the ROG Maximus VI Impact. The name "Impact" certainly applies here, because this is one well-equipped motherboard, even by ATX size standards, let alone Mini-ITX. The Maximus VI Impact is a Mini-ITX motherboard which carries the LGA1150 socket and the Z87 chipset. The CPU is powered through an 8+2 phase VRM design that protrudes the main motherboard in its own little PCB, which in turn gets its power through an 8-pin EPS connector. The rest of the board is powered through a 24-pin ATX connector.
The motherboard's interior connectivity includes two DDR3 memory slots, a single PCIe x16 3.0 slot, four SATA3 slots, front USB 3.0 through a header, and audio connection headers. External I/O connectivity is taken care of by a DisplayPort, an HDMI port, four USB 2.0 ports, another four USB 3.0 ports, an optical SPDIF port, Gbit Ethernet, and three analog 3.5 mm jacks. Furthermore, the rear features POST diagnostic readouts and CMOS reset and restore switches. This has been placed on the rear I/O due to space constraints on the motherboard surface itself.
The sound board on the motherboard is one of the most impressive bits, though. The motherboard features its own daughterboard sound card, which carries an audiophile grade headphone amp, a 120 dB signal-to-noise ratio, a shield over the main audio core, as well as ELNA audio caps. The sound card is also placed above the PCIe x16 slot, meaning that you can still use a graphics card next to it, without sacrificing your sound card. The motherboard also features an mPCIe combo adapter, which takes care of both 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.
The company gave no word on pricing or availability, but let's not expect this little board to come cheap.

Yikes, I didn't see that until I read your comment. They should have flip flopped the SATA ports with the DIMM slots. SATA should be on the outside.
Moving the DIMM slots in would make it impossible to mount the CPU cooler.
But, for AMD?
I think that can make a 5.2" cage with some connectors, to save space on the board, maybe connected by one propietary cable.
What?
The 16x PCIe while great in theory is effectively useless. Any cases made for this size board are as diminutive as possible, adding a 13" full height video card would require a standard ATX power supply, much greater airflow, and a much larger enclosure.
At that point, why would you stick an m-itx board in a m-atx case, just buy an matx board...
What?
I stand corrected they have a few boards but its not a AMD type thing really.
The 16x PCIe while great in theory is effectively useless. Any cases made for this size board are as diminutive as possible, adding a 13" full height video card would require a standard ATX power supply, much greater airflow, and a much larger enclosure.
At that point, why would you stick an m-itx board in a m-atx case, just buy an matx board...
HD7750 LP would work great for that with a low powered Haswell CPU and still game decently on most games.
ROG is high end gaming/overclocking though so I don't see a Kaveri based FM2+ board like this for it considering that currently only ASRock has mITX boards for FM2.
Sorry, no ITX
Moving the DIMM slots in would make it impossible to mount the CPU cooler.
This, and more and more mini-ITX cases are adopting non-traditional mobo positioning to better utilize the space within the case. both the bitfenix prodigy and silverstone's FT03-mini are great examples of these. and in both cases, the harddrives are NOT located to the left of the mobo, thus putting the SATA ports to the left of the DIMM slots would not help with cable routing what so ever.
However I might have switched the SATA port positions with the USB-3.0 header, though considering those thick USB3.0 cables tend to be less flexible than SATA, perhaps ASUS have it right here
Putting on-board audio on a daughtercard is a simple and effective way of completely isolating it from the path of motherboard power/ground plane noise and current loops. Much more difficult to mess up than directly on-board. Ideally, all semi-serious motherboard audio should be like that.
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You probably should say there is no high end AMD itx motherboard for gaming rigs since most of AMD itx MB is aiming for media center type of application. F1A75-I DELUXE. is probably closet one for gaming board.