I just saw yesterday that Zotac is coming out with a new mini-ITX to answer the Gigabyte USB3 board that is out:
MaximumPC.com Link
HotHardware.com Link
From Maxumum PC's article:
"Zotac seems to have squeezed everything it could onto a board with limited real estate. Builders will find two DIMM slots with support for up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, six SATA 3.0Gb/s ports, one eSATA port, two USB 3.0 ports, a whopping 10 USB 2.0 ports (six on the back, 4 via pin header), a single PCI-Express 2.0 slot, HDMI and DVI, and other odds and ends.
No word yet on when this will ship or for how much."
I haven't been a big fan of Zotac boards since all the isses with the 9300 ITX wake/sleep etc., but it's cool to see the competition heat up like this in the mini ITX space. If only we could lure ASUS and MSI into the fray with more high end ITX boards... SATA 6GB anyone?
MaximumPC.com Link
HotHardware.com Link
From Maxumum PC's article:
"Zotac seems to have squeezed everything it could onto a board with limited real estate. Builders will find two DIMM slots with support for up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, six SATA 3.0Gb/s ports, one eSATA port, two USB 3.0 ports, a whopping 10 USB 2.0 ports (six on the back, 4 via pin header), a single PCI-Express 2.0 slot, HDMI and DVI, and other odds and ends.
No word yet on when this will ship or for how much."
I haven't been a big fan of Zotac boards since all the isses with the 9300 ITX wake/sleep etc., but it's cool to see the competition heat up like this in the mini ITX space. If only we could lure ASUS and MSI into the fray with more high end ITX boards... SATA 6GB anyone?