Z77 tower to ITX?

It seems that Z77 boards are drying up quickly. I am considering moving my main desktop rig to a mini-itx HTPC / living room gaming system.

It currently consists of a i7-3770k, Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 and an AMD 7950 boost.

I wanted to move to ITX, with a corsair 250D (after reading the review on HardOCP).

Should I sell my current motherboard and processor and get a Haswell i5 and Z87 board? Other than an Asus board at Newegg, a number of the premium Z77 ITX boards are now gone.

Thanks,

Chris

Z87 is just the better way to go if you are thinking of moving to itx.

Z77 had some decent mini itx boards. Naturally they're harder to find now, since it is a dead chipset. Just stick with your current cpu, and search for one of these.
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-P8Z77DX
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-Z77EITX

The MSI Z77IA-E53 is another solid one (have one in my prodigy build), but it seems to be oos everywhere.

I have had decent success with the z77 itx stinger from EVGA, which was on sale today at tigerdirect for 55$ iirc

looks like I just missed the deal at TD.

I went ATX + Z77 to MITX + Z87. My brother went ATX + Z77 to MITX + Z77. I ended up spending about $200 ish more while my brother spent around $100 after everything. Honestly the differences between are setups are barely noticeable.

That's my thinking as well. I was looking at the boards and am just going to get a Z77 part. They are in short supply so i will either get that one at Newegg or grab one on ebay.

I don't need wireless 802.11AC, but can replace the mini pcie with an intell 802.11AC adapter for $30.