I've been planning a Coffee Lake build for a while now and October 5th is right around the corner. However, I cannot seem to find information pertinent to exactly which motherboards will be available on the mini itx platform on the day that Coffee Lake is released. I know the regular Asrock z370 itx board has been announced, and I saw an Asus ROG Strix z370i was announced as well. Will those be available when the 8th Gen CPU drops? Or will there be a disjointed release, where the CPU becomes available but compatible motherboards do not become available for a while after? Anxious to get started, I already have my case and will most likely be ordering everything else unrelated to CPU and motherboard this week.
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Which m-itx mobos will be available for Coffee Lake on release day?
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The MSI Z370I seems to be the best one in my eyes.
They are usually on sale from day 1.
They are usually on sale from day 1.
OK awesome! Sounds great. Thanks.
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Well I came to start contributing more, so I don't get banned for only using FS/T for the past few years..... -___- I'm not very talkative, I just read most of the time.
I was going to start this exact same thread, thanks for taking care of it ^_^
I plan on picking up a i7-8700k.. I will be keeping my gigabyte GTX 970 itx for another 6-ish months until I find an upgrade at a reasonable cost in ITX form factor.
So We have
ASRock (trash imo... had 100% failure rate on 3 brand new boards over the years.. longest one lasting 3 years)
MSI Z370I
Asus ROG Strix z370i
That's it?!?!!
I was going to start this exact same thread, thanks for taking care of it ^_^
I plan on picking up a i7-8700k.. I will be keeping my gigabyte GTX 970 itx for another 6-ish months until I find an upgrade at a reasonable cost in ITX form factor.
So We have
ASRock (trash imo... had 100% failure rate on 3 brand new boards over the years.. longest one lasting 3 years)
MSI Z370I
Asus ROG Strix z370i
That's it?!?!!
I hear you, mate! I actually got banned after literally 2 posts. I did not know you couldn't trade with under 100 posts and I tried to buy an itx case. I was instantly incinerated by the mods. Only got back by begging. I like this forum a lot so glad it worked out.
Yes those are the only three itx boards I'm aware of. Thing is, when will they be available? I guess we'll possibly find out tomorrow, when 8th gen is released? I was hoping to be able to order the cpu and board simultaneously... I guess we'll see.
Cheers.
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Hopefully tomorrow! I am pretty damn excited to downsize to ITX. Also I'm going to be upgrading from a 4670k so I'm hoping the improvement is going to be huge, even with the same GPU.
Let's reconvene tomorrow on here and share what we've found out.
I stayed up until I thought everything would go up (CPU, chipset), and although the motherboards became available, it looks like there was a giant screwup with the CPU's and they got sold out yesterday by mistake at Newegg! How unfair is that... Bummer.
Anyway though, I was able to snag an Asus Rog Strix z370-I which is pretty cool! I was totally on the fence about what to get, either the Asrock Fatal1ty itx, the MSI z370-I, or the Asus Rog Strix z370-I. In the end, I know the Asrock would've had the most USB connectivity which is good for my music/audio setup, but I have heard terrible things about Asrock's quality control (many reports of multiple failures for individual customers) and I don't know anything about MSI... Asus has a good quality reputation and I was very excited by the dual NVME M.2 slots, which is a feature the others don't have AFAIK.
Here is the link if you want to snag one too: https://www.amazon.com/Z370-I-mini-...d=1507200056&sr=8-1&keywords=rog+strix+z370-i
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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...n=z370+motherboard&ignorear=0&N=-1&isNodeId=1
The Asus Tuf looks nice but no armored version from what I seen like the Yellow black caution accents. Plus they took away a few IO ports in the back of it.
The Asus Tuf looks nice but no armored version from what I seen like the Yellow black caution accents. Plus they took away a few IO ports in the back of it.
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Ah, what a bummer. I didn't plan on buying my CPU until the 13th. I'm also hoping Microcenter will have the ITX boards (hopefully not just ASRock) in stock along with the CPUs and offer a bundle price. Looks like I'll be going with the ASUS board, but if MSI has one for less money I'll be grabbing that one. I've had the best luck with MSI out of any other manufacturer - but that ASUS board looks SWEET!
What case are you guys using? I need to get one that supports a full size PSU.
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Gigabyte now has a GTX 1080 ITX GPU...
A NCASE M1 chassis (my favorite SFF / ITX chassis) will fit an ATX PSU, but you would have to stick with an ITX-sized GPU for that, which is why I mention the Gigabyte GTX 1080 ITX GPU...
Well, looks like we'll be waiting a while for the chips either way. Kinda annoying. Why have an official US release date if you're gonna mistakenly sell out the day before and give all the stock away to the UK Newegg before it even goes on sale here? There is an 8700k on Ebay right now for $1,000, lol.
Re: your case question ~ I am using the Ncase M1. That's why I needed itx mobo. I chose Corsair SF600 for PSU, it's small SFX sized. I am going with EVGA 1080 ti SC2 for GPU and plan to delid & overclock the CPU. I am hoping the 600W PSU will be enough juice for this setup with the 8700k. Everyone online seemed to think it wlild be fine and I've seen plenty of builds using 7700k overclocked and a 1080 ti with this same PSU; so it should be ok.
NCase M1 is sweet, I have it here already. Great size. You could always go with that case and upgrade to SFX PSU.
Fatality itx won't be at launch but since z370 really didn't change most boards are just minor tweaks to the previous designs so should be sooner than last time. It is still the only TB3 option this go around, don't know if x2 like last time or x4.
Went Core V1 for itx builds and never looking back. Yeah its a little bigger than some of these customcram9000™ boxes were people are compulsively obsessed with every cubic mm but in practical use it is plenty small, good and cheap. (you can spend more just putting all noctua fans in it)
So easy to build, no SFF psu bullshit, fits all but the crazy tall or 3 slot gpus, up to 140mm tall coolers or one fan slot AIO/CLC if that is your poison (nothx), lots of ventilation and easy cable routing. Various interesting ways to mod it if you want. Drive placement is a bit funky though serviceable but I also went big fat m2 drive for everything and never looking back there either, all my spinning rust lives in NASes only now.
Went Core V1 for itx builds and never looking back. Yeah its a little bigger than some of these customcram9000™ boxes were people are compulsively obsessed with every cubic mm but in practical use it is plenty small, good and cheap. (you can spend more just putting all noctua fans in it)
So easy to build, no SFF psu bullshit, fits all but the crazy tall or 3 slot gpus, up to 140mm tall coolers or one fan slot AIO/CLC if that is your poison (nothx), lots of ventilation and easy cable routing. Various interesting ways to mod it if you want. Drive placement is a bit funky though serviceable but I also went big fat m2 drive for everything and never looking back there either, all my spinning rust lives in NASes only now.
Showed up in newegg listing, not sure if it has actually been in stock yet though:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157794
Of course no close up pictures out there either, otherwise could see which version of the thunderbolt chip was used and how many lanes.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157794
Of course no close up pictures out there either, otherwise could see which version of the thunderbolt chip was used and how many lanes.
Ah sweet, thanks for the headsup! That's good to know. I might end up putting together a very tiny extra computer system just for audio recording with one of these Thunderbolt-ready mobos depending on which chip they used in there. Cheers.
Actually Asrock has been pretty good, we at our shop use them alot and the failure rates are lower than MSI!
If our build is meant to be overclocked our suggestion would be Asrock and most customers are pretty happy after trying them for the first time.
I got around to partially building mine (paper launch and all that) and took a look at the TB chip, its the 6240 again so only x2.
Not so great for egpu (which makes no sense for ITX desktops, just go buy the skull nuc or the proper laptop) but plenty of bandwidth for simple 10Gbps p2p networking and hooking up a portable NVMe SSD. DMI link will be shared for any drive copying regardless.
I also can borrow some apple peripherals to abuse from time to time, wouldn't be caught dead spending my own $ on them though.
Not so great for egpu (which makes no sense for ITX desktops, just go buy the skull nuc or the proper laptop) but plenty of bandwidth for simple 10Gbps p2p networking and hooking up a portable NVMe SSD. DMI link will be shared for any drive copying regardless.
I also can borrow some apple peripherals to abuse from time to time, wouldn't be caught dead spending my own $ on them though.
Thanks for your good info! I will continue to look into this. It might end up being good to switch to a TB mboo for my purposes but... For now I'm trying to stick with USB soundcards. Just more compatibility. I like the Lynx Aurora new revision which has removable and adjustable peripheral connections. Smart move on their part!