Haswell Z87 SFF motherboard list

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This post is to designed to be a compilation of the high end motherboards that will be arriving with Haswell. I'll try and keep this updated as more details are released.

(With thanks to JamaicanPi for the previous iteration.)

Mini ITX

ASRock Z87E-ITX product page
6-phase VRM (CPU); 6 SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); Realtek ALC1150 audio + Ti NE5532 amp; Intel i217v NIC; Rear panel: 4 x USB 3.0; 2 x USB 2.0; mSata; mPCIe slot (Wi-Fi 802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.0)

Asus Z87I Pro / Deluxe product page Pro product page Deluxe
12+2-phase VRM (CPU); 6 SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); Realtek ALC1150 audio; Intel i217v NIC; 4 fan headers; Rear panel: 4+2 x USB 3.0; 4 x USB 2.0; Wi-Fi GO! (Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth v4.0/3.0+HS)
Deluxe additionally has Wi-Fi 802.11 ac

Asus RoG Maximus VI Impact product page
8+2-phase VRM (CPU); 4 SATA (4 x 6Gb/s); SupremeFX audio + Ti LM4562 amp; Intel i217v NIC; 4 fan headers; Rear panel: 4 x USB 3.0; 4 x USB 2.0; mPCIe/M.2 combo slot (Wi-Fi 802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.0)

EVGA Z87 Stinger product page
4-phase VRM (CPU); 4 SATA (4 x 6Gb/s); Creative Sound Core3D audio; Intel i217 NIC; 3 fan headers; Rear panel: 4 x USB 3.0; 4 x USB 2.0; mSata/mPCIe slot; Bluetooth 2.1; Virtu MVP 2.0

Gigabyte Z87N-WiFi product page
4-phase VRM (CPU); 4 SATA (4 x 6Gb/s); Realtek ALC892 audio; Intel+Atheros NIC; Rear panel: 4 x USB 3.0; 2 x USB 2.0; mPCIe slot (Wi-Fi 802.11bgn + Wi-Di + Bluetooth 4.0)

MSI Z87I product page
4-phase VRM (CPU); 4 SATA (4 x 6Gb/s); Realtek ALC892 audio; 2 x Realtek 8111E NIC; Rear panel: 4 x USB 3.0; 2 x USB 2.0; mPCIe slot (Wi-Fi + Wi-Di + Bluetooth)

MSI Gaming teaser pic
6-phase VRM (CPU); 5 SATA + 1 eSATA (6 x 6Gb/s); Realtek ALC1150 audio; Killer+Intel NIC; Rear panel: 6 x USB 3.0; 4 x USB 2.0; mPCIe slot (Wi-Fi 802.11abgn/ac + Wi-Di + Bluetooth)


See also pictures of CPU mounting positions http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040363673&postcount=227



Micro ATX

Asrock Z87M Extreme 4 product page
#-phase VRM (CPU); 6 SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); PCIe3 x16 / x1 / x8 / x4; Realtek ALC1150 audio; XXX NIC; Rear panel: # x USB 3.0; # x USB 2.0

Asrock Z87M OC Formula product page
#-phase VRM (CPU); 6 SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); PCIe3 x16 / x1 / x8 / x4; Realtek ALC1150 audio; XXX NIC; Rear panel: # x USB 3.0; # x USB 2.0; mPCIe slot; mSATA slot

Asus ROG Maximus VI Gene product page
#-phase VRM (CPU); 8 SATA (8 x 6Gb/s); PCIe3 x16 / - / x16 / x4; SupremeFX audio; Intel NIC; Rear panel: 6 x USB 3.0; 4 x USB 2.0; ?

Asus TUF Gryphon Z87 product page
8-phase VRM (CPU); 6 SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); PCIe3 x16 / x1 / x16 / x16; XXX audio; XXX NIC; Rear panel: # x USB 3.0; # x USB 2.0; ?

Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 product page
#-phase VRM (CPU); # SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); PCIe3 x16 / x1 / x4 / x8; XXX audio; XXX NIC; Rear panel: # x USB 3.0; # x USB 2.0; ?

MSI Gaming Z87M product page
#-phase VRM (CPU); 6 SATA (6 x 6Gb/s); PCIe3 x16 / x1 / x8 / x1; ALC 1150 audio + OPA1652 amp; Killer Gb LAN NIC; Rear panel: 4 x USB 3.0; 6 x USB 2.0;


TBC... comments and corrections welcome.
 
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ASRock will have plenty to choose from, µATX in various flavours: Extreme4, Pro4, and OC! They probably will have a Fatalt1y (they usually do)
http://chinese.vr-zone.com/62057/as...e-extreme-11-9-6-and-z87-oc-formula-05052013/
http://wccftech.com/asrock-z87-motherboards-revealed-z87-fatal1ty-oc-formula-lineup-pictured/

ASUS extend the Sabretooth style to the µATX Gryphon (or Gryphoon) + the usual GENE:
http://wccftech.com/asus-z87-mother...vi-hero-z87-sabertooth-z87-gryphoon-pictured/

No photos yet but Intel have µATX: DH87RL and mini-ITX: DH87FB (obviously these are H87, but that's probably the best Intel will do)
http://wccftech.com/intel-roadmap-slides-leak-haswell-z87-chipset-motherboards/

Gigabyte with new version of µATX Sniper M5 (and an all new UEFI from Gigabyte)
http://wccftech.com/gigabyte-showcases-g1sniper-z87-motherboards-ampup-audio-technology/
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/5...eration-intel-core-feature-preview/index.html
 
Interesting thread to follow, as I'm going to need one of these for the Ncase M1.

The Asus Z87i-Deluxe seems like a decent improvement considering spacing CPU-socket <-> PCI-e and also okay placement of many ports:

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I'm not sure what to make of asus's new color scheme. I liked it better in blue.

Asrock's haswell boards look impressive.
 
tonyftw said:
I'm not sure what to make of asus's new color scheme. I liked it better in blue.
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Photos of the Asus boards seem to have been done with someone's cellphone camera, with auto colour balance tricked by the bright light behind the display panels. It's supposed to be a black/gold theme. I'm reserving my judgement until I see some professional pics.
 
Looks like last year's Z77 boards are this years Z87 boards with an 1150 socket, but they're nice and all.

ASUS did away with the mPCIE slot? Seems strange to have the wireless embedded in the rear i/o section.

Little disappointed that Asrock didn't move/center the CPU socket a bit, but it probably costs a big chunk of money to redesign a board this tight.

Do we have any info on what's availble for input/output on the back, or just what we can see in these top-down shots?

Waiting on DDR4 ITX LGA1150 personally :D
 
Would love to see the improvements to the sniper line and to see if they do a mini itx version.
 
really gotta thank you all for helping compile all this info

my own two cents worth of what I hope to see: more mITX boards with 8 channel audio...
 
crABtoad said:
Looks like last year's Z77 boards are this years Z87 boards with an 1150 socket, but they're nice and all.

ASUS did away with the mPCIE slot? Seems strange to have the wireless embedded in the rear i/o section.

Little disappointed that Asrock didn't move/center the CPU socket a bit, but it probably costs a big chunk of money to redesign a board this tight.

Do we have any info on what's availble for input/output on the back, or just what we can see in these top-down shots?

Waiting on DDR4 ITX LGA1150 personally :D
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The main difference is all sata 3 ports. Most mitx boards will have 6 ports, although at least one only has 4 internal ports.

It also seems there aren't any mitx with msata which is disappointing.

And the socket placement on the Asrock Z87 itx is substaintially different than their Z77 itx. Its more towards the top of the board(placed higher towards the top than the Asus board), rather than close to the PCIe slot. Their Z87 has better socket placement, but still not ideal.
 
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Not sure if we know if there isn't an mSATA slot somewhere on at least one of these boards. If the Z77E-ITX is any indication there will be one on the Z87E-ITX's underside... Which I don't think anyone's seen yet. I could be wrong.
 
Pretty sure that's what all the question marks are for. :D

I'm just hoping that at least one of the mini-ITX ones uses a 6.0Gbps mSATA slot. Intel's -FB variant appears to not include a 3Gbps controller based on the leaks so I'm guessing one of its two mini PCIe slots will meet my criteria, but obviously I don't know that for sure yet.
 
Likewise! I would love to see some mSATA drives competing with the likes of Samsung's 840 Pro in the next year or so.
 
crABtoad said:
Not sure if we know if there isn't an mSATA slot somewhere on at least one of these boards. If the Z77E-ITX is any indication there will be one on the Z87E-ITX's underside... Which I don't think anyone's seen yet. I could be wrong.
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There was no mention of it from CeBit reports. IIRC the early leaks of the Z77 included mention of msata. Its possible it might, but its been in public multiple times already and there has been no mention of it. Same with every other mitx board. Hopefully the Asrock does. It looks to be the most promising even without it.
 
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TIL current Intel chipsets only have 6 native SATA ports. I feel like I should've known this already, but thank you for the heads up.
 
crABtoad said:
Likewise! I would love to see some mSATA drives competing with the likes of Samsung's 840 Pro in the next year or so.
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Not sure if they ever will. We will probably have to wait for NGFF. As I understand it, there isn't physically enough room on mSATA to populate all NAND channels that the higher end controllers have, so performance will always lag somewhat.
 
I'd love to see some higher end audio options on some ITX mobo's. Realtek doesnt cut it for me personally. How about Asus build one with Xonar series chip(s) onboard? I'd pay the extra for the option.
 
_PixelNinja said:
I would have been nice if they made it a ROG themed board, IMO.
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+1 on a ROG theme mini itx. Is it just me why do they have so many color theme changes. If I was ASUS stick with all BLACK along with the chokes being a flat black instead of the chrome kinda of like the Asus Rog Black Edition. I would guarantee the board would sell like crazy.. Just my 2 cents :D

I see that they have 6 x 6Gb/s ports I would assume it will still be maxed out at 1000MB/s? Meaning if I was running 2 x 128GB Samsung Pro 840 in R0 getting (R)1000MB/s and (W)700MB/s adding a third SSD would just max the writes out plus give me more GB of space?
 
Lu(ky said:
+1 on a ROG theme mini itx. Is it just me why do they have so many color theme changes. If I was ASUS stick with all BLACK along with the chokes being a flat black instead of the chrome kinda of like the Asus Rog Black Edition. I would guarantee the board would sell like crazy.. Just my 2 cents :D
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I agree &#8212; ASUS has been making beefy ITX boards with nice bells and whistles. In my opinion it warrants a ROG branding. I'm not a fan of the new black and gold scheme nor their random color changing.
 
You can "+x" as much as you want, Asus won't suddenly recall all finished motherboards to "repaint" them. I think you'll have more success at the RoG forum too.
 
Still no word on whether these mitx will have a msata3 slot in the bottom... :-(
 
grazina said:
It actually looks much better with different lighting.
http://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Z87-ITX-Board.jpg[/i mg][/QUOTE]

LOL..."better" I do not usually take to mean "washed out colors due to camera flash glare". ;)
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CHANG3D said:
Still no word on whether these mitx will have a msata3 slot in the bottom... :-(
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What I wanted was for the m-itx z7 to have the MPCIE Combo 2 this one has on the top left corner, specially since it looks that those usb ports on the m-itx are usb 2.0
ASUS-Maximus-VI-Extreme1-635x762.jpg

I don't understand why they won't release these m-itx as part of the ROG series. Imagine that board but with the color scheme of this micro-atx.
 
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I don't know about this gold path Asus is going down. ECS has already done it, and I'd hate to think Asus is doing anything to follow/copy ECS:

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I'd like to see a ROG ITX board too. Or maybe something like this:

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rwpritchett said:
I don't know about this gold path Asus is going down. ECS has already done it, and I'd hate to think Asus is doing anything to follow/copy ECS:

ecs-z77h2-ax-layout-2.jpg


I'd like to see a ROG ITX board too. Or maybe something like this:

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Somebody at Asus and ECS has been hearing to much Spandau Ballet.
If asus follows the example of the H77/Z77 they release an almost identical board but without that power board, an H87. The z87 should have been a rog with an mpcie slot for ssd caching. and from what I can see there is no e-sata port on the Z87. Kinda weird. I think 6 internal sata ports on a board that size is a little too much.
 
grazina said:
Sorry. I'm expecting the color scheme to be like this one. I like it.
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Sorry to put on the policeman's hat, but could you please resize that photo. 2824×3400 is huge and not friendly for tablets, laptops or normal size monitors. You're in breach of rule 14 anyway:

(14) Do not post MATERIAL where you do not have permission to distribute it electronically or otherwise. This includes posting images directly from a website (Bandwidth Theft) Images are to be hosted personally or by a third party host.
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May I suggest imgur as a very convenient 3rd party image host, the image resizing tools are quick and simple as are the automatically generated tagged image links. You should be able to find an add on for browser integration as well (so you can just right click an image and upload a copy to imgur)
 
geostation said:
waiting to see if ASROCK gets their waterproof mITX board with purity Sound and WIFI AC
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I read about that waterproof stuff and it sounds interesting. But how does that protect the cpu/memory/gpu if the pump lets go at the socket? (say for example AIO cooling)
 
NIVO said:
I read about that waterproof stuff and it sounds interesting. But how does that protect the cpu/memory/gpu if the pump lets go at the socket? (say for example AIO cooling)
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It's not to protect against watercooling accidents, it's against humidity.
 
sgtspiff said:
A little slip from an Asus employee gave us:

There will be a Asus ROG ITX.
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Nice, if they lead the way hopefully the other brands will follow suit. Where did this snippet of info leak from?
 
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