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Intel showcases a new MB form factor

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http://semiaccurate.com/2015/01/09/intel-finally-makes-socketed-sub-itx-motherboard/

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"It will support up to 16GB of DDR3L, an M.2 SSD and 2.5″ HD, 4x USB 3.0 2x HDMI, GbE, audio, and Wi-Fi"

This seems interesting. It's the smallest socketed motherboard as far as I know. SA say that it will only support a 45W CPU, but for the likely target market this will be fine. Furthermore this will probably sit in a fairly small case, so a lower watt cpu will probably be better.

Obviously no PCIe (yet!), but still good to see that Intel are pushing form factors smaller than ITX.
 
At only 5.5 x 5.5", this will nicely fill the gap between the 3.9 x 3.9" NUC and the 6.7 x 6.7" ITX boards. With the right chassis and cooling, you could build a tiny monster NUC with a CPU 3x the TDP :eek:

Just noticed.. Intel also announced a 23W i7 NUC is incoming!
 
I love the stacked mPCIe/mSATA slots Intel is recently doing. I'd want that on a few mITX boards, too.

The form factor seems nice for certain applications, especially consumer builds that already rely on nothing but mITX or even thin-mITX, but I'm curious as to what the standard will define.

Will the position of the front ports be defined? What about the position of the CPU socket? How will the final mounting of the CPU cooler look? What about the back I/O, will it always be this small or is it supposed to fill the entire back of the board?

So, interesting concept, but we'll have to see about the final standard to evaluate whether it is actually useful or not.
 
I personally think AMD should move to itx builds more, especially for their FX series.
 
This would make a nice little power house NAS (w/ Plex transcoding, ect), if only it had a PCIe for an HBA card.
 
Excellent formfactor for office computers that doesn't need a graphics card (customer service, etc). I'm really excited about it.
 
Really interesting! I can't believe this mobo does not have an embeded cpu on it!
Btw, it has some front I/O already soldered to it. It makes the boad look awkward lol.
 
I don't think this will be used in laptops, TBH. The socket itself is so thick itself already, the laptop base will be 3cm thick and it won't have a mobile processor on it, but a desktop one that will suck your battery dry in a few hours.

But yeah, small boxes mounted behind a screen, I can see that work.
 
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