Hey there. I am sure that there are more of you that are waiting for Mini-ITX boards for the AM4 platform. I wanted to start a thread where people could post news or gossip (if there are any) that you found about Mini-ITX AM4 boards.
Here is only thing that I have come across (and I am sure everyone knows this) The Biostar board ... NOW WITH RACING STRYPES
Anyone else have any news or sweet gossip to share with us that are hopelessly waiting to be able to finish their Ryzen build ??
I will be needing one of these motherboards soon. However I'm wondering if I should wait for VEGA which is going to be CRAZY expensive or sell my 980ti and get a amd580 once its out later this month (or next)?
The catch is with the case I have its only 250mm clearance and typically only good for BLOWER style cards so we will see. I would LOVE to get VEGA sooner but its looking to be taking far too long to arrive and I'd better be careful with budget until end of year when some cash frees up.
As for Biostar x370 itx board, given it can't do sli, having this chipset will only increase the cost and offer no benefits?
As for news, well Asrock will have a b350 itx board out sometime this month.
I'm pretty much all ready for my ITX build, just waiting on motherboard options. I swapped my 980ti for a furyX not long back so that takes care of the 250mm max gpu size issue I had. I MAY get a Vega card but thats going to take a couple months as I will be waiting to see what the benchmarks are like before buying, and only if the price is right (still skeptical on HBM2 pricing).
I will just stay with the stock 1600 cooler and set it to a slightly more aggressive profile then normal. Pretty sure my case can't take a HSF that large due to power supply being in way or something.
I'm still deciding on what to do with memory, buy some cheap 16gb 3200 stuff or shell out for cl14 32gb ddr4 3200... Given that these boards only have 2 ddr4 slots, the options are quite limited.
The thing is that I can't go much smaller with the cooler anyways because of the GPU and if I want to overclock the CPU a little bit, I will need a decent cooler that doesn't make too much noise.