ASRock's Micro-STX Motherboard is Giving me a case of the Goose-Pimples

AnanTech link here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11052/asrock-shows-deskmini-gtxrx-using-microstx-motherboard-with-mxm-support

It shows a very small "5x5 inches" (Though it's definitely not, its more like 5"x7" or similar)
This motherboard uses Laptop parts other than the CPU like SODIMMs for RAM, MXM graphics cards and HOLY M.2!!

This makes me very excited to finally be able to put powerful hardware in my SNES PC and take it to LAN Parties, like how cool would that be to whip out a SuperNintendo during a LAN and have over 60FPS in Battlefield 1 on High to ultra detail.

Unfortunately for now there is no set price or release date, but my fingers and toes are crossed that it come to the market and doesn't get left on the cutting room floor.

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AsRock is kicking asses with this micro boards full of features.
There are no PSU connections on the board (not even for a pico PSU) so I guess it will have an external power brick but how much powerful will be an external PSU to handle a desktop CPU and GPU? Also the MXM GPUs are not common so buy one will be expensive as f****. Maybe somewhere in China they make a conversion from MXM to full lenght PCIe.

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A better run down is on the original site: https://smallformfactor.net/news/asrock-z270m-stx-mxm-pictured Way more photos including of the PSU and case.

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Looks like you can get a kit with either an Nvidia 1060 or an RX460/70/80 https://smallformfactor.net/news/asrock-reveals-deskmini-rx-gtx
Noice

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Check this out. MXM to PCI-e x16 extension - Project complete! Some kinks to iron out...

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No 8+2 power phase. In the bin it goes

Oh cool. I wonder what it looks like out of the case but with the card, bare bones. This could be a contender for my ultra portable idea, it is certainly capable of being more powerful than the 6770hq but I winder about the rest of the options.

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