It would be great for a "mobile workstation", but it seems like its technologically impossible... now. Will we see one, if ever?
There's no point because half the point in having x99 is the extra PCIe lanes, and you can only have 1 in a Mini ITX case. That's why there's always so many USB ports on Mini ITX systems vs regular high end z97 boards, it's because they have so many spare lanes that they can't use as actual PCIe x16 x8 etc because of the board size, so they shove it all out the back in USBs.
You want your board to melt within hours? Because that's how your board melt in hours!
Serious though, why would you even want X99 when it only has 1 PCIe and you can save so much more by just getting a Z97 ones.
A more reasonable offering would be a micro-atx x99 board, especially if they did something equally insane as C2750D4I but in micro-atx, think 8 Ram slots. Asrock already has a micro-atx board for x99.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-x99-x99m-killer,27463.html
**EDIT** Unfortunately they went full retard, and one of the two nics is a killer nic, so I guess no peering (running nics in a dual aggregate mode for 2Gbps), still I suppose you could make a pretty capable portable server out of it *EDIT**
X99 socket is simply too big voor mini-itx.
Evga has a board.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188161&FM=1
the only real limitation for is the lack of demand and the amount of money people would be willing to pay for it, cramming that much stuff in a small space takes a lot of research and technological advancements
but is possible
As already said, Buying a MINI-ITX board for X99 is stupid. It's like buying a luxury car, stripping out the interior and all the features, and turning it into a drag car. You can probably do it, but why?
yeah if they could figure out something like an addin slot for the cpu, and then put the socket on a daughter board or something.
like the old pentium 2/3 days lol.
so you're saying it's useless to have a 14C/28T machine 32GB of quad DDR4L Ram? small enough to mount on the back of your monitor in your office you Render video in?
not even that, the real limitation is the demand
Yes, Because it is impossible with the sheer engineering it would require. Board makers won't invest that much energy, time and money into a completely niche market that isn't going to provide the experience intended by Intel when they created the platform.
The intent of Intel enthusiast platforms was to provide lots of RAM, lots of cores, and lots of PCI-E lanes. Mini-ITX can't offer most of those things.
Its not like we are stuffing an 8 core Atom on this small of a board, we are talking about a tremendous amount more power, the inability to fit more than 4 DIMMs (even 4 would be a challenge, due to the VRM solution), a limit of 1 PCI-E slot and ALOT OF FRIGGEN HEAT in something that small. Good luck.
And you know, you can simply put the box on the desk.
Never saw that one. Fingers crossed that it'll come in my country.
Also, the PCI lanes were a bit cramped. Oh well, it's mini-ITX. Some things you won't have...
Micro-ATX*
+1 Or you could just get a Trash can I mean Apple
I mean it would be really cool to see a mini itx socket 2011-3 board but the demand is almost nonexistent. Something with 4 DDR4L slots (not that the laptop DDR4 is even available yet xD) and probably an Asus impact style daughter board for audio and vrms. It would be amazing and a true engineering masterpiece but who'll fund the research necessary to accomplish it? The customer base just isn't there to make putting the money in financially smart or at least reasonable for someone like Asus, Msi or Evga. Cool? Oh hell yeah. But necessary or smart for a workstation build? For a couple select people maybe. But for an amount of people that makes it a good investment for a company, something they could recoup fast and profit off? Sadly, no.