Followers of EVGA media man Jacob Freeman may have noticed something rather interesting from his Twitter feed and the EVGA Facebook page recently. If small is the size of the future, then EVGA are gearing up to release a mini-ITX sized Z77 board, something of a departure from the norm for the extreme-focused enthusiast motherboard manufacturer.
Details are sparse, but EVGA state that this board will still have 'overclockers' features (see the gallery for an LN2 pot strapped to the board), but also contain the following:
- 6 USB 3.0
- 2 SATA 6 Gbps
- HDMI and mini-DisplayPort Output
- Bluetooth
- Clear CMOS onboard
- Mini PCIe
No word on release date or pricing just yet. Here at AnandTech we are planning a mini-ITX review soon of several boards, and hopefully we will be able to add this to the roundup.
Gallery: EVGA Tease mini-ITX sized Z77
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Board layout by HaydenOscar on Friday, July 20, 2012
So glad to see another board with the motherboard chipset between the PCIe slot and the CPU socket! It's so much more logical and yet ASUS have the only other board with this layout that I'm aware of.
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RE: Board layout by coolhund on Friday, July 20, 2012
And a mistake too:
Just like Asus and Asrock, they turned the ATX power connector by 180 degrees while not even having enough space to the DIMM slots. Lots of issues with pico PSUs and very small ITX cases ensure.
Just like Asus and Asrock, they turned the ATX power connector by 180 degrees while not even having enough space to the DIMM slots. Lots of issues with pico PSUs and very small ITX cases ensure.
RE: Board layout by xdrol on Friday, July 20, 2012
I understand it is better layout if you got big-a** coolers, but it's not really "logical"..
The PCIe host is in the CPU here, so you need to wire them around the chipset, what is for sure not a trivial task - remember the chipset also needs gazillion of connections, and judging on the layout, they need to cross the PCIe's wires here - to do so, you need more PCB layers, that means lot more expensive manufacturing - what is probably OK with a "premium" board (question is, what is the demand for premium ITX boards), but definitely not cool with a cheaper one.
The PCIe host is in the CPU here, so you need to wire them around the chipset, what is for sure not a trivial task - remember the chipset also needs gazillion of connections, and judging on the layout, they need to cross the PCIe's wires here - to do so, you need more PCB layers, that means lot more expensive manufacturing - what is probably OK with a "premium" board (question is, what is the demand for premium ITX boards), but definitely not cool with a cheaper one.
Most of the power for the CPU comes from the other connector which is in the top-left side corner, near the I/O ... so absolutely no problem with the placement of the ATX connector.
Combine that with... by HisDivineOrder on Friday, July 20, 2012
...a mini-sized nVidia Geforce 670 built around the reference/launch mini-board with a cooler that matches its size.
Gaming consoles, eat your heart out.
Gaming consoles, eat your heart out.
Blurry pictures? by Conficio on Friday, July 20, 2012
Why are the pictures so blurry?
RE: Blurry pictures? by Andy Stone on Friday, July 20, 2012
This seems to be a general problem for product photos on AnandTech. They should be taken with a small aperture + tripod, not large aperture + hand held. Seriously only few square inches on that board is in focus on all of the photos combined!
RE: Blurry pictures? by Ian Cutress on Friday, July 20, 2012
If you had not gathered, these images are those from EVGA as a board teaser, hence why parts of them are out of focus. They have not released the specifications or formally announced PR of the product, just a small amount of info from their Product Manager.
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RE: Blurry pictures? by Silenus on Friday, July 20, 2012
I don't think that's it at all. It just looks like the usual thin depth of field from shooting with a large sensor camera and being close and/or wide aperture.
With a modern DSLR it's really easy to sharp product shots with lots more depth of field.
1) Use flash (off camera or bounced on camera)
2) Stop down to F/8 - F/11
3) Shoot "wider" and crop it later. In other words...back up/zoom out (but not too far to the wide angle range) frame the product loosely. Then just crop it later to a tighter framing.
There plenty of resolution there to crop a lot for web images.
Result. Sharp detailed shots with plenty of depth of field on the product.Or at least lots more than shown here!
With a modern DSLR it's really easy to sharp product shots with lots more depth of field.
1) Use flash (off camera or bounced on camera)
2) Stop down to F/8 - F/11
3) Shoot "wider" and crop it later. In other words...back up/zoom out (but not too far to the wide angle range) frame the product loosely. Then just crop it later to a tighter framing.
There plenty of resolution there to crop a lot for web images.
Result. Sharp detailed shots with plenty of depth of field on the product.Or at least lots more than shown here!
RE: Blurry pictures? by Tegeril on Sunday, July 22, 2012
Regardless, the photos were not taken by Anandtech.
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