Thin Mini ITX Motherboard with M.2 slot

[Brian McG]

Does anyone know of one, or would I be better to wait? The only one I can find is a full Mini ITX Motherboard from ASUS.

 

[MasterDell]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z97eitxac
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-h97iplus
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-maximusviimpact
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-maximusviiimpact
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97iplus

Only ones that exist. And all of them are really solid choices for a mITX board.

 

[Brian McG]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z97eitxac
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-h97iplus
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-maximusviimpact
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-maximusviiimpact
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97iplus

Only ones that exist. And all of them are really solid choices for a mITX board.

 

[Brian McG]

Yes, that's what I thought. They are all ASUS and all full height ITX motherboards. I'm wanting to build something really thin, so I might just have to wait a little.

 

[MasterDell]

Yes, that's what I thought. They are all ASUS and all full height ITX motherboards. I'm wanting to build something really thin, so I might just have to wait a little.

There is the one ASRock there. And it's not like ASUS is bad 😛

And no think mITX boards exist with a m.2 slot.

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#f=17&qq=1

 

[Brian McG]

For the time being, at least, I've given up trying to build my machine based on a THIN mini-ITX board, as there are none available with an M.2 slot. So I'm going with a Mini-ITX board. The one I like is the Asus Maximus VII Impact. It has both an M.2 slot and RAMDisk.

The M.2 Slot will enable me to use a 128GB Samsung XP941 which is 4x faster than existing SSD's. It will enable me to load the whole of an SQL Server Database into main memory in a matter of minutes. RAMDisk will enable me to keep it in RAM until the application closes. For as fast as the XP941 is, it is still 20x slower than RAM.

Since SQL Server automatically makes use of hyper threading, I'll use an i7 with 16GB of RAM to allow for Database growth

 

[MasterDell]

...How about a Xeon?

 

[eltouristo]

old thread but I think Gigabyte has a good one now :
M.2 connector on the back of the MB !
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5529#ov

 

[Brian McG]

old thread but I think Gigabyte has a good one now :
M.2 connector on the back of the MB !
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5529#ov

Thanks for bringing this motherboard to my attention. Looks like I can go thin after all.