Soooooo hi guys,
I've been thinking and I came to the conclusion that the Maximus line needs a miniDTX motherboard. I've been seeing a lot of SFF gaming pc builds but most of them use some crappy miniITX H67 motherboard. I think that the ROG design team at Asus can make something way more awesome, like a miniDTX Z68 motherboard. I included a picture I made with GIMP but it still looks like a cows behind, and please ignore the I/O, I didn't change it from the underlaying Zotac NM10-B-E.
The downside of miniDTX is that it's waaay smaller than mATX, which means there'd have to be some compromises, like fewer MOSFET's, only two DDR3 slots and a really well thought out pcb layout.
If you look at the picture, I imagined the MOSFET's under the heatsinks to the left of the socket and the chipset between the PCIe slots and the socket. And maybe some ROG-buttons above the ram slots.
The features I'd like to keep are the Virtu, iROG, and things like dual BIOS.
Is there anyone here that's with me on this idea or is this really far-fetched and almost impossible. I'd like to hear all your thoughts on this.
Edit: I forgot to say, but you may have noticed it in the title, that this is an idea for the new Ivy Bridge line of motherboards. I think it would be a good product since A LOT of people are building SFF gaming pc's and HTPC's these days
- Thijsiez
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