
An MATX Skylake motherboard, well it looks like ASUS have you covered with the Maximus VIII Impact.
Asus ROG Maximus VIII Impact
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The only issue I have with small hardware (after recently building an ITX based pocket rig) is the prices. Surely less should not equal more.
The last one of these was £200 or more, a complete con. Surely using half the materials and a sixth of the slots costs less to make?
The fact there is less is only true to an extent. Increasing the density of anything increases the cost significantly and that is essentially what all tech progression is based on. It's no surprise smaller products which can achieve the same results are more expensive, people will pay a premium for that. The amount of features on an Impact is insane and they really need to be. If your trying to make something genuinely small and portable and there is only one expansion slot everything else needs to be on the board itself, audio, networking, storage and the obvious power delivery. Then even things you don't think about at first like fan controllers. You can't really appreciate how much stuff the Impact has on it until you've done a mad build with one and afterall ROG is ASUS' flagship so you wouldn't expect compromises in any of these areas.
You have to consider them as a package. It's like buying an epic overclocking mATX board, and a sound card, and a fan controller, and some form of network adapter then having all of that packaged into a single piece a fraction of the size. I agree it isn't worth it for everyone, if you aren't going to appreciate everything it does then it is very expensive however it definitely isn't a con.
JR
Yes, it's quite difficult to design but then what motherboard isn't?
The only issue I have with small hardware (after recently building an ITX based pocket rig) is the prices. Surely less should not equal more.
The last one of these was £200 or more, a complete con. Surely using half the materials and a sixth of the slots costs less to make?
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An MATX Skylake motherboard, well it looks like ASUS have you covered with the Maximus VIII Impact.
Asus ROG Maximus VIII Impact