http://www.tweaktown.com We just posted about our video hands-on
coverage of three upcoming ASUS Z77 boards including the P8Z77-V
Deluxe, Maximus V Gene ROG and Sabertooth and now we have yet
another ASUS Ivy Bridge motherboard to tell you about it. It's
tiny, but definitely not a small deal. The tiny item we are talking
about is the ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe which is a Mini-ITX based
motherboard based on the upcoming Intel Z77 Express Ivy Bridge
platform. It's small in size, but not in features - that's for
sure. Starting off ASUS has created what we think is a super
intelligent design by creating a separate daughter board which
houses the Digi+ VRM (the power stuff) for this ITX platform
instead of squeezing it onto the motherboard and sacrificing the
inclusion of other features on the board. Actually, they probably
wouldn't have been able to fit the digital VRM stuff on the board
itself as it features a 10 phase CPU power setup, which is simply
amazing amount of power to be given to a motherboard of this
miniature size. What this all means is that instead of expecting
mediocre performance as with most Mini-ITX based motherboards, you
get a similar type of experience as you would on even a full sized
ATX motherboard in terms of overclocking and gaming performance. We
are really looking forward to putting this motherboard into a new
SilverStone case and building a small gaming system around it, it
should be a lot of fun. It includes a single PCI Express x16 3.0
slot as well as two DDR3 DIMM slots for dual channel memory support
as well as a full 8-pin CPU power connector to supply enough juice
even when overclocking. It also comes with dual-band wireless
onboard along with the other things you'd expect from the Ivy
Bridge platform such as USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0. On the I/O panel you
have a bunch of USB ports, HDMI and DisplayPort connectivity
options, dual-link DVI, gigabit LAN, clear CMOS buttons and so on.
We think this will end up being a big seller for ASUS