Holy crap! Dual M.2 and RGB motherboards for the SFF masses! If the Z270 costs only $180 and is an amazing board. Then the H270 will be a STEAL! 
To be honest, I prefer the design on the H270i over the Z270i. Way too much in the way of unnecessary heatsinks on the Z270. Slightly less cluttered look of the H270 is an improvement IMO. Also makes me feel like there's less obstruction to cooler airflow.
Nice, hope the price will be really lower. Z270 is kinda expensive here in France at around 220 euros.
Well I'm a happy sff builder! I'm literally 2 weeks away from getting the z270 version but this is much more practical and I can save a few bucks! But now I need to reconsider which CPU to get since the 7600k would be pointless...
This is the one we were waiting for! So happy to see that they changed very little in the way of features from the Z270I. I'm especially loving the more organized fan header placement, since the headers were all over the place on the Z270 version. As long as I have my two M.2 sockets, I'm a happy builder.
There's a B250 version listed on ASUS's website, still with RGB lighting! https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-B250I-GAMING/
Aside from the usual cutdowns of the B250 chipset, it looks like the B250 drops the realtek ethernet port that the H270 has and goes with a mix of USB 3.0/2.0, compared to 6 USB 3.0 on the H270.
Aside from the usual cutdowns of the B250 chipset, it looks like the B250 drops the realtek ethernet port that the H270 has and goes with a mix of USB 3.0/2.0, compared to 6 USB 3.0 on the H270.
I find it odd they would offer a B250 alongside an H270 version of this board. Seems kind of redundant unless the price point is significantly lower. At that point, I would think one of their more plain Jane boards would fit the bill.
I'd have liked to see the USB C AND the 3.1 front panel header stay though.
Perfect value with no major skiming out on rear I/O as well. If I don't go Ryzen for my next build (Hackintosh keeps my options open). This to me says that Kaby Lake boards are gonna stick around a while longer to be Coffee Lake compatible.
Let's just hope for everyone's sake that Coffee Lake isn't just another meager 5% IPC jump.
I really hope that AMD's impressive 52% IPC jump lit a fire under Intel's ass.
I really hope that AMD's impressive 52% IPC jump lit a fire under Intel's ass.
I see that nobody has posted an exciting thread about the new h270i and b250i Strix boards for that Asus announced!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11370/asus-rog-strix-h270i-b250i-announced
and according to B&H theyre going to be priced at 109.99 and 119.99 the h270i being the more expensive of the two! thoughts and opinions!?!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11370/asus-rog-strix-h270i-b250i-announced
and according to B&H theyre going to be priced at 109.99 and 119.99 the h270i being the more expensive of the two! thoughts and opinions!?!
Yeah I'm living without it currently so I don't have much use for it personally
Soo this was on the home page the other day https://smallformfactor.net/news/asus-rog-strix-h270i-motherboard-coming-soon
I love it, I use a Samsung T3 2TB on my TB3 stuff and I can video edit right off the T3 without dragging it onto my PC
BUT
2 m.2s would allow you to put Windows 10 on one and Sierra on the other. which would be pretty slick
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