ECS Intros H61H2-MV Compact Micro-ATX Motherboard

[btarunr]

Several high-end mini-ITX cases these days ship with two expansion slot bays. To take advantage of that, ECS introduced the H61H2-MV. The company was careful enough to label it a micro-ATX motherboard, although its PCB length and mounting screw layout is suggestive that you could install in on one of those high-end mini-ITX cases, and end up with two expansion slots to play with. Sadly for ECS, this socket LGA1155 motherboard is based on entry-level Intel H61 Express chipset, with extremely basic connectivity.

The LGA1155 socket is powered by a 3+1+1 phase VRM, it is wired to two DDR3 DIMM slots, supporting up to 16 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory; and a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot. The second expansion slot on the board is a PCI-Express 2.0 x1, wired to the PCH. There's enough room on the board to wire out all four SATA 3 Gb/s ports from the PCH as internal ports. Connectivity includes 6-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, and D-Sub display output. Some variants are said to come with DVI and HDMI display outputs. The board is driven by UEFI BIOS. Expect its price to be well under $100.

[cdawall]

I was wondering how long before something like this came out. Wish someone had one with dual pci-e 16x slots for xfire/sli. Would be perfect for my mini itx box and dual 470's with single slot brackets and h2o.

[Arrakis+9]

Originally Posted by cdawall

I was wondering how long before something like this came out. Wish someone had one with dual pci-e 16x slots for xfire/sli. Would be perfect for my mini itx box and dual 470's with single slot brackets and h2o.

this ^

also if they had it like that design it would be like building a shuttle computer for half the cost

are you listening hardware vendors ??!

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Gag ECS, no thanks!