piloponthThis Alder lake is becomming better joke every week. Now it needs skyscrappers of VRM circuitry on ITX boards.

piloponthThis Alder lake is becomming better joke every week. Now it needs skyscrappers of VRM circuitry on ITX boards.

TurmaniaWhen I first seen this, my first thought was oh this will cost more than 350 USD. I know Asus charges premium but at least they try to think outside of the box.

Darmok N Jaladwhat would also be interesting is if they engineered an extension cable off the main board that housed all the common case connections (power, switches, audio, USB, LED etc), so that those connections could be made elsewhere inside the case and more easily hidden.

cst1992Makes sense, looking at the size of that thing.
If someone told me it had the same amount of functionality as a single-layered MicroATX board, I wouldn't immediately dismiss that statement.

@W1zzard Would love a review of this or a similar board. It'd be great to see how the build experience is on one of these.

zoom314Commodore did this with the Amiga 1000 computer years ago, it became a problem later and was discontinued.

Franzen4RealIf that additional layer is indeed for a 2nd M.2, then I would say I like this better than my X570i. Mine has the second slot on the back side of the board like many do, suffocating between the mobo and case wall. This approach would allow for at least some airflow over the 2nd drive, and also wouldn't require removing the motherboard to change ssd's.

TurmaniaWhen I first seen this, my first thought was oh this will cost more than 350 USD. I know Asus charges premium but at least they try to think outside of the box.

TheLostSwedeI thought the Amiga 500 used a lot of stacked and external expansion as well.
We've gotten a lot better connectors since then though.


Who knows, maybe this board has a third slot on the back?
Why not use the motherboard plate a a heatsink for the rear SSD? Just requires a thick thermal pad...

Franzen4RealIf that additional layer is indeed for a 2nd M.2, then I would say I like this better than my X570i. Mine has the second slot on the back side of the board like many do, suffocating between the mobo and case wall. This approach would allow for at least some airflow over the 2nd drive, and also wouldn't require removing the motherboard to change ssd's.


Seriously, that is a great idea, Asus already offers the separate Q-Connection plugs, just need two of those and the ability to terminate them cleanly on a group of wires. If your soldering/sleeving game is on point, you need to offer these in custom lengths to the aftermarket :toast:


this is similar and I like mine.

rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-x570-i-gaming-model/gallery

zoom314No the 500 was a single board as can be seen at this bing link.

Darmok N JaladA rather long time ago, I thought it would be a great idea to make PSUs with detachable cables. I won’t claim to be the inventor or even take the credit, but now that is a thing. You never know who’s listening, right? Maybe an ASUS marketer goes digging through these blurbs to see what resonates with potential customers.