Gigabyte Readies Feature-Packed Z68 Micro-ATX Motherboard

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More details here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/145459/Gi...therboard.html

[Pob255]

Looks good, the only issue is the pci-e slot placement, I massively agree with that first comment

Surely x8/x1/x8/x4 would make more sense than x8/x1/x4/x8 - I'd have thought that the only reasons for using multiple PCI-E slots on a board like this would be a matx SLI rig, in which case a dual slot card on the bottom slot won't fit; or a single graphics card with a sound card and revodrive, in which case it doesn't matter which way round the bottom two slots are.

In what situation, in a matx rig, is it better that the bottom bottom slot has more bandwidth than the second to bottom slot?

saying it's better for sli/cf to have the extra gap between cards is fairly hollow as I don't know of any 4+1 cases, so you couldn't use two slot cards and if you use single slot cards then you don't need a 2 slot gap between them anyway.

Maybe well start to see some good mATX cases to go with them? ones that can fit decent sized cpu coolers on them.
and roll on mini-itx z68 motherboards