The small form factor crowd has grown in leaps and bounds over the last few years. Every day on Facebook or some other spot on the internet you will see some pretty impressive builds with tiny motherboards stuffed in them. However, one of the things that has always seemed to be missing I full chipset support. Most of the time you can find mini-ITX boards running business or consumer chipsets. Fortunately, this trend has been changing and we are seeing more powerful boards hitting the market. We have one of these newer boards in the lab in the form of the Asus Z97I Plus. This Z97 chipset based board is intended to put all the power and features of larger boards into a tiny package. Let’s see how well Asus does at reaching this goal.
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Conclusion –
So far we have to say that we are impressed with the Z97I Plus. Asus has stacked some pretty great features into this board and unless they really screwed up on the execution then we should see some solid performance out of it. In fact Asus themselves have indicated that the Z97I Plus can max out both a 4770K and a 4790. This is quite a thing to say considering the new Core i7 4790 has already hit over 5.5GHz on air cooling. Fortunately for you and us we have a Core i7 4790 in the lab and will be able to put this to the test.
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