Gigabyte Z97N-Gaming 5 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review

news · November 4, 2014

Intel's Z97 platform is a perfect basis for a mini-ITX system build

as it features enough performance to please even the most demanding

user while still being power efficient enough to be tamed by small

form factor cases and modest cooling solutions. Due to those reasons

it isn't surprising to see Intel's LGA 1150 platform dominate the

mini-ITX landscape. Creating a mini-ITX motherboardÃ‚Â from AMD's AM3+

or Intel's LGA 2011 platforms is unfeasible from a number of

perspectives including heat and for LGA 2011, the size of the socket

and number of memory lanes required. We have seen other mini-ITX

motherboards emerge for low power platforms like Intel's Bay Trail,

AMD's Kabini and AMD's FM2+ APU platform but relatively speaking all

three of these platforms cannot rival Intel's LGA 1150 in terms of raw

performance. In short, Intel's mainstream LGA 1150 platform offers the

best balance of features, performance, pricing and power efficiency

for the mini-ITX form factor.

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