Need some help sorting out suitable motherboards
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Topic: Need some help sorting out suitable motherboards
Posted By: Stonelesscutter
Subject: Need some help sorting out suitable motherboards
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2015 at 10:16am
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Hello all! I hope I'm posting this in the correct section. I just signed up to ask this question. I'm having trouble finding out which ASRock motherboards offer the specs I'm looking for. I'm hoping someone here will be able to point me in the right direction. I'm looking for a motherboard that comes equipped with a HDMI 2.0 port and an LGA1151 socket. Preferably a mini-itx or a micro-atx form factor with a H170 or Z170 chipset. Other keywords that would be of interest to me are DDR4, USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt.
Does ASRock have any motherboards to offer that include the above mentioned specs? How do I find out which ones are suitable without looking at every individual board one by one? The reason I'm looking for this is because I'm considering building a small PC to connect to my TV and possibly use as a media server. It won't be used for any gaming, at least that's not the intention. I hope someone can help me out. |
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Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2015 at 2:23pm
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Here are the ITX boards for the LGA 1151 socket based on the Z170 and H170 chipsets: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z170M-ITXac/index.us.asp" rel="nofollow - Z170M-ITX/ac http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z170%20Gaming-ITXac/index.us.asp" rel="nofollow - Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H170M-ITXac/index.us.asp" rel="nofollow - H170M-ITX/ac http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H170M-ITXDL/index.us.asp" rel="nofollow - H170M-ITX/DL There are a few others but they are based on the B150 and H110 chipsets. The only one of those that might support HDMI 2.0 is the Fatal1ty Gaming-ITX/ac and I say might because it has USB 3.1 which according to an erroneous post I found on redit uses a controller that can also provide HDMI 2.0 support. What I know for certain is that no 100 series chipset supports native HDMI 2.0, an additional controller needs to be added to facilitate this. What you can do however is use a display port to HDMI converter which apparently will give you an HDMI 2.0 output.
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Posted By: Stonelesscutter
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2015 at 7:09pm
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Thanks @Xaltar. That board does specify 4096x2160 @60Hz. I see it has 2 HDMI ports. Presumably one of them is HDMI 1.4 and the other 2.0.
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Posted By: Stonelesscutter
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2015 at 7:26pm
Is this converter something you add to the motherboard or is it something you connect on the outside to the displayport?
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Xaltar wrote:Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2015 at 8:15pm
| So far as I am aware it is an external adapter that converts display port to HDMI. |