14 DAY TRIAL // Intel may have decided to move from LGA to BGA CPUs, but the time when removable chips are no longer available isn't upon us yet.
That's why it still pays off to release products like the ASRock LGA1150 H87E-ITX/ac motherboard, which is ready to receive Haswell CPUs.
That's not what ASRock focused on when it launched it though. Instead, it specified that it is its first mini-ITX motherboard featuring 802.11ac WLAN Wi-Fi.
That said, a 4-phase VRM powers the CPU socket, while two conventional 240-pin DIMM slots can hold up to 32 GB DDR3 RAM, assuming anyone can actually find 16 GB modules.
Other specs include a PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, a mPCIe (populated by the WLAN card), Bluetooth 4.0, 8-channel HD audio (Realtek ALC1150 codec), four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0/1.1 ports, and three display outputs (DVI, DisplayPort, and HDMI).
Sales of the H87-based H87E-ITX/ac ASRock motherboard will start later this week, for an unknown price.