As any Mini-ITX motherboard, the ASUS MAXIMUS VI IMPACT comes with only one expansion slot. In this case, it is a PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, as expected.
There is also a Mini PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot, used by a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card that we will show later, and an M.2 slot (new kind of slot that replaces the mSATA slot).
Figure 3: Slot
Let’s take a look at one of the H55-based motherboards offered by ASRock and targeted to the entry-level market, H55DE3.
The Z87X-UD3H is a top mid-range motherboard from Gigabyte based on the new Intel Z87 chipset, targeted to socket LGA1150 processors based on the new “Haswell” microarchitecture. Let’s check it out.
Let’s take a look at the most high-end socket AM3+ motherboard currently offered by MSI based on the new AMD 990FX chipset for the forthcoming “Bulldozer” CPUs.
Everything you need to know about the AGP bus: types, speeds, voltages, etc.
A quick look at Bigwater 760i, an all-in-one water-cooling solution that Thermaltake is still thinking whether they will release or not in the US market.
Let’s take an overall look at this Gigabyte’s value motherboard for Intel socket 775 processors, based on Intel G31 chipset and with power saving features.