Best mini ITX board with mini pcie?

[savestheday]

Hi guys,
Currently using a GA-H61N-USB3 and it's great. Only issue is my case (Antec ISK 110 which I love) can't fit a mini pcie to pci card. I have an extra Apple branded wifi adapter that I'd like to use. Been looking at the ASRock H67M-ITX

http://www.amazon.com/ASRock-H67M-ITX-H ... roduct_top

Is this the best choice? Seems like there are bios patches for it that enable speed step and sleep. Sleep is very important for this build because it's an HTPC so i don't want it always on.

Also, and I know this should only need a dsdt edit, hdmi audio is very important to me. MacMan said a little birdie told him that gigabyte was releasing some mini ITX boards in August but I've never seen a gigabyte board with mini pcie built in. Any advice would be awesome. Thx.

 

[Going Bald]

That is a good choice for a HTPC board Both audio and wired networking is supported. Is the apple branded card you have half height and will it fit in the existinf space? If not, and if you would like to get 802.11b/g/n connection and need air drop, this card http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 157wt_1026 works well oob and shows up as an Apple airport card with airdrop capability.

 

[Gordo74]

Hi guys,
Currently using a GA-H61N-USB3 and it's great. Only issue is my case (Antec ISK 110 which I love) can't fit a mini pcie to pci card. I have an extra Apple branded wifi adapter that I'd like to use. Been looking at the ASRock H67M-ITX

http://www.amazon.com/ASRock-H67M-ITX-H ... roduct_top

Is this the best choice? Seems like there are bios patches for it that enable speed step and sleep. Sleep is very important for this build because it's an HTPC so i don't want it always on.

Also, and I know this should only need a dsdt edit, hdmi audio is very important to me. MacMan said a little birdie told him that gigabyte was releasing some mini ITX boards in August but I've never seen a gigabyte board with mini pcie built in. Any advice would be awesome. Thx.

The board you picked will work fine.

 

[savestheday]

That is a good choice for a HTPC board Both audio and wired networking is supported. Is the apple branded card you have half height and will it fit in the existinf space? If not, and if you would like to get 802.11b/g/n connection and need air drop, this card http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 157wt_1026 works well oob and shows up as an Apple airport card with airdrop capability.

Good point. I don't think it is. Think I'd have to buy this one. And this works natively. Sweet.

 

[savestheday]

I've got the same board check out my signature to see my thread.

Let me know if you need help.

Thx so much. You have the HT version?

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