Can you recommend a good Mini-ITX LGA1150 motherboard?

[CoderElectronics]

Has anyone seen a mini itx motherboard that is LGA1150 and has 4 memory slots (sodimm or dimm)?

[Jurrunio]

Of course. Just search "H81 ITX" or "B85 ITX" or "Z87 ITX", basically every LGA1150 chipset with ITX at the back.

[CoderElectronics]

I have looked at exactly that and could not find one with 4 ram slots.

 

I am trying to build a Mini-ITX workstation with 32gb of ram, but it appears that there aren't any motherboards available with that capability.

[Jurrunio]

Oh I didnt notice the 4 DIMM slot part. This is unfortunately not a thing on the consumer platform, and funnily enough some boards are specifically built with 2 memory slots for memory overclocking, while mITX's small size gives board vendors a good reason to only use 2 slots.

 

mITX boards on sockets that support quad channel memory do offer 4 slots (Asrock X99E-ITX and X299E-ITX, even the Asrock rack LGA3647 mITX board) and that's it.

 

20 minutes ago, CoderElectronics said:

32gb of ram

Now that's achieveable without using RDIMM. There are DDR3 unregistered sticks that go up to 16GB capacity per stick, two of them will give you 32GB.

 

21 minutes ago, CoderElectronics said:

a Mini-ITX workstation

now this I dont understand. LGA 1150 only gives you 4 cores and ITX boards for those arent exactly cheap, while AMD Ryzen gives you 8 cores (each as fast as one on Haswell) for under $200, and a new ITX board cost about $120.