Do Haswell boards?

[dlf]

Curious, do any Haswell boards actually have built in wi-fi, no need to use ethernet? For that matter do any 2011 socket boards?

[Bleedman0xx]

Curious, do any Haswell boards actually have built in wi-fi, no need to use ethernet? For that matter do any 2011 socket boards?

Yes, some of the higher end Z87 motherboards come with wifi adapters that can be installed in the I/O part of the board.

 

For example: MSI Z87 MPower Max / Z87 XPower

[Glenwing]

It's not a feature of Haswell itself, no.  If the board vendors decide to add a wifi chip, that's up to them, just check the specs on each board to find out.  Usually "wifi" or "ac" will be in the title of the board as well, since manufacturers like to advertise that.  Although, there is nothing magical about built in wifi.  You can just get a PCIe or USB wireless adapter.

[Elbstrand]

Curious, do any Haswell boards actually have built in wi-fi, no need to use ethernet? For that matter do any 2011 socket boards?

 

Yes there are some Haswell boards with wifi

 

As far a i know there arent any with 2011 with wifi, since they are professional grade stuff, and no one in the right mind would use a on board wifi chip for professional applications.

 

Also if you got with a big enough board, just get a wifi card (pci-e), they are like 20-40 bucks

[dlf]

I built a Ivy bridge system a few weeks ago, while I was looking at parts, I saw way to many boards that didn't support wifi out of the box . . .

[Bleedman0xx]

Although, there is nothing magical about built in wifi. 

That's true for most boards that have wifi built in. But now board manufacturers are including modules that support wifi b/g/n/ac, bluetooth 4.0 and intel WIDI. I think that's pretty magical.

[Elbstrand]

Why would you want wifi @ a stationary object? (Yes, i know, there are extreme cases where cables aren't an option.)

[Hyydrah]

It really shouldn't be used for most desktop applications. Current wireless solutions simply aren't as well performing as ethernet.

[Elbstrand]

It really shouldn't be used for most desktop applications. Current wireless solutions simply aren't as well performing as ethernet.

 

Thats what i'm talking about :D And cables are soooo cheap

[RainbowTylernol]

It really shouldn't be used for most desktop applications. Current wireless solutions simply aren't as well performing as ethernet.

 

Some people don't have a PC situated where running cables is possible. Also having the extra performance that ethernet gives you is pretty much irrelevant if you only have something like 5 or 10 Mb/s internet. (Which 90% of North Americans have)

[Hyydrah]

Some people don't have a PC situated where running cables is possible. Also having the extra performance that ethernet gives you is pretty much irrelevant if you only have something like 5 or 10 Mb/s internet. (Which 90% of North Americans have)

It isn't irrelevant, all of the adapters I've used have noticeably higher pings and most of them had a bandwidth limitation.

 

What I'm saying is that if it's possible to use ethernet (which will likely be the case for many desktop computers) then it should be used.

[dlf]

I actually have about 3 Megabit internet, regardless of weather ethernet or wifi is used. As to why I wanted wifi, a cable would be somewhat trouble some to run here.

[Elbstrand]

I actually have about 3 Megabit internet, regardless of weather ethernet or wifi is used. As to why I wanted wifi, a cable would be somewhat trouble some to run here.

 

Well i would still probably go with a wifi pci-e card on a full atx motherboard. BUT i've seen a couple of nice Z87 boards with wifi

[Elbstrand]

BTW: Many new mini-itx mainboards come with wifi onboard, like the

 

Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI

 

or even (full) atx ones like the

 

ASUS

• Z87-Pro

 

Asrock

• Z87 OC Formula/ac
• Z87 Extreme9/ac
• Z87 Extreme6/ac