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Why are Mini-ITX Z97 boards so expensive all the sudden?

KWelz
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Did someone find out these were made of solid gold?  I have been looking for even a middling quality Z97 Mini ITX board for weeks now and the few I can find are well over 200...  What the heck is going on?  

 

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2 minutes ago, KWelz said:

Did someone find out these were made of solid gold?  I have been looking for even a middling quality Z97 Mini ITX board for weeks now and the few I can find are well over 200...  What the heck is going on?  

 

A lot of Z97 boards in general have gotten more expensive.  That's due to the release of Skylake.

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3 minutes ago, KWelz said:

Did someone find out these were made of solid gold?  I have been looking for even a middling quality Z97 Mini ITX board for weeks now and the few I can find are well over 200...  What the heck is going on?  

 

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Just now, LeonKennedy6 said:

Where do you live?

United States. 

 

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Because of Skylake I think

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10 minutes ago, Whorax said:

I always thought ITX boards were much more expensive anyways.. because they're small.

Yeah, normally Micro-ATX is the money sweet spot. ITX can get expensive.

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I was in the same boat recently on a ITX build for a friend.  A salesperson at Micro Center said it's because when manufacturers release motherboards for a new chipset, mATX and ITX boards are usually the last to come out.  The time between the release of Z97 and Z170 was so short that they didn't produce nowhere near as many as they did for past chipsets.

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