With Coffee Lake we also saw the introduction of the Z370-chipset. Of course this also means a new set of motherboards. This includes Mini-ITX motherboards, which we compare in this review. Today we take a look at the ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming ITX/ac, the ASUS ROG Strix Z370-I Gaming and the Gigabyte Z370N-WiFi.

Although the HTPC is on its way out thanks to good built-in multi-media support of televisions and devices like the Nvidia Shield, the Mini-ITX form factor remains very popular. The shift from ATX to Micro-ATX seems to be retroactive, but thanks to the possibility of powerful hardware in a small enclosure ITX remains. You cannot use multiple graphics cards using this format, quad channel memory or big processor coolers. However, this does not mean that you cannot build a powerful system at 17 by 17 centimetres, because with the advent of a larger number of cores on the mainstreamsockets there is more computing power than ever before on Mini-ITX.