Trying to find a mini-itx lga1155 board that supports DDR3-1600

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Hey all,

As the title suggests, I'm trying to find a place that has a motherboard in stock that satisfies these requirements:
- mini-itx
- LGA1155 (To be used with Intel ivybridge i5-3450)
- Support for DDR3-1600 memory
- PCI-express 3.0 slot

I'm registered with most distributors, but don't have their pricelists handy (and it is Saturday today ~_~).

Any suggestions?
 
Why does it have to support DDR3 1600? If it doesn't support it, then it will simply downclock it from 1600Mhz to 1333MHz - problem solved.
 
The performance difference between DDR3 1333Mhz and 1600Mhz won't be noticed in most applications, except in like memory benchmarks.
When you run your DDR3 1600Mhz modules at 1333Mhz, you can always just decrease the CAS latencies in the BIOS, making the difference even smaller.
 
Thanks, I'll take that into consideration. If memory clock is no longer an issue, then the real question is what the difference between a H67 and H77 chipset is (will do some reading).
 
A couple of quick searches yields that the biggest advantages of getting the H77 chipset over H67 chipset are:
- native usb 3.0 support
- intel SRT (useless to me, as I'll only be installing a SSD)
- native 3-panel display support on 3rd-gen intel cpu's (highly unlikely that I'll ever use this)
- support for ddr3-1600 ram (as discussed above, but since 1333mhz ram running with lower CAS latencies achieves similar performance it's not necessary)

Does anyone know of anything obvious I'm missing? (Keeping in mind I'll be running this with an Ivy Bridge CPU)
 
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