Question 1

What power cord should I buy with this motherboard?

Accepted Answer

ASRock website states the specifics of the AC Adapter as 19V with tip dimensions - 7.4mm OD, 5.1mm ID and contact tip (metal piece in the center) 0.6mm.

I used an adapter from an HP Elitebook laptop and it has worked great so far.

Question 2

This board is mislabeled as a mini-itx when it is a thin-itx board right.  Also does it include a power cord since it has a dc plug in?

Accepted Answer

Right--its thin, and fit in my 'thin' case.  There is no power cord, and it needs one.

Question 3

Does it support Haswell Refresh CPUs?

Accepted Answer

Yes. As long as it LGA 1150. I used with i3-4170 and Pentium G3258 just fine.

Question 4

Will a Sata Splitter cable work to power drives?

Accepted Answer

This board comes with 2 SATA3 data plugs and has one included power cable with multiple SATA power connectors for DC power to multiple drives (etc.). Are you referring to power or data? if the latter, you are limited to two drives, and no, one cannot 'split' a data I/O cable. If you refer to power, there should be sufficient power connectors on the included power cable for most setups, including for a DVD drive, (etc). If you need more than two data connectors for multiple drives, you could certainly utilize the USB 3 0r 2  I/O ports with an 'external' drive. Alternatively, many of the modern 'flash' drives use the ~same tech as SSDs, and speeds up to or exceeding 130Mb/s. For example, I have a flash drive on > one of my mini-itx units serving as 'permanent' extra storage (128GB flash are fast and often cheaper than SSDs nowadays) Hope this helped you  GL  ;)

Question 5

to confirm with using xeons, this supports the v3 xeon line correct?

Accepted Answer

If you go to the asus site (just google h81tm-itx and it's the first link), there's a tab on the left that shows all supported cpus

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