Yeah, I wonder when they’ll finally hire 100 more writers to be able to write about _all the things_ at once 2-3 times a year. Clearly AnandTech is going down the drain.
Yes, let`s have endless articles about the upcoming dud without even a price announcement to show. That will surely put out that eternal amd backside fire.
There are multiple AMD articles in the last few days, so I don't really know what you are talking about. Plus AMD didn't really announce anything that they haven't already covered before or strongly hinted, so there isn't a lot to say yet.
When Vega actually lands, or AIB partners launch designs, or threadripper actually shows up, or we actually get more than 3-4 board designs... sure! But none of that has happened yet.
with such a small board for most likely small cases... what is the best AIO watercooler? i mean for small case and overall.
i have a nanoxia deep silence 6b so size is not a problem. but i want a watercooler that is a silent as my noctua nh-d15. and can cool a 160-200 watt cpu.
ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac has Thunderbolt 3. My understanding is that it's more of a manufacturer thing rather than Intel (especially now that they're pushing it so hard), adoption rates are quite low for desktops so they generally only add it onto really high end/expensive boards to fluff them up. It's also quite possible that they literally did not have room, but who knows, seems like a lot of manufacturers are doing this kind of crap but even worse is when they don't even include USB 3.1 at all.
Sweet. My next PC will be built around something like this, 8 core CPU and a single high-end video card. Possibly in an Ncase case. SLI isn't worth the headaches under Windows 10 any more and I mostly play older games anyway. The Tiny Monster will be so neat!
wow, finally the first mitx that can be considered as a replacement for matx. Until now Mitx could not be a replacement for MATX for performance systems as you need additional PCIE slots for m2 nvme drives and atleast quad channel ram for high core count cpus. Now the only missing piece is 32 GB ram modules in this form factor and every one will simply drop matx.
It's sad to see m.2 slots routed through the chipset. Would have been great if all three m.2 were using cpu lanes, that would mean 12 lanes for storage, and 16 lanes for GPU. Theoretically a 28 lane cpu would suffice! Alas!
there needs to be something like this for AM4 B550
4 sodimms. maximum utilization of the chipset's features. cheaper. way more sales. huge profits for prophets are hard to come by; the best computers come in small packages.
AM4 is a smaller socket so it should be easy. release an improved versions using B650 and B750
rear-mount the ram and m.2 drives. encourage full rear clearance with case manufacturers. scale to front and rear mounted ram for 8 sodimm trx40 itx high density nodes.
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Gothmoth - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
wonder how much longer anandtech will ignore AMD at computex.xype - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
Yeah, I wonder when they’ll finally hire 100 more writers to be able to write about _all the things_ at once 2-3 times a year. Clearly AnandTech is going down the drain.Gothmoth - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
boy you may get a clue.when their are 10 mainboard articles and one is about AMD bitcoining mainboards then there is bias.
there is not a single article about threadripper mainboards but enough time to write about intel stuff all day.
even
Gothmoth - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
http://www.anandtech.com/tag/mbGothmoth - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
now tell me im wrong you clown....xype - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
You’re wrong you clown.helvete - Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - link
lolCharonPDX - Friday, June 2, 2017 - link
Oh, look, top story: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11473/asrock-miniitx...Calm down, dude.
ddriver - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
ECC or GTFO.Do a similar board for threadripper, I'd love to build a new portable workstation.
Samus - Thursday, June 1, 2017 - link
Why wouldn't this board accept ECC SO-DIMMs?frenchy_2001 - Thursday, June 1, 2017 - link
Intel HEDT processors usually do NOT accept ECC, so not sure why you would ask this.Here is the i9 7900X, not the ECC support: NO line:
http://ark.intel.com/products/123613/Intel-Core-i9...
Hurr Durr - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
Yes, let`s have endless articles about the upcoming dud without even a price announcement to show.That will surely put out that eternal amd backside fire.
Cygni - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
There are multiple AMD articles in the last few days, so I don't really know what you are talking about. Plus AMD didn't really announce anything that they haven't already covered before or strongly hinted, so there isn't a lot to say yet.When Vega actually lands, or AIB partners launch designs, or threadripper actually shows up, or we actually get more than 3-4 board designs... sure! But none of that has happened yet.
Gothmoth - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
with such a small board for most likely small cases... what is the best AIO watercooler?i mean for small case and overall.
i have a nanoxia deep silence 6b so size is not a problem.
but i want a watercooler that is a silent as my noctua nh-d15. and can cool a 160-200 watt cpu.
jab701 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
So....they went to all that effort, multiple M2 slots etc and didnt bother to include thunderbolt 3?DanNeely - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
Even with risers, after a certain point you just run out of space to jam more controllers on a board.ajp_anton - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
So remove one m.2, still leaving two of them, and put the TB3 controller there.jab701 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
<quote>ASRock had to place the USB 3.1 controller, SATA ports and one M.2 slot on custom DIMM-like modules</quote>If they did indeed put a USB 3.1 Controller on there, why not stick an alpine ridge and have TB3 too?
I am starting to wonder if Intel has refused to validate Mini-ITX boards with TB3 on them...I dont think I have seen one on the market yet.
keebs63 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac has Thunderbolt 3. My understanding is that it's more of a manufacturer thing rather than Intel (especially now that they're pushing it so hard), adoption rates are quite low for desktops so they generally only add it onto really high end/expensive boards to fluff them up. It's also quite possible that they literally did not have room, but who knows, seems like a lot of manufacturers are doing this kind of crap but even worse is when they don't even include USB 3.1 at all.Assimilator87 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
Interesting; I didn't know this generation of CPUs was backwards compatible with Socket LGA2011-3 ;-)Zak - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
Sweet. My next PC will be built around something like this, 8 core CPU and a single high-end video card. Possibly in an Ncase case. SLI isn't worth the headaches under Windows 10 any more and I mostly play older games anyway. The Tiny Monster will be so neat!sharath.naik - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - link
wow, finally the first mitx that can be considered as a replacement for matx. Until now Mitx could not be a replacement for MATX for performance systems as you need additional PCIE slots for m2 nvme drives and atleast quad channel ram for high core count cpus. Now the only missing piece is 32 GB ram modules in this form factor and every one will simply drop matx.jospoortvliet - Friday, June 2, 2017 - link
> they generally only add it onto really high end/expensive boards to fluff them up.I would say 280-300 dollar counts as expensive and high end?
I agree that thunderbolt is missing...
prateekprakash - Monday, August 7, 2017 - link
It's sad to see m.2 slots routed through the chipset. Would have been great if all three m.2 were using cpu lanes, that would mean 12 lanes for storage, and 16 lanes for GPU. Theoretically a 28 lane cpu would suffice!Alas!
giomasmic - Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - link
In this article about ASRock X299E-ITX/ac there is a BIG mistake, the board DON'T support I5-7640X and I7-7740X due to a lack of PCIe linesmirddes - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link
there needs to be something like this for AM4 B5504 sodimms. maximum utilization of the chipset's features. cheaper. way more sales. huge profits for prophets are hard to come by; the best computers come in small packages.
AM4 is a smaller socket so it should be easy.
release an improved versions using B650 and B750
rear-mount the ram and m.2 drives. encourage full rear clearance with case manufacturers. scale to front and rear mounted ram for 8 sodimm trx40 itx high density nodes.