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Computex 2017 Scoop: ASRock X299 Motherboard Galore
ASRock certainly is ballsy, they figured they could show one X299 motherboard, but no, below the fold photos of the ASRock X299 Gaming K6, X299 Formula OC, X299-E ITX/AC, X299 Killer SLI/AC, X299 Professional Gaming i9.
The X299 platform will bring quad-channel DDR4 support to compatible 14nm processors and 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes with Skylake-X procs from 6 to 18 cores. Kaby Lake-X procs will support dual or quad channel DDR4 and just 24 PCIe 3.0 Lanes. The new platform also offers support for Intel Optane and quad channel DDR4-2667 MHz memory. X99 will be based up-on a new socket, LGA 2066 that means that once again you have to purchase a new (X299) motherboard.
Below an overview of a rather diverse X299 range on display here at Computex. Check the descriptions as ASRock is going wide and diverse from simple and affordable up-to expensive with 5 Gbit LAN and AC WIFI included. Nice.
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#5437066 Posted on: 05/29/2017 02:32 PM
Yeah that's interesting alright... I guess the next big thing will be RGB SO-DIMM's lol
Yeah that's interesting alright... I guess the next big thing will be RGB SO-DIMM's lol
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#5437118 Posted on: 05/29/2017 05:47 PM
Who stole Taichi?
Who stole Taichi?
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#5437195 Posted on: 05/29/2017 10:51 PM
Is there a reason for more than 3 PCI-E lanes? I mean i see 4 to 5 slots here and SLI has been cut down to just 2 cards in this current gen. Seems like overkill and a waste of money to me unless you have like 4 RX 480's already or you have more than 3 last gen AMD/Nvidia cards laying around what's the point really? That ITX board is nice though, I'm a one graphics card gamer now, that sli and crossfire hype broke my bank back in the day when i first started building PC's. Now i just like it simple, small powerful motherboard, powerful cpu and one PCI-E slot preferably or 2 at the most.
Is there a reason for more than 3 PCI-E lanes? I mean i see 4 to 5 slots here and SLI has been cut down to just 2 cards in this current gen. Seems like overkill and a waste of money to me unless you have like 4 RX 480's already or you have more than 3 last gen AMD/Nvidia cards laying around what's the point really? That ITX board is nice though, I'm a one graphics card gamer now, that sli and crossfire hype broke my bank back in the day when i first started building PC's. Now i just like it simple, small powerful motherboard, powerful cpu and one PCI-E slot preferably or 2 at the most.
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#5437298 Posted on: 05/30/2017 10:28 AM
I guess it's a bit of a relict of old days, yes. But on the other hand, 2 GPUs and 2 NVMe SSDs are probably going to be somewhat a thing in the future, not sure though.
Is there a reason for more than 3 PCI-E lanes? I mean i see 4 to 5 slots here and SLI has been cut down to just 2 cards in this current gen. Seems like overkill and a waste of money to me unless you have like 4 RX 480's already or you have more than 3 last gen AMD/Nvidia cards laying around what's the point really? That ITX board is nice though, I'm a one graphics card gamer now, that sli and crossfire hype broke my bank back in the day when i first started building PC's. Now i just like it simple, small powerful motherboard, powerful cpu and one PCI-E slot preferably or 2 at the most.
I guess it's a bit of a relict of old days, yes. But on the other hand, 2 GPUs and 2 NVMe SSDs are probably going to be somewhat a thing in the future, not sure though.
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#5437696 Posted on: 05/31/2017 06:05 AM
There are reasons to have more than 2 GPUs other than gaming, such as 3D rendering, compute workloads like transcoding, or video editing/processing. So while you don't put more than 2 in SLI/CF, there's a reason to want 3 or 4 cards if you have the right workload.
There's also the fact that you can use the extra slots for other high bandwidth uses - MSI is including an x8 card that has two m.2 PCIe slots on it (for a total of 5 slots on the board it's bundled with), and you could theoretically put four of them in a full x16 slot; heck, it probably already exists for the server market. It would cost an arm or a leg, but you could populate your PC 10+ TB of NVMe SSDs, without any bandwidth constraints like you hit on z270 with anything over one stick. Slap them into RAID 0 or even RAID10 alongside the ~100GB RAM cache you can make with the 128GB you can populate on the board and have basically zero disk wait time to load anything, ever.
Is there a reason for more than 3 PCI-E lanes? I mean i see 4 to 5 slots here and SLI has been cut down to just 2 cards in this current gen. Seems like overkill and a waste of money to me unless you have like 4 RX 480's already or you have more than 3 last gen AMD/Nvidia cards laying around what's the point really? That ITX board is nice though, I'm a one graphics card gamer now, that sli and crossfire hype broke my bank back in the day when i first started building PC's. Now i just like it simple, small powerful motherboard, powerful cpu and one PCI-E slot preferably or 2 at the most.
There are reasons to have more than 2 GPUs other than gaming, such as 3D rendering, compute workloads like transcoding, or video editing/processing. So while you don't put more than 2 in SLI/CF, there's a reason to want 3 or 4 cards if you have the right workload.
There's also the fact that you can use the extra slots for other high bandwidth uses - MSI is including an x8 card that has two m.2 PCIe slots on it (for a total of 5 slots on the board it's bundled with), and you could theoretically put four of them in a full x16 slot; heck, it probably already exists for the server market. It would cost an arm or a leg, but you could populate your PC 10+ TB of NVMe SSDs, without any bandwidth constraints like you hit on z270 with anything over one stick. Slap them into RAID 0 or even RAID10 alongside the ~100GB RAM cache you can make with the 128GB you can populate on the board and have basically zero disk wait time to load anything, ever.
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#5437935 Posted on: 05/31/2017 08:09 PM
That mini-ITX may have made me soil my pants.
That mini-ITX may have made me soil my pants.
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#5438237 Posted on: 06/01/2017 05:01 PM
When a OC-Formula for the X399, that would be awesome.
When a OC-Formula for the X399, that would be awesome.
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That E-ITX mainboard's a little weird... what RAM does that thing use? The same as laptops (can't recall the technical name they're called by sry)?