ASRock Introduces Nine AM4 motherboards - 5 Gbit LAN for X370 Professional Gaming

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/25/2017 11:32 AM | source: | 39 comment(s)

We've seen most AM4 motherboards from all mobo-manufacturers by now, but not so much from ASRock. In this news-item I'll be showing you the nine models they release for AMD Ryzen processors.

ASRock will launch four high-end X370 chipset based units and five mainstream B350 motherboards. Most of the X370 and B350 boards are now already on pre-order for next week. A320M (mITX) boards will be announced later on likely in Q2. The boards that ARock releases are:

X370 Professional Gaming

2 x PCI-Express 3.0 x16
1 x PCI-Express 2.0 x16
Realtek ALC1220 audio
10 x SATA600
1 x M.2 (PCIe 3.0 x4)
1 x M.2 (PCIe 2.0 x4)
2 x USB 3.1 (Gen 2) one Type-C
Intel 802.11ac WiFi + BT 4.2
AQUANTIA 5 Gigabit LAN, Intel Gigabit LAN

X370 Taichi

2 x PCI-Express 3.0 x16
1 x PCI-Express 2.0 x16
Realtek ALC1220 audio
10 x SATA600
1 x M.2 (PCIe 3.0 x4)
1 x M.2 (PCIe 2.0 x4)
2 x USB 3.1 (Gen 2) one Type-C
Intel 802.11ac WiFi + BT 4.2

X370 Gaming K4

2 x PCI-Express 3.0 x16
4 x PCI-Express 2.0 x1
Realtek ALC1220 audio
6 x SATA600
1 x M.2 (PCIe 3.0 x4)
1 x M.2 (PCIe 2.0 x4)
1 x M.2 (Key E, for WiFi)
2 x USB 3.1 (Gen 2) one Type-C

And then the X370 Killer SLI, AB350 Gaming K4, AB350 Pro4, AB350M Pro4, AB350M and AB350M-HDV for which the specs are listed in the slides and photos. Have a peek below, click the thumbnails to check them out.

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Stairmand
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#5397861 Posted on: 02/25/2017 12:24 PM

Was pleased to see a pair of M.2 slots as many AMD boards seem to only include one. Then noticed that the second one was horribly restricted.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#5397864 Posted on: 02/25/2017 12:45 PM

Yeah they seem to link a second M2 through the chipset, which is Gen 2.0. It's still ~1600+ MB/sec bidirectional though.

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#5397869 Posted on: 02/25/2017 12:55 PM

For someone like me who uses a Blue theme inside his computer case, these boards all look awful.

Yeah they seem to link a second M2 through the chipset, which is Gen 2.0. It's still ~1600 MB/sec bidirectional though.

That's alright for most users in my book, fast SSD's aren't cheap.

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#5397886 Posted on: 02/25/2017 02:07 PM

Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming
Looks awesome with AQUANTIA® 5Gb/s BASE-T Ethernet

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#5397891 Posted on: 02/25/2017 02:23 PM

The Samsung 960 EVO NVME drives are not 'that' expensive (especially if you intend to build high end) and already break 3200MBps. Pricing will continue to fall as more high end NVME drives appear on the market.

Certainly, I'm considering a Ryzen build to upgrade from Ivybridge but would want a pair (ideally the ability to RAID them too).......

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