#5756301

bobblunderton

2020-01-31 20:39

Finally, an ITX board with four RAM slots, PCI-E, and other connectivity - so now it can be more than just an ATM. I could actually get some content creation work done with this!

#5756302

schmidtbag

2020-01-31 20:53

bobblunderton:

Finally, an ITX board with four RAM slots, PCI-E, and other connectivity - so now it can be more than just an ATM. I could actually get some content creation work done with this!

Not only that, but this actually seems to make use of the extra PCIe bandwidth. 10Gbps Ethernet is a really nice feature to have integrated. I don't like how you can have a perfectly good chipset "wasted" on a board that can't take advantage of it, but this one does.

#5756344

Kaarme

2020-02-01 00:31

Asus: There's only 1cm between the PCB and the video card. No choice but to install a tiny, high RPM fan for the chipset. Asrock: Let's change the PCB design so that the chipset is elsewhere and there's room for a decent passive heat sink. Asus: ???

#5756345

anticupidon

2020-02-01 00:58

- 2 x RJ45 10GLAN by Intel® X550-AT2 This alone screams SOHO Server... I wonder how it will be priced.

#5756355

Huggi

2020-02-01 02:37

So this doesn't have a 24-pin power connector... Has an 8-pin and two 4-pin EPS connectors so I'm guessing that second 4-pin at the bottom-right corner is what is powering the motherboard? But that means you'll also need a PSU with three EPS cables since the two 4-pins are both the left side of a 4+4 cable along with the 8-pin.

#5756359

ruthan

2020-02-01 03:44

10 Gbit Nics had quite big heat sinks, some had even active cooling.. Its this progress or disaster or some paper 10Gbit - 2.5 Gbit in real port?

#5756363

EspHack

2020-02-01 04:31

i thought all ryzen cpus had ecc support?

#5756372

ChicagoDave

2020-02-01 07:30

This is the ultimate NAS or router/firewall (or both) motherboard. Those are dual Intel 10GbE ports controlled by an Intel X550-AT2 chip, along with a another 1GbE port for remote management. That chip next to the D-sub video output is an ASpeed AST2500 BMC that provides basic graphical output, therefore there is no need to have a dGPU or an APU. Support for ECC RAM, and storage wise it has 8 SATA ports and a PCI.E 4.0 x4 NVME M.2 Then there's the 16 lanes of PCI.E 4.0 to add whatever else you want, either a ton more storage, hardware RAID, more 10GbE. Even USB is decent with two 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A and a header for another USB 31. Gen 1. I can't wait to see what this thing is priced at...been waiting for something like this to come out for ages.

#5756378

anticupidon

2020-02-01 08:23

EspHack:

i thought all ryzen cpus had ecc support?

It's true, Ryzen CPUs have ECC support, but it's down to the motherboard to properly use and implement true functionality. Asrock have the most efforts spent in this direction, for prosumer motherboards. Things are different in server grade motherboards.

#5756385

chrislondon

2020-02-01 08:35

Huggi:

So this doesn't have a 24-pin power connector... Has an 8-pin and two 4-pin EPS connectors so I'm guessing that second 4-pin at the bottom-right corner is what is powering the motherboard? But that means you'll also need a PSU with three EPS cables since the two 4-pins are both the left side of a 4+4 cable along with the 8-pin.

ASRock Rack had a few motherboards with similar layouts in the past (e.g. EPYC3251D4I-2T). On those the 2nd 4-pin ATX 12V connector was there to provide power for SATA devices.

#5756405

bobblunderton

2020-02-01 11:49

So since the x570 chipset is cooled by the CPU fan on the typical OEM 'downdraft' style cooler, why can't larger motherboards do this? For two cents I'd almost wager I could run my bottom front case fan off the header for the chipset fan on my x570 board... IF it was directed enough at the chipset. Not that I've ever heard the chipset fan yet in 6 months (I haven't). So with a modest processor 3600/3600x, a modest graphics card, I could build my retired 70 year old mother the best "Multiplayer Solitaire Deathmatch" machine in town. SWEET! She's going to love that. That's her absolute favorite game.

#5757079

SamuelL421

2020-02-03 22:26

It looks fantastic, this would be perfection if they could cram an additional m.2 on the back.

#5757201

Evildead666

2020-02-04 08:34

EspHack:

i thought all ryzen cpus had ecc support?

anticupidon:

It's true, Ryzen CPUs have ECC support, but it's down to the motherboard to properly use and implement true functionality. Asrock have the most efforts spent in this direction, for prosumer motherboards. Things are different in server grade motherboards.

I was under the impression that ECC was only "validated" on Ryzen Pro chips ? Still, this is a motherboard that I could easily buy to replace my ITX Nas motherboard.... Just waiting for the eye-watering price 🙂

#5757202

anticupidon

2020-02-04 08:42

I was under the same impression. The Pro line for Ryzen family address to certain professional grade workstations. But reality is different. The Ryzen CPUS can work with ECC ram, but having the ram memory validated and also enabled fully and working as it should it is a different story. There are a lot of threads about building Ryzen NAS with full ECC support needed for ZFS file system. And very few motherboards are having ECC ram fully enabled and running.