Wednesday, April 4th 2018
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ASRock X470 Fatal1ty Gaming ITX/ac Motherboard Pictured
Here are some of the first pictures of ASRock X470 Fatal1ty Gaming ITX/ac, one of the first few upcoming AMD X470 chipset motherboards built in the mini-ITX form-factor. The board draws power from a 24-pin ATX, and an 8-pin EPS connector, and uses an 8-phase VRM to power the SoC. The AM4 socket is wired to two DDR4 DIMM slots, supporting up to 32 GB of dual-channel memory; a reinforced PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, and a 32 Gbps M.2-2280 slot (reverse side), besides two of the board's four SATA 6 Gbps ports, four of its USB 3.0 ports, and the onboard audio. The AMD X470 chipset puts out the remaining two SATA 6 Gbps ports and two USB 3.1 gen 2 ports, including a type-C port. High-grade 8-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, and 802.11 ac WLAN with Bluetooth 4.1, make for the rest of it.
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25 Comments on ASRock X470 Fatal1ty Gaming ITX/ac Motherboard Pictured
Some may like that ASRock went with black instead of red like the X370 Fatal1ty. A little easier to work a non-red color scheme.
That's beyond dumb.
The decision of a PR or whatever team to put this sort info is really worthless, it nears the snake oil religious preaching territory. It is low, it is tasteless. Put the ALC1220 sign and everything would be solid and clear. They advertise a part contributing less 0.01% of overall performance.
Those caps does have an impact on the sound signature, I had two motherboard with the same realtek chip, but the one with nichicon cap had a smoother, warmer sound.
Otherwise why the shun of Realtek? Who else has comparable interfaces working on HDA bus??? It is enough. The darn board does not have enough space nor power resources to properly utilize more serious sound solutions, yet the audience having the gear to utilize it is even smaller and none of them will use it as a analog signal source either way.
It is just funny how studio grade recording pro gear kind a lives a happy life without these magic caps with gold, virgin blood, fine spider silk... A puzzle indeed. *sarcasm*
They might have put a proper TPA6120, then yes Asrock guys, you did a good job, like others do for certain boards, gamers and any other current thirsty headphone users will praise you.
In the end it means... Like putting an ad on a car - it has round wheels and it is a feature.
Well I can add an image of a mature design. Lynx E44 card. They adress the pcie latency flaws by using very fast Spartan CPU.
The design is tight, proven and boring. Yet works like an atomic clock. No bells and whistles, just plain precision. Audiophiles are a funny bunch, reminds me of the flat earth rocket cuckoo guy.
If you suppose that ESS Sabre is something good without trade offs you don't understand what really it is as a 1 bit dac and how it works. There's load of them and you put generalize it. Just as caps, there simply are no simple audio caps even for Nichicon. There are KA, FG, FW, KZ etc... each with their own drawback especially the lifespan.
We have an itx board, from asrock, the heck the audiophile thing? It is beyond stupid as such, what's even the discussion about snake oil, that no one will use either way as the product is specifically targeted.
Musicality has nothing to do with caps or sound coloration, it is even in clash with the term hi fidelity lol. If it's recorded as shit(especially so called modern home studios) it will sound more like bigger shit on better gear(in general better gear causes greater abyss). For playing on crap gear it will sound the same(shit), that's the only general difference about audio fidelity and why you want a better gear. The main task of a generic audio part is to be transparent. Leaving all the placebo snake oil to the minority of believers and let them buy their dedicated devices. Case closed.
When in doubt, how about this 'current conditioning unit'
www.lessloss.com/firewall-module-p-216.html
"Use the Firewall module with any equipment so that its potential performance can be realized in today's over-polluted electro-magnetic atmosphere " :laugh:
Its hilarious. Browse a bit and be amazed
Almost every motherboard with AMD chipsets were nothing like what Intel boards are for Covfefe Lake. They seemed much better in every way. Thankfully this discrepancy seems to have gone away.
What was worse that only premium boards shipped with ALC1220 codec, most of them used the ancient ALC889. I wanted to do audio connector re-tasking, guess what. Even with unlocked drivers I couldn't do squat.
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