Monday, May 20th 2019
MSI X570 MPG Motherboards Leaked: Gaming Pro Carbon, Gaming Plus
The folks over at Videocardz have treated us to a leak on MSI's upcoming X570 motherboards. The company's mid-tier MPG motherboards usually include the likes of the Gaming Carbon and Gaming Plus motherboards, and this round of motherboard development is no different. Both motherboards join leaked designs from other brands that showed active cooling being mounted on top of the chipset, a throwback to another era.
The leaked Gaming Plus is the lower-tier of the two leaked solutions of today, cutting on reinforcements on some expansion ports (such as the PCIe 16x slot). The Gaming Pro Carbon features a fancier design (with RGB lighting); the chipset hroud also serves as cooling for M.2 slots you can populate underneath (or so it seems). The Gaming Pro Carbon has more attention to detail on the placement of connectors such as SATA, and seems to have a slight advantage on the overall motherboard power delivery circuits, but these are just being eyeballed. One thing we can see is that while the Gaming Pro Carbon features MSI's Audio Boost feature, the Gaming Plus doesn't. Expect more details to be available closer to launch.
Source:
Videocardz
The leaked Gaming Plus is the lower-tier of the two leaked solutions of today, cutting on reinforcements on some expansion ports (such as the PCIe 16x slot). The Gaming Pro Carbon features a fancier design (with RGB lighting); the chipset hroud also serves as cooling for M.2 slots you can populate underneath (or so it seems). The Gaming Pro Carbon has more attention to detail on the placement of connectors such as SATA, and seems to have a slight advantage on the overall motherboard power delivery circuits, but these are just being eyeballed. One thing we can see is that while the Gaming Pro Carbon features MSI's Audio Boost feature, the Gaming Plus doesn't. Expect more details to be available closer to launch.
23 Comments on MSI X570 MPG Motherboards Leaked: Gaming Pro Carbon, Gaming Plus
to me seems for cooling m2 ssd
It is showing MSI attatude towords AMD, as their Z390 Carbon has Type-C frontpanel header.
At least they didn't cut back on VRM cooling.
No ITX on launch... looks like I'm getting a Strix board again at some point if X570 is a better upgrade. Or maybe they won't even bother because they can't put a decent heatsink due to space constraints.
Apparently, the chipset is 15w, so maybe could have been run passive, but because it's in house(AMD) they have put one on in case it gets hotter running ssd raid?
Unlike 300- and 400-series, x570 is an in-house design, so I'm very much certain it's not built on AsMedia's 55nm fab (and if it is, it's gonna be huge).
Also, if you remember x48, x58 and such, those were pretty hot too(25-30W) and most boards had heatpipes running from NB to VRM with some copper fin stacks. Nowadays VRM is also getting hot, so that kind of passive approach is no longer an option. Plus all manufacturers are cutting costs on everything, so I doubt anyone's gonna spend that precious extra BOM cash on fancy cooling solution made of copper.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but with corporate greed and tendency to exploit customers - highly improbable. Though, I really miss heatpipes and fin stacks on MoBos15W is a speculative number, and as far as I can tell, it could be anywhere in a 15-25W ballpark... maybe more... maybe less. :fear:
www.extremetech.com/computing/284887-asmedia-still-likely-building-amd-chipsets
Maybe we'll see a return of these? :p