Saturday, May 21st 2022

Factory Drawing of ASUS X670 Prime-P WiFi Appears Online

We're expecting to see a wide range of AM5 motherboards next week during Computex, but we're already being treated to some early leaks ahead of the show. The most recent leak was picked up by @9550pro on Twitter, but was originally posted on Baidu. What we're looking at here though, isn't actually a picture of a motherboard, but rather the placement map for the SMD components used during motherboard assembly. These pictures are often used to make sure things like the solder mask and components were applied properly during production. However, it does give us a good look at the overall layout of the ASUS X670 Prime-P WiFi and the fact that the X670 chipset does indeed consist of two parts. What is also clear is that we're looking at a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot here, as these slots are SMD components rather than through hole.

Other things that are clearly visible, includes support for three M.2 slots, of which the one closest to the CPU might be PCIe 5.0, but there's really no way of telling by just looking at the connector placement. There's also a space for a WiFi module at the bottom of the rear I/O, but beyond that, it's hard to make out the proper port layout. However, there appears to be at least one USB-C port at the rear, as well as a header for another one at the front of the motherboard, next to a USB 3.0 header. The board also appears to feature 14 power phases and obviously four DDR5 DIMM slots. The chip between the two chipsets are either a Super I/O chip or possibly a PCIe redriver. In addition to the x16 PCIe 5.0 slot, the X670 Prime-P appears to be getting a single PCIe x1 slot and two PCIe x4 slots, both which appear to get physical x16 slots. Finally the board should have two SATA ports mounted at a 90-degree angle, as well as four ports at the bottom edge of the PCB. ASUS seems to have gone for a solar system pattern on the PCB itself, so it'll be interesting to see what the actual boards will look like.
Sources: @9550pro, via VideoCardz
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51 Comments on Factory Drawing of ASUS X670 Prime-P WiFi Appears Online

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beautylessSo, X670/E has
  • 1 more M.2 2>3,
  • 2 more SATA 4>6,
  • double up all kind of USB ports in part of Chipset,
  • Chipset requires more TDP 7>14watts compare to B650
X670E has requirement to support PCI-Express version 5 on both PCIE #1 and NVME #1. But X670 might not?
That was my understanding, X670 can still have PCIe 5.0 on both gpu and nvme (nvme is required on both). I was under the impression X670 would only use 1 chipset contrary to the E but realised through a different thread that's not the case so both X670 and X670 will use 14w, I don't know what the differences will be then other than the requirement for gen5 pcie on the graphics card slot (maybe gen5.0 link to the chipset? the information is very unclear at the moment)
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