Wednesday, October 12th 2022
ASRock Launches LiveMixer Series Motherboards
Leading global motherboard manufacturer, ASRock, is proud to announce its new lineup, LiveMixer. There are Z790 LiveMixer and B650 LiveMixer for Intel's and AMD's new platform separately, which are produced in partnership with content creators that need motherboards with superb reliability, cutting-edge performance and an extended connectivity mix for the many auxiliary devices required for streaming. LiveMixer is the incarnation of valiance. It sets us free from the concrete jungle with its colorful graffiti. The stylish pattern represents the courage and bravery we possess to speak up for ourselves and try new things enriching life.
"We've studied the need of live streaming for a long time, and here comes our first LiveMixer that helps streamers to stream in great quality with its well VRM design, additional PCIe slots and twenty-plus USB ports." Says Chris Lee, Vice President of ASRock Motherboard & Gaming Monitor Business Unit. With a maximum of 23 USB ports to connect external devices, users will never run short. Hook up every peripheral, whether it's mice, keyboards, microphones, headsets, multiple cameras, fill-lights, macropads, and much more. Equipped with dual PCI-Express 4x slots & Thunderbolt header, The LiveMixer allows users to connect a graphics card, a high-speed capture card and a Thunderbolt add-in card at the same time.
Expedite video editing using the newest PCI-Express 5.0 NVMe SSDs with incredible data-transfer speeds. A multi-layer heatsink provides superb heat dissipation, ensuring even during sustained heavy use the highest performance SSDs can work without thermal throttling.
Ultra USB Power
The LiveMixer features Ultra USB Power, which uses a dedicated IC that converts 12 V power to 5 V, ensuring less voltage drop to provide more stable power to demanding USB devices. Completely separated from other 5 V circuits, it ensures USB audio devices suffer less noise, and it prevents power-related interference from other 5 V connected devices, such as ARGB LEDs.
Lightning Gaming Ports
The LiveMixer includes Lightning Gaming Ports that are dedicated to providing the lowest latency mouse and keyboard input. Lightning Gaming Ports connect via their own dedicated controller, which avoids signal delay, helping gamers to play with minimal jitter and input latency.
Show Your Personality
Build a fresh rig that reflects your personality, enjoyment of streaming, and gaming live. Create without compromise, attach all your gear all the time. Never sweat it. Set your streams free.
For more information, visit the product pages of the B650 Livemixer and Z790 Livemixer.
"We've studied the need of live streaming for a long time, and here comes our first LiveMixer that helps streamers to stream in great quality with its well VRM design, additional PCIe slots and twenty-plus USB ports." Says Chris Lee, Vice President of ASRock Motherboard & Gaming Monitor Business Unit. With a maximum of 23 USB ports to connect external devices, users will never run short. Hook up every peripheral, whether it's mice, keyboards, microphones, headsets, multiple cameras, fill-lights, macropads, and much more. Equipped with dual PCI-Express 4x slots & Thunderbolt header, The LiveMixer allows users to connect a graphics card, a high-speed capture card and a Thunderbolt add-in card at the same time.
Ultra USB Power
The LiveMixer features Ultra USB Power, which uses a dedicated IC that converts 12 V power to 5 V, ensuring less voltage drop to provide more stable power to demanding USB devices. Completely separated from other 5 V circuits, it ensures USB audio devices suffer less noise, and it prevents power-related interference from other 5 V connected devices, such as ARGB LEDs.
Lightning Gaming Ports
The LiveMixer includes Lightning Gaming Ports that are dedicated to providing the lowest latency mouse and keyboard input. Lightning Gaming Ports connect via their own dedicated controller, which avoids signal delay, helping gamers to play with minimal jitter and input latency.
Show Your Personality
Build a fresh rig that reflects your personality, enjoyment of streaming, and gaming live. Create without compromise, attach all your gear all the time. Never sweat it. Set your streams free.
For more information, visit the product pages of the B650 Livemixer and Z790 Livemixer.
35 Comments on ASRock Launches LiveMixer Series Motherboards
Just make them under $200 FFS.
Nice to see something different.
Hoping other brands also make similar boards, but perhaps with minimalist or industrial styling.
"Premium" means non-essential features, and for a single-GPU build that means the following:
- the extra 3 slots and board size of ATX
- decoration, either ARGBLED or stylised heatsinks that cost a lot more but don't actually have additional surface area
- plastic "armour"
- overbuilt VRMs with a focus on overclocking or LN2 support
- upgraded/additional NICs, Audio, storage beyond the default chipset-provided ones
- steel-reinforced RAM and M.2 slots, which are purely decorative since RAM and M.2 drives weigh nothing.
The "B" in B650 stands for budget. AMD said so 5 years ago and it hasn't changed. Here is a budget board for $100 and it has everything you need to build a bleeding-edge PC right now, since the only thing you can't plug into is a PCIe 5.0 SSD, which is still currently unobtainable.www.newegg.com/msi-pro-b550m-vc-wifi/p/N82E16813144548
At $10 more than the entry-level B550 boards the money is spent wisely, IMO - you get WiFi, a reinforced GPU slot, and an M.2 heatsink.
If AMD want B650 boards to cost four times what a perfectly-good B550 board costs, they can enjoy losing the budget and most of the mid-range end of the consumer market with AM5
Another data point is the prevalence of $150 Intel B660 boards that have LGA socket, DDR5, PCIe 5.0
If Asrock can make that for $150, then it's not the LGA socket module, the DDR5 slots, or the PCIe 5.0 responsible for the ridiculous price of these AM5 boards.
Dull yellow is the sexiest colour - it's the true minimalist colour as it's unpigmented and the yellow you see is the natural colours of the fibreglass used in the PCB and the copper: