Asus X570-F - with M.2 populated any SATA ports disabled?

[wheresmycar]

For the Asus ROG Strix X570-F, I checked the manual but couldn't find any mention of SATA ports being disabled with both M.2 slots populated.

Did I miss something from the manual? If there are bandwidth penalties or disabled ports, where can i locate this info?

If it helps, the build houses a Ryzen 5900X + RTX 3080. Intended storage setup: x2 M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMEs, x1 SATA SSD, x2 SATA HD

 

[ir_cow]

Are you asking if it does, or are you saying it does?

 

[Remeca]

It looks like no. On my Asus z590 board, it does, and this section of yours:

Looks like this in mine:

 

[wheresmycar]

Are you asking if it does, or are you saying it does?

Asking.. haven't used this board yet hence uncertain

It looks like no. On my Asus z590 board, it does, and this section of yours:
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Looks like this in mine:
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Yep that second attachment is what we usually see from board manufacturers; listing all compromises clearly in the same/similar way. I can't find the same on the Asus X570-F manual which is leading me to believe there are no compromises with any/all ports utilised. Sounds too good to be true... in the least I would expect some sort of bandwidth limitation on these consumer-level boards.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

For the Asus ROG Strix X570-F, I checked the manual but couldn't find any mention of SATA ports being disabled with both M.2 slots populated.

Did I miss something from the manual? If there are bandwidth penalties or disabled ports, where can i locate this info?

If it helps, the build houses a Ryzen 5900X + RTX 3080. Intended storage setup: x2 M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMEs, x1 SATA SSD, x2 SATA HD

Neither of my X570 boards disabled sata ports. I think that was only a thing with boards that had 3 nvme drives or more and 8 sata ports although some disabled the 3rd pcie slot instead I believe. Maybe some budget boards do it idk.

 

[natr0n]

Some board disable. Mine does I lose 2 sata for using m.2

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Some board disable. Mine does I lose 2 sata for using m.2

What board do you have?

 

[freeagent]

B550 disables a couple of ports..

 

[wheresmycar]

Neither of my X570 boards disabled sata ports. I think that was only a thing with boards that had 3 nvme drives or more and 8 sata ports although some disabled the 3rd pcie slot instead I believe. Maybe some budget boards do it idk.

That sounds good enough to assume this one won't disable anything either. Most of the consumer-grade boards i've worked on in the last fews years always had some sort of compromise/bandwidth penalty although none presented any problems since there's plenty of ports for the use-case. Its nice to know the X500 chipset does away with these limitations (or some X500 boards).

 

[oxrufiioxo]

That sounds good enough to assume this one won't disable anything either. Most of the consumer-grade boards i've worked on in the last fews years always had some sort of compromise/bandwidth penalty although none presented any problems since there's plenty of ports for the use-case. Its nice to know the X500 chipset does away with these limitations (or some X500 boards).

The majority of the X570 midrange and above boards have good connectivity. Some of the X570S boards are even slightly better.

 

[Chrispy_]

B550 disables a couple of ports..

Yeah, limited lanes on the B550 chipset and half the bandwidth to the CPU on B550 mean disabling something is a necessity, usually.

X570 has plenty of lanes for most "normal" motherboard configs without the need to disable anything.

 

[freeagent]

570 has plenty of lanes for most "normal" motherboard configs without the need to disable anything.

Yup, I am running 4x M.2 drives at full speed.. very nice

 

[Chrispy_]

The majority of the X570 midrange and above boards have good connectivity. Some of the X570S boards are even slightly better.

What's the difference between the X570 and X570S? I vaguely remember the launch and though it was just a passively-cooled variant of the X570. TBH, I didn't pay it much attention at the time.

I'm running an X570S in my main rig, but not by choice, it was just spare stock that I pilfered for home because I'm a filthy pilferer.

 

[tabascosauz]

What's the difference between the X570 and X570S? I vaguely remember the launch and though it was just a passively-cooled variant of the X570. TBH, I didn't pay it much attention at the time.

I'm running an X570S in my main rig, but not by choice, it was just spare stock that I pilfered for home because I'm a filthy pilferer.

iirc X570S is not an official label, just what mobo makers chose to distinguish a new line of passive boards. There was talk about reduction in TDP from 11W to 7W, but those changes came in earlier AGESA before Dark Hero launched (the first "new" passive X570 board after Aorus Extreme). It's just X570.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

What's the difference between the X570 and X570S? I vaguely remember the launch and though it was just a passively-cooled variant of the X570. TBH, I didn't pay it much attention at the time.

I'm running an X570S in my main rig, but not by choice, it was just spare stock that I pilfered for home because I'm a filthy pilferer.

They got updated audio more usb better vrm and some got better m.2 allocations. The Pro carbon to the Pro carbon max is a good example of basically a massively different board. Gigabyte improved some of it's boards as well.

iirc X570S is not an official label, just what mobo makers chose to distinguish a new line of passive boards. There was talk about reduction in TDP from 11W to 7W, but those changes came in earlier AGESA before Dark Hero launched (the first "new" passive X570 board after Aorus Extreme). It's just X570.

I was more talking about some of the same named boards just being different/better vs the chipset being different.

 

[natr0n]

What board do you have?

B450 AORUS M

 

[oxrufiioxo]

B450 AORUS M

Oh yeah, most B450 boards are extremely cut down.