I don't know where the websites are getting there exact source from. There's a handful of sites in the last 2 weeks that have all repeated the same quote "AMD's first wave of 600-series motherboards would focus on the higher-end X670E & X670 designs followed by B650E & B650 products a few weeks later (around October/November) "
Hopefully that's the case, I don't know how you logically wait till the first quarter of next year to make AM5 even somewhat accessible at the consumer level especially given your competition
I have to apologise, I mixed up the Intel H770/B760 launch, which is at CES, with the B650 launch, which now seems to be October 10th.
WTF is this Pro X670-P WiFi garbage? PCIe x16, then x4 (but a full-length metal slot), and then a x2 slot that is also full-length? What's even the point?
Expect a lot of boards with x2 slots, some even PCIe 3.0, using full x16 physical slots.
I don't get this article. MSI published these specs like a week ago. And they are hardly "late", neither ASRock nor ASUS have published specs yet, only Gigabyte.
You mean like this
It would appear that we're slowly getting closer to the launch of AMD's AM5 platform, as ASRock just put up its first X670E motherboard on its website. The page still has very limited information and there's only a single picture of the motherboard, which is the same one that the company shared...
www.techpowerup.com
and this
Slowly but surely, we're getting more and more details about upcoming AM5 motherboards and ASRock has put up a very spec light page for its upcoming X670E Pro RS motherboard. Not much has changed since the Computex reveal, but the product page did contain a couple of extra board shots as well as...
www.techpowerup.com
Asus has had one board up for quite some time.
Sorry if I was a couple of days late on noticing, but no-one else seems to have picked up when MSI put it up either.
It looks like USB power delivery is going to be a rare animal, only the ACE board supports it (60 W on one of the front ports).
It seems to be all through the front port, I think I've only seen one board that does it via a rear port.
It's still a 4.0 slot so even a moderm graphics card wouldn't really see that much difference. Better than the usual slot from the chipset that can only be used if an m.2 is not populated. The x2 is pretty silly though, x670 has x4 lanes for a slot, don't know what they did to the 2 missing lanes.
WiFi and Ethernet or something along those lines.
I don't get the need for high power PD ports on motherboards, are you charging a laptop from your desktop? Few phones support that kind of power and even then, it's not something that should be used often on phones if you want the battery to last for any reasonable length of time.
You're not getting more than 1.5-2A without it though and even 20-30 W would be nice, which no-one seems to implement.
I believe Asrock and Asus (maybe Gigabyte too) have USB 4 by reading their specs lists, so why can they offer it on X670E and not MSI. They are always behind on USB IMO.
On a few SKUs, yes. And it's USB4, not USB 4.
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