ASRock Socket AM4 Motherboard Lineup Detailed

[TheLaughingMan]

I'm pretty sure GPU is served by PCIe lanes coming from the CPU, not the chipset.

Yeah, that is what I said. Chip as in CPU. Those how chipset is something seperate in that statement feeding off of the last 4 PCIe lanes.

 

[bpgt64]

I am totally fine with them using an intel NIC, realtek is crap.

 

[cdawall]

I am totally fine with them using an intel NIC, realtek is crap.

Everything should use Intel nic. It is literally atrocious that someone would release a wired nic that has substantial packet loss issues.

 

[bug]

Yeah, that is what I said. Chip as in CPU. Those how chipset is something seperate in that statement feeding off of the last 4 PCIe lanes.

Ah, ok then. Still, the count seems rather low (it's still 4 more lanes than Intel, so there's that). With PCIe SSDs becoming more common, soon we'll need more.

 

[cdawall]

Ah, ok then. Still, the count seems rather low (it's still 4 more lanes than Intel, so there's that). With PCIe SSDs becoming more common, soon we'll need more.

This isn't a HEDT platform it is mainstream. If and when AMD releases something to compete with 2011v3 it will have the additional lanes you speak of. As it sits now however this is to compete with 115x and as you said it has more lanes than the Intel it competes against.

It is also enough lanes for a single pci-e SSD and two video cards. What more are you wanting?

 

[bug]

It is also enough lanes for a single pci-e SSD and two video cards. What more are you wanting?

The ability to add a M2 SSD without losing two SATA ports. And going forward, motherboards with 6+ M2 slots and no SATA.

 

[cdawall]

The ability to add a M2 SSD without losing two SATA ports. And going forward, motherboards with 6+ M2 slots and no SATA.

M.2 NVMe doesn't affect SATA, M.2 SATA will always kill SATA ports, unless they wire in less physical ports. These boards shouldn't touch the SATA ports they aren't the old style x2 10GB/s ports that use the chipset. These are independent lanes.

 

[YautjaLord]

Couldn't for a life of me find if 3000MHz, let alone 4000MHz (overkill, i know ) DDR4 RAM is supported, 2x16GB DDR4 modules come only in 2400 & 3000MHz flavors in 2 PC stores in my area. 4x4GB Corsair Dominator comes in 2666MHz plus it won't match the borad's colors: X370 Prof. Gaming is the one i eye-balling, as ASUS ROG AM4/X370 alternative in case & there won't be such thing as ROG X370 mobo in nature. lol

 

[bug]

Couldn't for a life of me find if 3000MHz, let alone 4000MHz (overkill, i know ) DDR4 RAM is supported, 2x16GB DDR4 modules come only in 2400 & 3000MHz flavors in 2 PC stores in my area. 4x4GB Corsair Dominator comes in 2666MHz plus it won't match the borad's colors: X370 Prof. Gaming is the one i eye-balling, as ASUS ROG AM4/X370 alternative in case & there won't be such thing as ROG X370 mobo in nature. lol

Of course you can't find that piece of info. The memory controller in in the CPU and the CPUs aren't available just yet

 

[TheGuruStud]

I wish it had 10Gb ethernet

Guess I'll go optical like another member did.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Couldn't for a life of me find if 3000MHz, let alone 4000MHz (overkill, i know ) DDR4 RAM is supported, 2x16GB DDR4 modules come only in 2400 & 3000MHz flavors in 2 PC stores in my area. 4x4GB Corsair Dominator comes in 2666MHz plus it won't match the borad's colors: X370 Prof. Gaming is the one i eye-balling, as ASUS ROG AM4/X370 alternative in case & there won't be such thing as ROG X370 mobo in nature. lol

Right now, Ryzen officially supports speeds up to 3200 MHz. There was some stability issues with the memory controller at first. That has since been worked out, but no word from AMD if they were able to get the "official" supported speeds up any higher. Rumors claim outside testers getting up to 3800 MHz.

 

[YautjaLord]

Right now, Ryzen officially supports speeds up to 3200 MHz. There was some stability issues with the memory controller at first. That has since been worked out, but no word from AMD if they were able to get the "official" supported speeds up any higher. Rumors claim outside testers getting up to 3800 MHz.

Probably under LN2, God that's tiring how slow paced that info gets in. Like i said til these hit store shelves, i'd have enough for case, x370 mobo & that 8c/16t beast. Probably can squeeze abit more moneyz for 3000MHz 2x16GB led rgb RAM as well.

 

[basco]

9 is a lot of phases for a small mb.
i hope this does not indicate the need for such a beefy VRM?

 

[Aquinus]

9 is a lot of phases for a small mb.
i hope this does not indicate the need for such a beefy VRM?

They can shrink the die and reduce voltage all day long but, if consumption remains the same (current increases,) you'll be wanting those extra phases when overclocking. Current is what makes electronics get hot.