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bill its coverage of copy text 2019 is brought to you by fantex Coolermaster gigabyte enter max team group NZXT and corsair to learn more about our sponsors click on the links below we're here to asrock booth and i'm taking a look at this beautiful bastard the X 570 aqua this is gonna be sold in limited edition quantities 999 units available with a nice level branding there if you can sort of geek out and show up to your friends but it's got nine hundred and ninety nine dollar price tag that's right a cool grand for this board but you can kind of see why they actually have an integrated water block from Coolermaster actually who designed the water block as well as this aluminum housing here which is beautiful there's a water block on the x5 70 chipset as well as the CPU and the entire vrm solution which is absolutely phenomenal the other cool thing about this board is that supports Wi-Fi 6 which is pretty common for all the x5 70 board so far but even cooler than that is the support for Thunderbolt 3 and I'm sorry it's really dark in this little corner here but Thunderbolt 3 is supported generally you only see the support on Intel boards but now we're seeing it creep its way into the new AMD platform which is super exciting being able to drive so much data through a single cable whether you're talking video or USB any kind of connectivity like that very exciting so from azrog I can't wait to see this guy in action we also have something a bit more mainstream this is the x5 70 creator 10 face power delivery here it's actually 10 plus 2 do you have a fan here on the on the on the chipset along with 2 m2 PCIe gen gen 4x4 slots you can see it's a bit more bare-bones there's no RGB which i think is actually kind of a plus in some cases and there's no like cover here for the IO shield or for the IO area of course we do have the x5 70 Pro which is definitely a bit more targeted to gamers is also a 10 + 2 phase power design we also have 1 & 2 m dot 2 slots PCIe Jen for and down here this is actually pretty exciting the x5 70 M throw for this is the first and only x4 x5 70 micro ATX motherboard that we've seen here at Computex no other vendor is actually making these right now the motherboard vendors are actually following the trends of the case vendors to see what kind of form factor motherboards they can be making most and right now there's kind of a dearth of really cool micro ATX cases so this is the only one however if you are all about the micro ATX form factor which I certainly am they do have the five seventy empro for here if you want something even more compact we have the x5 70 phantom gaming ITX TV three TV three against any four Thunderbolt 3 which means yes you can actually connect Thunderbolt 3 to the back here there it is it should be there it is ok it's really hard to see back here Thunderbolt 3 right there I'm kind of like the the design I wish they went more color neutral instead of having red accents that would have been a little bit more forgiving on people who want to truly customize the look of their systems you get a fan it's kind of slanted kind of fan of slant at on the X 570 chips up there which is connected to the vrm heatsink here by way of heat pipe so this is providing active cooling not just to the chipset but the BRM as well of course you've got an additional heatsink up here to DIMM slots ddr4 with higher speeds than we saw on X 470 and if you look at the socket itself it's actually really interesting they're using a non-traditional LGA 1151 socket mounting system here for CPU coolers that I was like what the heck it's because on a traditional a m4 socket it actually takes up a lot more space to have to have the mounting hole situated like this and so when a mini ITX form factor as ROC said they would have had to compromise and sacrifice certain features by putting the standard a m4 socket mounting solution onto this board so instead they decided to do something really wild and throw some LGA 1151 action in there pretty interesting next up we have the x5 70 phantom gaming 4 which is sort of the ATX version of the Mini ITX board we just saw I'm not going to talk too much about that a little bit more interesting is the x5 70 phantom gaining access is one of their flagship boards you have tons of RGB lighting again with the red accents not sure what that's about but this actually gets a 12 plus 2 phase power design with dr. Moss so that's going to be a higher quality MOSFETs increased efficiency and lower thermals overall fantastic board if you're going to overclock additionally have the x5 70 Taichi you guys are all familiar with this series I love the actual designs here they're talking about a next revision actually incorporating this sort of steampunk wheel to be spinning I think that would look pretty sweet of course you have a very nice RGB aesthetic again 12 + 2 face power design here 12 for the CPU 2 for the memory controller upgraded connections for the EPS 12-volt connectors 8 8 + 4 pin I don't believe this is this is not part of the the patient solution but this is this aluminum heatsink certainly is heat pipe in between both of those and yeah damn this is I think this is their their actual flagship mainstream board it cannot if you're not counting the X 570 aqua all these words from as rocks are looking extremely promising and the fact that they're coming out with so many x5 seventy boards on launch for the riser 3000 series just shows how confident they are in AMD's next-gen platform very exciting stuff