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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 at the gigabyte booth gigabyte booth say hi wave hi you look really weird you lose so awkward what a little weirdo alright so this is an x5 70 motherboard this is the thing I'm most excited to talk about here at Computex 2019 is all the exercise 70 goodness this new platform from AMD featuring their new horizon 3000 series processors there's actually a rising 3rd gen Zen 2 chip underneath this big cooler here but they won't tell me what kind it is I'm wondering if it's a 16 core that'd be pretty awesome but since we can't talk about that right now let's talk about the thing underneath it which is a PCI Express MDOT two nvme expansion card if I can just no guess oh there we go okay cool sorry it's super reflective I can't remove this stupid acrylic panel so basically we've got four m2 nvme slots alright that's support PCIe gen 4 so that gives us an incredible amount of bandwidth that is giving us 15,000 megabits per second read and write approximately which is absolutely insane now they actually tested this with for populated drives on an Intel platform Z 390 board and it only recognizes two of the drives because it's just simply not enough and with with PCIe gen3 this is really where it's that I mean aim D did some demos with graphics cards showing you know the bandwidth that's available on PCIT gen 4 but it doesn't really make a lot of sense right now because even PCIe gen3 isn't being fully saturated by most GPUs these days on the other hand nvme Drive can certainly take advantage of that extra Headroom additionally also worth noting that you can do up to 8 terabytes of storage total so they have 4 2 terabyte drives populating this guy right now which is insane I like the backplate to that's cool it's a bit more of an extreme solution of course or if you're a bit more reasonable or have a more limited budget like myself we have a single SSD right there and nvme that's the Auris and VM a Gen 4 SSD 2 terabyte drive nice big copper heat sink for thermal connectivity goodness and even with that single driver still getting a very respectable 5 gigabytes read and write or if I gigabytes read and about 4200 megabits per second right jeez okay now we're gonna do X 570 boards here this is this is the bee's knees right here and this is the X 570 or s Pro Y 5 Mini ITX right now only gigabyte and Asus are making x5 70 boards in this form factor mainly because the x5 70 chipset gets sobering and hot it's kind of hard to cool it on a such a small surface area like this but by god they've done it look at that little fin so cute they've got two laters I'm here this is actually completely metal I thought this was plastic at first but that's just for extra heat dissipation that's actually coming straight from where the MOSFETs are so this whole thing is designed to keep the X 570 chips that cool and apparently according to gigabytes doing a bang-up job we also have two DIMM slots right there ddr4 which can get much higher speeds than we saw on X 470 and lots of connectivity this is a fully featured board apparently big things do come in small packages and look at the i/o here yo yo we actually have plenty of USB 3 USB 3.1 gen2 type-c Wi-Fi onboard very essential for a mini ITX port dual hdmi and displayport out and I believe that's a Gigabit Ethernet LAN don't quote me on that though these are more of the mid-range boards X 570 horas Pro we've got the X 570 horas ultra and the horas master ok the master being the higher end one of the three now you're pretty much gonna scale upwards in terms of feature sets it may be a bit more flair when it comes to RGB lighting I'm not gonna focus too much on these boards but the one that I really did want to drive home is this guy the X 570 or extreme this is the very first time that Intel is actually bringing the extreme line of their motherboards to AMD this has previously been reserved for Intel but this board is absolutely insane it's completely over engineered you can see all of the cover plates that are on this thing are completely metallic they're actually there's no plastic on this thing pretty much whatsoever and it's actually a functional purpose and although it does look very nice it's actually helping to keep the X 570 chips that cool and what's very special about this board is that since it's using heat sinks as opposed to fans it doesn't have any active cooling this is completely passive and you know like like pretty much any fan they're eventually going to fail at some point so it's just kind of guarantees the longevity of the board overall excellent cooling they've even thrown in a full blown back plate on this thing oh I forgot to mention there's actually a back plate on the the mini ITX port - I'm sure Chris will get a biro shot of that but we have a very nice Finn's back here this is actually a true heatsink and that's just some really really fancy looking thing that looks cool RGB right there I think is that are you know that's actually just used to your design okay nevermind I actually kinda like the blacked out stealth look what shaking your head I see I see you lurking I see you lurking Oh Pedro shaking his head hey Pedro yeah Pedro if you guys follow the pcmasterrace I've read it he is he's he's the owner he's the moderator he created he you invented the PC master-race can I just shake your hand really quick sorry it's a left-handed shake cuz I block it with my right I love you Pedro steak will everyone go follow the pcmasterrace subreddit so basically this board is extremely insane I have no idea what the price point it's gonna be but it's going to be obviously more than these boards and not for the faint of heart but incredibly over-engineered also these boards are featuring full 16 phase power ok there's no doublers here like you see on competing boards so we're actually getting a true 16 phase power design board that's going to be exceptional for overclocking and enthusiasts all around also the i/o is oh my god it's a lot of Io ok you can just look at it I'm gonna talk about it just there that's a lot alright last thing about this board an I'll shut up look at the ports the ports on the side ok they're all right angle ok very clean it's gonna be great for cable management and I love the fact that the actual heatsink is covering it up completely which I would love to see this board installed in the full system too just to see how effective this cable routing strategy is very promising so far ok well there's a lot of other technology here at the gigabyte suite but none of it contains a mdx 570 so it doesn't really interest me all right let's go