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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well I am SuperDuper excited because I finally get to show you guys the world's first mini ITX am for motherboard for AMD risin this is the Biostar x 370gt it's finally here over a month after the initial release of horizon and I know world's first sounds a little click baby and it might be but I think this is valid this is the first publicly available for purchase a m4 mini ITX board at least to my knowledge honestly I think Rison is a really good fit for mini ITX for a couple reasons the first of which is that we can now build small form-factor systems with relatively affordable CPUs that are rockin more than four cores and eight threads right so before this motherboard the best we could do on this form factor was the 7700 K from Intel with 4 cores 8 threads and I guess you could count the x99 asrock motherboard that was mini ITX however it was just awkward as hell it had some weird compatibility quirks when it came to the CPU cooler not to mention it was incredibly expensive I think it's still retailing for around 250 bucks which is just outrageous not to mention the price that you're going to have to pay for an LGA 2011 processor with you know eight cores 16 threads when you can get one on the rise inside of things for much cheaper the other nice thing about Mini ITX a m4 is that Rison currently offers a number of 65 watt TDP parts that are very power efficient and don't require a ton of cooling so when you're dealing with a small form-factor case and you're often limited by how big your CPU cooler is or can be it's nice to just be able to throw on one of the stock coolers that comes included with those 65 watt CPUs and just be good to go you can even dial in some nice overclocks with like the wraith spire or the wraith max and that's obviously going to save me some money too on a third-party aftermarket CPU cooler so that's awesome but let's get down to some of the specs and features of the motherboard itself that's why we're here first of which I'm going to address the elephant in the room which is the X 370 chipset we've all sort of been scratching our heads since catching wind of this board because there are several features of X 370 that simply can't be utilized on this form factor for instance you get 2 additional PCIe gen 2 general purpose lanes over B 350 but where are those going to go I mean apart from the 4 lanes that's eaten up the m2 slot on the back of the motherboard which is nice it does supports data and PCIe of course and then that's pretty much it so those the rest of the PC aliens that you get with that with this chipset are sort of wasted there additionally with just one PCIe gen3 by 16 slot you can't really take advantage of x3 70s other notable feature which is SLI support so I don't exactly know why we need it on a mini ITX board but there you have it and I mean it's not like it's hurting the product unless manufacturers are charging a premium over be 350 equivalents that effectively do the same thing and Biostar is slated to start selling a be 350 version of this board for like 10 to 20 bucks less so I would consider opting for that board assuming it overclocks and supports memory as good as this one that being said for the mere 110 bucks that I paid for this board I wouldn't knock anyone for buying it because it's already pretty affordable taking a look at the rest of the board though we've got our beautiful a m4 socket flanked by the vrm which I really know nothing about at this point I do know that it does have a heatsink on it that is RGB the LEDs can be disabled most importantly you can configure the the color in the operating system or in the BIOS now one interesting thing about this motherboard is that it comes fitted with a four pin CPU power connector as opposed to the traditional 810 that we typically see on gaming centric mini ATX motherboards so the question there is does that impact or affect our ability to overclock Rison in any way and the short answer is watch the rest of the video because I will be answering just that you get to DIMM slots on the board supporting up to 32 gigs of DDR 4 at 3200 megahertz if you overclock and with the memory kit that I have here which is a G scale flare X ddr4 kit that's a 16 gigabyte kit at 3200 I was able to hit that rated frequency no problem of course you have to go into the BIOS and dial in your timings and your voltage yourself do all that manually just like you have to do with all the existing am4 boards for the most part but we're running at 3200 which is a big deal because of the significant impact that fast memory has on rising gaming performance and its really nice to see that the first and currently the only Mini ITX same for motherboard is able to do this and run it at that frequency just above the DIMM slots you get your only two system fan headers which are four pin PWM although I do wish there was a third one that's okay though based on the price point it's a fairly entry-level board I know and if you're rocking an AO they generally have some fan headers coming off of them some fan cables to connect your radiator fans or the worst case mirror you could always use a fan splitter or something like that next to the fan headers you get a pair of 5050 RGB headers which is pretty cool if you want to bling out your system and then if we work our way over to the bottom right corner of the board we get four SATA six ports which are all natively controlled by the X 370 chipset and those are kind of sandwich a single 20 pin USB 3.0 header you also get one USB 2.0 header on the board as well on the rear i/o you'll find a single ps2 port 5 USB 3.0 ports which is quite generous a single dual link DVI and HDMI out which you cannot use with Rison because Rison does not have nigp you so these are really meant for the upcoming AP use on a m4 that should be here relatively soon I don't know exactly when we're dropping but we should see some pretty cool HT PC builds using those so that's exciting there's also an Ethernet LAN port and your usual fanfare of 3.5 millimeter audio jacks and optical s/pdif out now before we discuss the kind of overclock I was able to hit with this board let's quickly go over the testing hardware starting with the CPU I chose the Rison v 1600 X which has six cores and twelve threads it's also a 95 watt TDP part I wanted it to be 95 watt and not 65 watt just to test the power limitations of that 4 pin CPU power connector the CPU itself is being cooled by a corsair h 110 i GT which is a 280 millimeter radiator a IO and it is totally overkill for the 1600 X in my opinion however I did not want to be limited by I don't want to be thermally limited in this test for overclocking and stuff so that's going to do a nice job of that we've also got the 16 gig G scale flare X ddr4 32 hundred megahertz kit that we already discussed for our video card we have the gtx 1070 mini from gigabyte seemed appropriate for this board which were running at the factory default speeds out of the box our boot drive is the adata SX 900 SSD it's a 512 gig capacity drive and finally our power supply is the HX 750 watt from Corsair on that note let's talk about overclocking specifically were we limited in any way by that four pin CPU power connector well I'm happy to report that our 1600 X was able to hit 4.1 Hertz at one point four to five volts rock solid stable running a 264 for over an hour now and it's looking good guys it's looking real good it doesn't seem like we're running into any issues with that four pin CPU connector when it comes to rise in overclocking so just to reiterate we got four point one gigahertz on the 1600 X our ddr4 kit is running at 3200 mega Hertz these are the same frequencies that I've been able to hit on high-end X 370 motherboards that are full ATX form factor so all together I mean that's that's almost I think that's good enough for me that does it for me I don't feel like there's really any compromise here apart from not being able to sli or you know limited em two slots so you still get one but still overall this is a fantastic board and I would recommend it if you're in the market for a small form-factor a m4 system also because it's your only option at this point so hopefully more boards like this are to come in the near future and I'm going to be building a system with this specific board so be sure to stay subscribed or get subscribe to the channel so you don't miss that it's going to be really cool but that's gonna do it for now guys let me know what you think of this mobo down in the comments below and feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it I've also left a link to this motherboard in the description so you can check it out if you want to buy it I'm not sure if it's sold out still or if it's back in stock but I'll leave links down there you can check it out also feel free to subscribe to bit wit ultra for a buck 50 a month it's my early access ad-free channel you can back out any time the first two weeks are completely free as always guys I'm Khaled with thanks again for watching have a good one and I'll see y'all in the next video