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we are back from CES obviously but still covering the show and we've still got about five videos following this one to go up with show coverage so it's been a big week for us this time we are talking about some more am4 motherboards this time from asrock biostar and Maxon we've already covered MSI and gigabyte so you can check the channel for that coverage before getting to the new am for motherboards that this video is brought to you by cyber power and their cyber XL gaming pc which has an invertible motherboard tray layout you can learn more in the description below so as we've said a few times now there are three main chipsets for the am4 platform that would be x3 70 of the high-end B 350 of the mid-range area and then a 320 at the low end which would be about equivalent to an a 68 previously and then there's the extra X 300 chipset which is not so much a chipset as just a chip used for security boot it doesn't really do any i/o functions that is going to be on the Mini ITX motherboards we did not see any of those I don't think anyway on the show there were a lot of motherboards I did not see any mini ITX so for today we're talking about the let's start with the Macs on board this is a Chinese brand you probably don't really hear about it in the US but they had one or two boards at the AMD booth at CES pretty straightforward eight pin power header it looks like a total of six phases that might I don't know if that's a 4 plus 2 or 5 plus 1 because we there were no representatives there but six total phases it looks like the rest of the specs were the well actually the most immediately interesting thing that you noticed looking at the board is something that AMD didn't want to talk to me about the board says that it supports quote an AMD s3 radiator so from what I understand there will be a couple of different cooling solutions for AMD CPUs we'll have a separate video on this the s3 radiator as the motherboard would suggest probably is a liquid cooler and I would have to imagine that as 3 would be for the higher-end SKUs from the maybe rise in 8 core 16 thread SKUs or something else I'm not sure what but it's going to be a liquid cooler of some kind probably some kind of AMD made or branded device anyway knows which vendor could be cool it or a Sutekh or coolermaster any of them but that's kind of interesting on just a side point the rest of the specs to the board it looks like four SATA 3 ports so that would be your six gigabits per second there's USB 3.1 gen2 on support and just again to kind of reiterate USB 3.1 gen2 on there are some differences from just saying USB 3.0 but for the most part it is a nomenclature change there a couple of differences but the speed is the same so it's so about five gigabits per second 4.8 something like that there's a clear CMOS button there's a comport for some reason I guess well it's a Chinese board and they tend to have more of those on there because if they're selling to market in China then there's there's reason to actually support there's older interfaces to m dot 2 ports and those are PCIe X 2 so they're a bit lower in terms of the lane assignment and then there's one that's a two three as far as Biostar Biostar has a couple of GT series boards they're racing boards with checkered flags and things like that which I guess isn't that much worse than like gaming boards that are everywhere the GT boards are in gt3 five or seven I'm not sure which one we were looking at but it is a be 350 board the GT 7 board is an X 370 layout so this is either 5 or 3 that we saw in person did not have a rep or labeling on the board to tell us which one specifically but it looks like a total of seven phases maybe six for the CPU and maybe one for the GPU something like that it does include push buttons for modes that are called eco and sport and then it's got a reset and power button on the board as well so eco and sport probably requires software to trigger it's normally some kind of pre OC and some kind of lowered voltage option there's a multi BIOS toggle switch which is interesting don't see those too much on the mid-range and low-end boards and then there's something called a 50-50 RGB LED ports and that's near the USB 3.0 header so I guess we can't escape LEDs they will be on this board as well or at least supported externally speaking of the USB 3 header there are solder points for a second USB 3 header that's kind of interesting there's one on here but it's not the only board that Oh is multiple USB three front panel connector options so that does look to be the way that things are going this looks like it might be the same PCB that's used for the actually seventy board which we didn't see and if it is that slot might be populated as rock as our CAD four main motherboards at the CES event in total but I think we only saw three at AMD suite or booth or whatever you call it they had the X 370 taiichi the X 370 gaming k4 and the be 350 gaming k4 and then an a320 M pro for the M signifying that it is micro ATX not full ATX the k4 in the X 370 models both have the fatality branding with red and black coloring the X 370 Tai Chi sort of a higher-end board for the lineup from asrock it has a ton of inductors I'm not sure exactly what the phase design is at this time it's a lot it looks like about 16 total inductors so whether that's total phases or they're doing some kind of doubling or something like that I'm not clear on right now seems to use the same reinforced PCIe slots that we're seeing on everything now even though a couple of companies are trying to patent it good luck with that at this point PCIe slots are wired if you look at them closely the full-length PCIe slots are wired for x16 x8 and x4 and it does look like it has some sort of muxing capabilities to make multi-gpu more more compatible I suppose with the Lane availability the asrock purity sound marketing language is present on the motherboard eight SATA ports 4x4 m dot 2 lanes using the ultra m2 slot a seven segment display and then my favorite part is the giant Intel logo on the side of the board which is four Gigabit Ethernet next as rocks got the X 370 Pro gaming fatality motherboard this also looks like a 16 total power phase design through the inductors at least we'd have to probe it to really know more it's got a single power connector so even though it's got this insane VRM whether or not it's actually good we'll see but huge vrm still eight pins for the power which on the MSI titanium motherboard the X power board we saw that was an eight plus for some curious to see how much that actually matters in overclocking PCIe reinforcement again on the X 370 Pro gaming fatality to full I'm about two slots one of which at least is rated for PCIe gen3 by four and then the slots are again wired for x16 x8 next for in PCIe and also looks like there might be a multiplexer on the board might be the same board as the Taichi just with different colors and a few different soldered on items SM DS and things like that but the board itself looks pretty much the same and we're down to just two left there's the gaming k4 which is a be 350 chipset this will be a cheaper board looks like something maybe 1/8 plus one set up for something like that and it's got again a reinforced PCIe slot there's just one of them assignments x16 the other is just x4 so there's no x8 here but with be 350 you can't really do multi-gpu anyway so it doesn't matter the m-dot 2 slots are present in the form of at least one using PCIe gen3 4x4 lanes there's two total m2 slots looks like six SATA three slots or ports and then it's a single GPU motherboard pretty basic finally the a 320m pro 4 is another asrock board this one is micro ATX it has four dimm slots not quite many ITX so they can fit more on there another 8 pin power connector for the CPU there's a very cleanly hidden RGB LED pin out at the top so I think that's becoming somewhat standardized at this point where it can support at least the external strips that you plug into the board if it doesn't come with its own 4 SATA ports one USB 3 header and 2 m dot two slots on the motherboard and that covers it so that's what we had for all of the am 4 boards that I'm aware of that we're at CES we covered gigabyte we covered MSI previously there are two other MSI boards we didn't talk about in the video but we've got some discussion and articles on gamers Nexus net and now we've got asrock biostar and Mac's on so that about covers it check back we'll still be posting 2 days 2 videos a day for at least a few days now because we've got a lot packed up from CES as always subscribe for more patreon link emotional video links the description below Meishan thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you