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everyone read that as rock booth now a copy tax 2019 as rocks got a bunch of Acts five seventy boards the main one is not on the wall right now but we have a bunch of b-roll of it it's the Aqua board and then we also took one of the board's apart for builds ready to do a PCB analysis and PRM analysis while we're at the show so definitely check back for his BRM analysis but we're hopefully gonna take apart one other board italy to be the ITX board or the tai chi not sure which if we haven't done it by the time this video goes up then let us know what you care about more before that this video is brought to you by Corsairs iron claw RGB wireless gaming mouse the corsair iron claw focuses first on comfort with its palm grip approach and also uses a sub 1 millisecond wireless connection for the pc you can toggle between wireless and Bluetooth connectivity making it easy to control multiple pcs with one mouse like a stream and PC and a gaming PC the mouse has 10 programmable buttons the pmw 30 391 18000 DPI sensor 3 zone RGB LEDs and fifty million click lifespan for left and right mouse buttons learn more at the link in the description below so first off the pricing we don't have pricing on anything just yet release day it's gonna be July 7th when the horizon 3000 stuff comes out but we can't talk about the specs so a lot of these boards have a similar or the same piece of erm design and the for example gaming acts which is up there the phantom gave me an axe at the top of the wall and the Taichi share of erm so they use a 12 plus 2 design they have 50 amp power stages not 100% clear on the brand we've heard IR for this but I know they're also using a lot of TR moss and inter-cell stuff and then it's got an inner sill controller on it the ITX board obviously has a different vrm that's a 6 + 2 don't know the spec on the power stages but what I can tell you is that it's got TB 3 in the name because it supports Intel Thunderbolt 3 which was as rocks primary marketing point it was something you care about it is on the board and it's one of the first or only boards in its form factor that supports Thunderbolt 3 speaking of form factor no micro ATX boards sorry MSI and gigabyte did not have any either we'll keep an eye out but for micro ATX fans we haven't seen any yet of the show ITX does appear to be a bit more popular this year than last time the Aqua is worth talking about specifically that one's going to be a limited edition design so they're making 999 of them they are going to cost 999 dollars probably 99 cents but they I don't think they're making point 99 board's either so the aqua is a it's kind of like the extreme water forest where it's just a water block on the card it's a mono block but it also cools the chipset and the chipset cooling is a bigger challenge with X 570 because it runs at 11 watts average or 15 watts peak and it doesn't really down clock or slow down for a thermal reason so you'll need a fan on just about every board some of them can sink it passively but not many and then the hawk will just do water equally it's a it's a halo product I mean that's like same people who buy the extreme water for us will buy that board not meant for everyone but we do have info on that one so the aqua has a unique design it's using a different PCB from the others on the wall here 12 + 2 inner cell it's got 50 amp power stages 60 amp chokes and then also Thunderbolt 3 the Creator we have a separate video going up on with the PCB analysis that's the one that we disassembled here it's using a 3/5 201 controller and then we've got some close-up photos of the power stages as well as for the Tai Chi Tai Chi is probably gonna be the one that is more interesting for the overclocking part of the audience although it's not the the highest of the high end that asrock has it is I'm on the higher end boards along with the gaming axe so Tai Chi is primarily just going to be another higher-end X 570 board they're all pretty expensive this time because the chipset cost is so high and also Gen 4 not easy it turns out the PCB quality has had to go up on these boards some of them to deal with the signal integrity challenges that come with PCIe Gen 4 so that is a cost driver is the PCB quality along with the chipset cost I think that's most of the info I have for you on the asrock boards hopefully the b-roll has suited you well and will help you see some of the smaller features because we are getting crowded out of the booth one last they know what I mentioned the ITX board does something really cool which is it uses an Intel mount so it's an AMD board but an Intel set of mounting holes for the CPU cooler which is very interesting the reason is so that asrock can push in the the mounting point and avoid the keep out zone restrictions that AMD mounts have so that's something that's just kind of unique it'll be a bit confusing I'm sure when you're buying the boards but you know now thanks for watching check back subscribe for more x5 70 coverage let us know if there's anything specific you want here at the show we'll go find it and a store doc gave us access on that that was that directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time