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everyone we are at the AMD suite now at CES 2017 looking at some of the motherboards for the rise in CPUs that are forthcoming right now we're looking at gigabyte we already talked about the MSI motherboards and have a video on that if you're curious for more what are you walking through some of these some of the PCI configurations on each of these boards and get a better idea of the lane available availability and things like that before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by cyber power and there's cyber XL gaming PC will have a link in the description below if you're curious and want to learn more about their invertible motherboard layout let's start with this one this is the gaming the k5 this is an X 370 board as many of you likely know at this point the AMD chip sets for Rison are comprised of a x37 yet sort of the high end and then you go down to be 350 more mid-range and a 320 at the bottom end which is probably going to be the least popular among our type of audience there's sort of a side chipset called X 300 and this one is it's a little bit different we might talk about it more later but that's targeted more specifically for mini ITX motherboard so if you were an FX user or wanted to be an FX user and couldn't find a mini ITX motherboard this is supposed to solve that problem where the X 300 chipset is basically the size of a pinky net it's very small and all of the i/o is transacted through the CPU using the CPU lanes rather than relying on any chipset lanes with that said the first board the gaming k5 I don't have the official specs with me but it looks to be something like a seven or eight phase layout it might be a six plus one or something like that will talk to gigabyte more about this the memory and the PCIe slots have what most boards seem to be doing now which is the sort of metal plate reinforcements and that doesn't have four there's different reasons to use it on the memory verses on the PCIe on memory normally it's for something like additional ground points on PCIe it's for additional strength for people who rip it out of the socket or something but get into the board the x-37 a chip site will have a chart we put on the screen with some of the base i/o that you expect out of each chipset that covers USB 3 SATA Express things like that and before getting kind of cynical about SATA Express there's actually a reason to have it you can peel off those lands and use them for something else just because SATA Express is driven on PCIe and that bus so for the rest of the board pretty straightforward it's got a by 16 a by 8 and a by 4 slot so these three PCIe slots even though they're full-length they are wired electrically for 16 8 & 4 and then if you look really closely above the first PCIe slot there's a set of 4 chips which we also showed on the back the X power titanium from MSI those can MUX the signal for additional video cards let's move on to the next board this is the gigabyte X 370 gaming of 5 so no K on this one it's basically just got the white or s badging instead of the black or s badging and it is otherwise functionally mostly the same thing I suppose there's the difference actually we look closely at the at the choke so this might actually be 10 total phase board so it's got a bit a bit more going on there but we'll have to talk down there's also a killer Ethernet chip on there the rest of it is gonna be elf LED RGB differentiated as we saw with the gigabyte board we reviewed recently though this does have some of that as well because the or is branding as far as the heatsink and cooler support this is something probably important to note even though it's a different socket there's more pins and am4 it's something like 1331 pins off top my head whereas am3+ was 900 something so the sockets physically larger and that does mean that there are some changes to coolers but they're supposed to be support for that so the cooling manufacturers are in communication with AMD about this they're supposed to be making at least adapters or mounting brackets for future CPUs have not current ones that mostly covers that moving on to this board this is a micro ATX port it's not many I TX so we don't have the x300 chipset that I mentioned it is on the a320 chipset which is the lowest M SKU very basic board not really worth talking about a whole lot of it other than there's just PCIe x16 wired for x16 it looks like and to DIMM slots now the last board is another it's a V 350 board this is the game three from gigabyte and it's more simple looks like it's got something like seven total phases for the vrm maybe there's something like that and then none of the LEDs it's gonna be your more mid-range board probably in the 100 ish 100 130 range somewhere they're just kind of speculating but that covers it so that's the basics if you have if you are curious about the previous boards we looked at the MSI ones the link of the description below or in the post roll video we'll have one of those and as far as information CPU socket should be mostly compatible going forward the big important thing to note is that this will launch before March 31st have been given that information directly I don't know how long before but that's what we have for a window thank you for watching as always page on link the post all video to help us out directly link to the description below for more information I'll see you all next time you