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our Computex trip is brought to you by fantex schoolmaster containment what's up guys to meet you and our connect and the very exciting motherboard across our eyes as we are passing by Azeroth so this is an ex 299 ITX motherboard and that's exciting promotional reasons one was this particular motherboard we have six SATA connections and that's very rare to find on an IT expert usually we get like two or four but for this platform before going for like something storage related server related on this form factor is really cool next we have three m dot two slots the one is right beside the socket and two underneath the motherboard next we have four sodium's locks so you can blow up the memory you can occupy them all saturate all your memory saturate all your drive storage and saturate all your SATA connections too and if you notice there to sort of revamp the entire layout of where things are located so ok I'm going to step in here because the microphone wasn't doing such a good job picking up the audio on the show floor but this board is not simply a proof of concept it will actually go and sale in just a few weeks so did a drug have to make any sacrifices to fit such a large socket on such a small board of course but we were totally surprised by how capable this little guy really is it's actually pretty funny to see the new 2066 socket that's taking up so much room on that PCB now aside from needing so the memory you will also need to give up x2 99s capability for a huge number of PCIe slots since the ITX form factor only allows for a single x16 slot other connectivity comes with a dual band wireless AC Wi-Fi interface and native support for front and rear panel USB 3.1 gen2 and so far this model may be one of the smallest motherboards we have seen at Computex but it's also one the most exciting one still because it is X 299 in this ITX form factor okay but the next unique motherboard we saw it as rock is the H 110 Pro BTC plus as you can see it has a massive 13 PCIe slots and it is based off a very affordable chipset so what is going on here well as Rock shows off wacky stuff every year but this one may actually be pretty convenient for some people and as the name suggests this board specifically targets buyers who mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or litecoin and the idea is to give them expensive board that can run a large number of miners all running concurrently in a single system and obviously this motherboard has been in development for quite some time since the H 110 is a bit as a bit old but we think it fits the H 110 Pro BTC plus market perfectly and someone can easily buy inexpensive used skylake processor pop it in and use the CPUs onboard graphics and with that configuration all 16 PCIe lanes from the processor can be dedicated towards providing data for the motherboards 13 slots and asrock even provided in the supplementary molex power input to ensure all those slots receive enough power there are of course some limitations here to do to large number of slots a single slot add-in cards need to be used also we have to remember that a lot of cryptocurrencies mining has moved away from traditional pcie-based adding cards towards more efficient dedicated a6 and these days it's almost impossible to achieve profitability with GPU based mining and there aren't any pcie-based Asics yet so we have to wonder whether or not this motherboard is a great idea that's simply based on an older outdated strategy and so that's it for azrog the mining board and super-tiny x 299 both are relevant on the market today but let us know which one you are excited for the most in the comments as usual continue to follow us for more content from coputex don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you in next video