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ITX is a special kind of form factor I mean sure they include compromises us any downsized would but when done right I TX pcs can look elegant and boasts tons of power you all know this a sous nailed it here with their ro G Strix x47 Ti and gaming they went after the fantastic chipset capable of handling eight cores and 16 threads in such a small space is incredible and stable memory overclocking which is a big thing with rise in 2nd gen well put all three to the test in this video but first a run-through of the board's IO and features let's start first with the rear i/o and work our way around fan hubs and drive support near the top you'll find an HDMI port good for Raven Ridge ap use at this point still nice to have that onboard flexibility for USB 3.1 gen2 on port slate just below that followed by two USB 3.1 gen2 ports the big difference here these four cap at five gigabits per second and these two capitán and until rj45 port resides here as well you'll find AC Wi-Fi to the south along with built-in Bluetooth and LED illuminated audio jacks boasting the quote supreme FX s 1228 codec and dual operational amplifiers on a secondary PCB in typical Asus fashion this is definitely overkill I'm counting only three PWM fan headers here and they're all situated above the CPU socket I would have liked to have seen maybe then spread out just a bit more along the edge of the board also three is just not enough for an overkill ITX PCB though I imagine space was a serious concern here this thing is pretty dense with features a soos managed to cram the eight pin all the way into the immediate upper left-hand corner of the board this is actually an ideal spot and follow suit with traditional ATX counterparts and though it might be difficult in some ATX cases to actually connect the eight pin to this header to the right of the fan headers you'll find a two RGB LED strip ports one is certainly necessary but I feel as though this add-on header here should really be replaced with a fourth fan hub most RGB kits include splitters anyway so I wouldn't be as concerned with LEDs as I would be with fan support at this point two Ram slots run along the right side of the board with an array of boot status LEDs aligned and just above this is like dr debug on a simpler scale and can be very useful when diagnosing troublesome Hardware the 24-pin connector laid just to the south along with iö and speaker headers if you're into hearing beeps every time you boot your PC there aren't many SATA 3 ports on this board I'm counting for all of them upward-facing and only two of them are planted along the right side of the board Asus have also managed to cram both USB 2 and USB 3 headers under this board with just enough space on the bottom right corner for the stand off and screw there are two MDOT two ports on this board as well the one integrated into the sound card runs with four PCIe lanes and can also be used with SATA drives the second one located on the back of the board is PCIe only so you can't use SATA MDOT 2 drives with this back port here in case you're wondering why your drive isn't being read by the way if you're wondering where the HD audio port resides it's right here built into the second PCB layer and wedged under the Wi-Fi card cable management might be an issue with this one and it'll look pretty weird having a cable run above everything below it I actually made it to squeeze mine between this up upward heat spreader here and kept things a little more concealed by the way in case you're interested in an array of RGB LEDs runs down the right side of the board along the back for a subtle under glow in most cases it actually looks pretty great the Strix logo centered below the CPU socket also lights up though it's more subdued overall I think this is one of the sexiest I TX boards on the market not just from an LED standpoint but also from a heatsink and just overall aesthetic appeal point of view this it's just a good-looking board nothing anyone's gonna deny that so that's a rundown of the motherboards features and now let's talk overclocking thermals and stability you'll find six power phases to the left of the socket with a fairly large AVR a mosfet heatsink to keep things nice and cool and while this is nothing in comparison to some of the dual eight pin EPS x4 70 ATX motherboards on the market six phases should be plenty in this form factor for decent overclocks or a native XFR and we've proven that here power consumption and delivery as well we'll reveal shortly more comparable to ATX counterparts so there's no unneeded power draw from a smaller form factor the CPU we used to run our test was the horizon 7 2700 the lower TDP brother of the 2700 x in all reality it's actually the better buy in my book overclocking differences if existent at all are minimal and even exif are to boost and bring the cheaper chip to within 5 percent or so of the competition from Forman standpoint the only tangible thing you're really forgoing here is the beefier prism cooler again if you're buying an aftermarket cooler doesn't matter but if you're using the stock cooler that could be the difference for ram we're using a 16 gigabyte kit of team group Nighthawk RGB modules so there are rising specific kits who can buy for optimal overclocking support but I'm using these to prove a point that Rison second gen cpus have significantly higher memory frequency tolerances conducive in the gamers case to higher frame rates thanks to infinity fabric dependencies i used a deep cool captain 240 X to keep temps in check the black color scheme going on here is looking especially sexy in my book the Strix x4 70 eyes accents are the icing on the cake I do recommend however running other fans in your case to actively cool your VRMs things were perfectly fine in the NZXT h200 eye with an exhaust fan at the back manual overclocking even up to 4.2 gigahertz across all cores yielded some of the best of erm temps i've ever seen in an ITX motherboard these were confirmed by the way both by manually probing and in software and the transitioning soundly into our next topic overclocking I didn't notice any immediate hiccups reaching 4.2 gigahertz I literally hopped into BIOS all Asus biases are pretty much the same at this point and I love that they're all very just uniform you can expect to have the same bios regardless of which chips that you're going for whether it be on Intel site or AMD side hitting 4.2 gigahertz straight up and I also boosted the DRAM frequency I'm pretty sure I just activated XMP and then straight up reset saving those features sure enough confirmed 4.2 gigs across all cores it was a piece of cake with this board here to be clear though you may not even want to overclock XF r2 does a pretty excellent job scaling core frequencies with workload and some cores might actually hit higher than four point two gigahertz especially when you're gaming in the game is only utilizing maybe four cores max so you might actually get a higher framerate using just X of R 2 and not manually overclocking that's subject for a different video but for now if you want to overclock you certainly can with this board another major concern of any Rison one serious CPU was memory overclocking even just hitting out-of-the-box ram frequencies was a challenge with my 1700 X X n people to turn on regardless of the motherboard or memory kit used but with the 12 nanometer stuff things have dramatically improved I discussed a lot of this in my 2700 X review check out right here but in a nutshell you aren't likely to deal with the same memory overclocking issues and this time around and that's definitely a good thing Maya nighthawk Ram kit hit thirty-two hundred megahertz without a hitch and that's actually overclocked just a bit on the asus strix x4 70 i gaming I imagine things would be the same for other kids as well speaking of which let's throw this g.skill tried and seek it into the mix same thing so yeah no problems reaching up to thirty six hundred megahertz with this board which is actually higher than the advertised frequency limit on the box so very impressed here not gonna complain at all so you can probably tell I'm pretty happy with the sports performance and its features now it comes in at around 200 USD which is fair I think considering the quality and attention to detail here one of the best I think on the market x4 70 eye boards my only qualms 3 fan hubs and an awkward HD audio location 2 small details that aren't likely to sway you one way or the other also when I overclocked I didn't touch the voltage preset so it was set to auto and I watched how this motherboard was managing voltage throughout different workloads and it actually did pretty well it was around a comfortable range I think I would have said it to myself so some of them tend to just throw way too much voltage this one didn't do that and I was surprised because a lot of them in the past half so two possibly new BIOS revision took care of that but just something to check out if you decide to buy this board and a 2700 or 2700 X 4 now if you want a board like the one you've seen in this video check the links in the video description for several aces X 470 motherboards in various form factors from I TX all the way up to full sized ATX if you're looking to build a small and compact a core 16 thread machine though with a reliable and clean looking motherboard this one right here the RG Strix x4 70 I gaming is the one that I would get it gets two thumbs up in my book and for obvious reasons let me know what you think down below in the comments section give this video a thumbs up you thought it was cool dislike it if you feel like disliking it or you hate everything about life you can click that red subscribe button by the way if you haven't already - stay tuned for more content like this this is science studio thanks for learning with us