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so you may be in the market for a be 350 motherboard or an X 370 motherboard however in the case of a mini ITX motherboard there exactly the same thing so this is a very odd dilemma one which we'll be talking about today besides the usual differences between these chipsets welcome back to tech es city this brand coming to you guys today with that video on a m4 platform and it's their newest architecture in 2017 from AMD now one thing they've done right this time around is they've generalized the platform and so you can use the upcoming AP use and also the CPUs all on the same motherboards as opposed to the Past where they actually had FM 2 sockets and am3+ sockets which did complicate things especially if you're in the market for a cheap CPU and you wanted to upgrade later to an 8 core CPU from AMD's lineup so that's a good thing that there's no more confusion there however they do have different chipsets the a320 the be 350 and also the X 370 and now the new X 3 9 9 which is a different actual socket altogether so X 399 will quickly get that out of the way with very expensive it's for the 1950 X which is that high-end desktop 16 core 32 threaded CPU and it does perform really well I've actually done a review on this I'll put the link up here and it's a really good CPU if you need a save time especially when it comes to productivity tasks however back to the main three in this video the a320 be 350 and X 370 now these are licenses that AMD license to the motherboard manufacturers for a certain price that which I am not sure of but I do know one thing it's generally cheaper there's less features you get for example the a320 will be cheaper than the be 350 and the v3 50 license will be cheaper than the X 370 and so what this enables the manufacturers to do is bring the cost down of motherboards in that certain bracket however when we look at the cost associated with the a320 motherboards they generally are the cheapest motherboards available and with that you do get two less PCIe gen two lanes than the be 350 platform and also for less PC Gentoo lanes then the X 370 platform you also do not get overclocking on the a320 architecture and also with that you get one less gen 3.1 USB port and now we're gonna take a look at the be 350 license and this is easily my favorite chipset of 2017 you get support for overclocking and you really get a host of different features that's really all you need for most gamers and even for people doing productivity you get four lanes of ddr4 memory that support sixty four gigabytes which is perfectly fine for 4k video editing you also get a 16 speed PC a three bus for your graphics card and also get support for m2 nvme however compared to the x3 70 you do get two less PCIe - gen lanes from the chipset and you also get less USB 3 I believe so those two features together you do get a little bit less than the X 370 however the average cost is something very interesting here when I tallied up on PC part picker be 350 motherboards I found the average cost to be $89 when we looked at the X 370 chipsets the average cost of a motherboard was a hundred and sixty three dollars so that's a difference of 74 dollars and then of course we coupled that with the risin 5 1600 for example you've got yourself a really good combo on a budget that just offers such good value for the money however not to discredit the X 370 license of course that's got all the features enabled for rise and three thousand five and rise and seven CPUs and I find in general though yes the motherboards on average are more expensive than be 350 motherboards in some cases the VRMs can be a lot better and you also get more overclocking features on an X 370 motherboard in general so one thing I found on a lot of be 350 motherboards not on all actually some do have this feature is of course the V root function which allows the voltage to stay at the same level that you set it at after the CPUs loaded it's also called load line calibration as well this feature is practically on every X 370 motherboard and when we make a comparison between two motherboards for example a be 350 pro 4 from asrock and also an X 370 Taichi from as rock one is $99 the other is a $99 currently what we see is we've got a six phase power delivery to the CPU versus a twelve phase on the X 370 variant not to mention the actual MOSFETs and parts used on the vrm are better in general so if you're into enthusiasts overclocking and you want to get really good over clocks out of your eyes at seven eight core for example then it is of course a better consideration to go with the next 370 motherboard one thing I'd like to see and one thing I'm curious about with be 350 motherboards is if that actual license has a limit on the amount of phases and components used on the VRMs because I'd love to see a be 350 motherboard that has a vrm like the Taichi implemented on it I think it'd be an absolute hit in terms of its popularity so now it's time to talk about that part that I hinted at in the intro the B 350 and X 370 Mini ITX motherboards now asrock were kind enough to send us out both these boards and I've already actually done a build with one that I bought in Japan using the Ragin tech metas I'll put the link to that build up here if you wish to check it out and also there's only three manufacturers currently in the mini-itx realm on a m4 that manufacture mini ATX motherboards that being biostar has rockin gigabyte and what i've noticed with these motherboards and especially when i was shopping for one in japan when I was doing the used parts hunts was that I couldn't actually find a physical difference between the B 350 and X 370 multiples since the be 350 license enabled all the features on the be 350 mini ITX board versus the X 370 in other words you were wasting features if you bought this license for a mini ITX board and it was quite ironic because when I asked the sales staff what were the difference they just quite simply said the X 370 was better without giving me a reason and then I actually asked asrock what is the difference between the b3 15 X 370 Mini ITX boards and they were honest enough to just reply and say nothing which confirm my suspicions and that is you're just simply paying for an X 370 license on these Mini ITX boards however looking at the be 350 Mini ITX board from asrock it's got all the features that I would need from a Mini ITX board hence why I picked it you've got that dual band Y us on the back and you've also got a MDOT 2 mini slot on the rear of the board so even though you've got a small form-factor such as this as rocker have crammed in all the essential features that I would need personally out of a board like this and of course you've only got those 4 SATA 3 ports which are supported on a be 350 license just like they would be on an X 370 license however one thing I will stress with Mini ITX motherboards and this has been true for years now is their VR ramps there's quite simply not enough space on a mini ITX board to include a VR M that's is good for instance as a full-size ATX X 370 board so with the be 350 mini ITX board you only get a three phase which i believes is doubled to six through smart technology a six phase erm dedicated towards the CPU and now this does have its limitations when it came to overclocking I had a rise in five 1600 that went up to 3.8 gigahertz add some sweet spot settings however when I took it to four gigahertz it did throttle the motherboard and things did get hot and I did have to turn this motherboard off and then drop it down to three point eight gigahertz so if you are into building a mini ITX build on Rison then you may wish to be careful and not go full ball with an eight core and water cooler and expecting yourself to get four gigahertz day and day out because that might not be the case and when I've checked the V RMS on the biostar and also the gigabyte variants for example they too were not performing as well as their bigger ATX counterparts so that's one thing to keep in mind when it comes to building a mini ITX build in general you guys hope you enjoy today's video and if you did - be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below do you currently own a B 350 or X 370 motherboard if so why did you pick one over the other if not which one would you buy love rating your comments as always and another thing with the Mini ITX boards on the Rison am 4 platform is that they are generally inexpensive I picked up the B 350 from asrock for around about $100 for the size and all the features it has it's actually a really good buy so I can highly recommend it someone building a mini ITX build just keep in mind it does have its limitations and with that I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye actually there is one interesting difference between the be 350 in the ex 370 motherboards on the Mini ITX lineup on asrock and that is that one has the antennas that's the B 350 and the X 370 has a module for the wireless and especially ironic because I prefer the antennas over the module sight gets the B 350 for me personally on the Mini ITX lineup is the better by not just in terms of savings but in terms of features