First AMD X470 Motherboard Caught On Camera - Reveals little change

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Love my x370 Taichi ! :)
     
  3. spectatorx

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    I'm wondering more about what is this thing on right side? PCI-Ex x1 ports placement and number of them is sick.
     
  4. ZXRaziel

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    Could it be one of those mining motherboards ?
     

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    From what I read x470 has only to do with removing the 1x PCIe 2.0 support and replacing it with 1xPCIe 3.0 support, but my recollection is hazy on that point.
     
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    100% mining motherboard, 2 Molex connectors, 11 PCI 1 and 1 full PCI.
     
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    I'm a bit curious why the "normal" board has both a 4 pin and 8 pin. Surely the new Ryzens can't demand that much power. Though, that, along with the hefty VRM heatsink seems very promising in terms of OC potential...
     
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    That board with bunch of PCIE x1 is not X470, it is Intel board B250 or 360,mining board,and for 4 and 8 pin, most likely just posturing , you know who has the beefiest power delivery , i think there were some X370 boards with both 4 and 8 pin.
     
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    I'm referring to the board that isn't littered with x1 slots. Look at the top-left corner of it.
     
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    Yeah, i noticed, little late better then never :), ia already edited my previous post.
     

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    Yap, was right, just applied little google-fu and found it,Asus Crosshair VI had 8+4, i am quite sure there were others as well.
     
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    Huh. I never really paid attention to current high end boards. Kinda stupid IMO, considering these CPUs don't draw anywhere near the amount of power that warrant these (you can safely run a stock 1800X on a single 4-pin power connector). But, I guess people like to buy into that kind of stuff.
     
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    you should remember that this motherboards are getting Vega apus, so we already know the power consumption levels of vega architecture, i think it is just in case of a hi power apu (which i would love to see) launch.
     
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    I understand where you're coming from, but what I hear, Vega scales down nicely. Vega 56 and 64 are unimpressive because the architecture was pushed to a point where it wasn't really meant to go to, for the sake of competing against the 1070 and 1080. Think of it like ARM CPUs: they have better performance-per-watt than x86 counterparts, but that efficiency rapidly degrades as the frequency goes higher. That being said, it doesn't seem like AMD has any plans to release APUs anywhere near as powerful as Vega 56, so I'm confident we're not going to see parts consuming more than the 235W continuous limit of a single 8-pin connector, even when overclocked.

    Besides, the mobile APUs seem to be pretty low power.
     
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    in that case that conector could be a premium addition just to stand out on performance motherboards market
     

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