News AMD X570 ITX Motherboards

So we have 1 confirmed so far:

The Crosshair VIII Impact is the ITX variant.

I'm hoping here that Asus think Zen 2 is amazing enough to revive Enthusiast class Impact boards and not offer us neutered versions like the Strix garbage they've been peddling for the last few years!

B550 boards are "speculated" to appear around 6 months after X570.

 

[dfrgu]

Only 1 m.2 port on the ASRock offering, and intel mounting holes? I’ll be looking elsewhere for my X570 ITX board, I guess.

/edit: A number of techtubers have been talking about most, if not all X570 boards being significantly more expensive then the X370/470 B350/450 offerings. If this is the case, ASRock doesn’t have a second M.2? Also, small number of rear USB vs. competition. I love my X370 ITX from them, but this is a letdown.

But, but man, it has a Thunderbolt, it's the first AM4 ITX ever has it. If you do not need it, then look elsewhere for sure, but it does not mean the board itself is bad.

 

[dfrgu]

NCASE M1, my man...

I said "MOST".

 

[ermac318]

There are far more CPU coolers made for Intel LGA 115X because of how dominant it has been in the market for the past half decade, so you will basically now have compatibility for all if not most CPU coolers, whereas there are quite a few lacking the AM4 support because who the h#ck is AMD.

Even for coolers with AM4 compatibility, this is a win because some of them don't allow you to rotate them in the socket unless you use the Intel mounting. That said, the very tall elements around the socket sort of make that a moot point, since I don't think anyone will be sticking a Black Ridge on this guy, basically water cooling or tall towers are a must.

 

[1s44c]

probably not because they already have the tooling for stock am4

 

[miptzi]

115x cooler mount is better for orientation too. After all its "square" and you can fiddle with 4 positions, which is kinda lacking in am4 coolers....

 

[NinoPecorino]

i really do hope the intel mounting is adopted for more am4 boards in the future

 

[T_Tank]

Just thought about it but... Can you even use a big shuriken 3 on these am4 itx boards?
Looks like it foul against the heat sinks over the vrm.
Insidentily the board with the lga fan mount means you should be able to use the big shuriken 2 without hackery!

 

[MrClippy]

Just thought about it but... Can you even use a big shuriken 3 on these am4 itx boards?
Looks like it foul against the heat sinks over the vrm.
Insidentily the board with the lga fan mount means you should be able to use the big shuriken 2 without hackery!

I heard of someone doing it by getting a am4 mount that was meant for another cooler. Can't remember where I saw it...

 

[MrClippy]

Timestamp: 5:32

Gigabyte X570 ITX

8 phase direct power VRM, 2 m.2 NVME slots

 

[Marvelm]

Just thought about it but... Can you even use a big shuriken 3 on these am4 itx boards?
Looks like it foul against the heat sinks over the vrm.
Insidentily the board with the lga fan mount means you should be able to use the big shuriken 2 without hackery!

Wondering the same thing, I'm going to use the Big Shuriken 3 in the build but only the Gigabyte board looks to be able to fit it without problems. On the other hand you can rotate it every which way so maybe it would fit on the other boards too somehow.

 

[T_Tank]

I heard of someone doing it by getting a am4 mount that was meant for another cooler. Can't remember where I saw it...

Yeah I've got a jerry rigged bs2 on my am4 board right now but if you could just use the lga mounts that be easier and more natural setup

 

[Boil]

 

[theGryphon]

It seems like my Realan E-i7 is going to fit the Crosshair VIII Impact along with the Cryorig C1 ?

I think I found a little gem: Realan E-i7

OK, this Realan E-i7 case has been around for at least 5 years, and it seems to (have) be(en) quiet popular as an HTPC. It is however under the radar among the SFF community due to limited availability (only the Silver version is available at Newegg only, or you have to buy direct through...

smallformfactor.net

I guess that means phase two for my little case ?

 

[ExplodingWaffle101]

 

[MrClippy]

Interesting that it has only 4+2. The Asus Strix X570-I on the other hand has " 8+2 power stages " according to here.

Comparing with the other OEMs, MSI has nothing so far. Based on videos and photos, Asrock seems to have 6 VRMs for the core, and one m.2 slot, but then has thunderbolt passthrough.

It's sounding like the ASUS Strix X570-I and the Gigabyte X570 ITX is better suited for overclocking 16 cores compared to the other options with those 8 phase VRMs. Both also have two m.2 slots, which hopefully will be PCIe gen 4.

Edit: Another redditor post has summed up thus far

 

[ExplodingWaffle101]

Interesting that it has only 4+2. The Asus Strix X570-I on the other hand has " 8+2 power stages " according to here.

Comparing with the other OEMs, MSI has nothing so far. Based on videos and photos, Asrock seems to have 6 VRMs for the core, and one m.2 slot, but then has thunderbolt passthrough.

It's sounding like the ASUS Strix X570-I and the Gigabyte X570 ITX is better suited for overclocking 16 cores compared to the other options with those 8 phase VRMs. Both also have two m.2 slots, which hopefully will be PCIe gen 4.

Edit: Another redditor post has summed up thus far

"here" also says the impact has 8+2

 

[OtackKulandinglar]

I think Buildzoid is saying there are only 4 physical VRM modules, doubled, to make it 8+2. So it isn't a 'true' 8+2. But that is fine because of how good the VRMs are

 

[Boil]

 

[1s44c]

Technically when phases are doubled, there are that (the big number) physical phases on the board. However, the problem with doubling is that it increses ripple, and vrm latency. This negatively affects overclocking. The whole point of doubling is to get more phases than the vrm controller allows. Typically the more phases that a controller can control, the more expensive it is. So adding doublers makes the vrm cheaper, or allows more phases than otherwise be possible. TL;DR a doubler is like a plx chip for vrm phases

 

[1s44c]

Here is a Der8auer video on the subject