I've been waiting for the B350 for my Hoojum case but won't be jumping on any $200 B350 boards. I too hope that's just a place holder. I was expecting B350 boards to come in around $100. Here's hoping!
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Motherboard ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac and AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac
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Different in what way? Both CPUs seem to benchmark about the same in most games I've looked at.
Double the number of cores, four times the processing threads. Depending on your personal usage (just gaming) it might not be too different in the end, but for a lot of tasks (or multitasking) there will be big differences. I definitely think the platforms will age differently.
Oh yeah, I just haven't considered the benefit of extra cores since I really only game. Although, the more time I spend on here and seeing people's case designs, the more I want to get into 3D design and make my own!
I just preordered the B350 board from NCIX and the total to have it shipped to California was $173 USD. I've been waiting since.. basically March so at this point I don't mind the price. I expected these boards to be at about $150 and I already decided I'd be going with Asrock over Biostar and Gigabyte (because of the design for my Corsair 380T), so $23 wasn't that big of a deal when deciding.
It's probably a miscommunication since they likely don't have final pricing yet, but just a heads up for anyone thinking of pre-ordering from NCIXUS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/6i5nix/x370_asrock_itx_up_for_preorder/dj5e4n6/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/6i5nix/x370_asrock_itx_up_for_preorder/dj5e4n6/
Which M.2 Key does this support? Does it support M.2 B+M?
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Seriously! I haven't build a new PC in a long time and I'm glad to get to try out AMD again. So far the only thing I have yet to get are the case fans and this Asrock board..
That definitely has to be the wrong pricing. I'd be really disappointed in NCIX if they charged MORE in USD than the under-performing CAD. Not getting any solid confirmation from customer support is a little sketchy as well. NCIX (CAD) can hold your preorder for the correct price if anyone from America is interested. Now my only concern is if I'll actually even be able to get the board or not before they go to backorder.
The ASRock board has a page now. http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITXac/
Why the hell are these ITX MBOs better than any mATX MBO??
Like, you can't find a single mATX with that audio features and latest codec, among other things.
Good question! I would have seriously considered mATX again if there were any top of the line options...
Because most manufacturers treat mATX as a cheap version of a simple ATX board. They just think most people will want either ATX or mITX, not mATX. It's a damn shame.
In the worst case scenario you can put Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITX inside Define Mini C, instead of Define Nano S.
You lose nothing except 2 DIMM slots which is irrelevant if you get 2x8 or 2x16GB RAM, both would be overkill for many years to come.
If there are no quiet SFX PSU, maybe that's the only way to go - mATX case like Mini C with a high quality ITX motherboard.
In all fairness most of the feature rich mATX boards are 9.6" x 9.6" while a standard ATX board is 12" x 9.6" which means it's only 20% smaller. This doesn't drastically change your enclosure size and functionally there's not a huge difference between the two boards. ITX at 6.7 x 6.7 is less than half the area of a mATX board and about 40% the size of an ITX board which is in a completely different ballpark for enclosure size and functionality. Considering that most users are only going to use their PCIe slots for GPUs, the only real question with respect to board requirements is do you want one or two of them (don't think that many people crossfire 2+ cards anymore). If you're going for a multi GPU setup, then you're basically going to be shoehorned into a huge enclosure anyways. At this point it looks like mATX is just the old solution for what ITX does now and is dying a slow death as a result.
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