Just as a quick note on that NewEgg rebate offer from ASRock: If you do a quick review on the Egg as well, you get an additional $15 added on to your total rebate bonus.
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Motherboard ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac and AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac
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They have WiFi and Bluetooth built in. Biostar supposedly doesn't have a very good bios.
Mine arrived this evening. Quick pics.
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I love it how the motherboard box is as big as your case 
Don't forget build quality. Biostar is bottom of the pack. Both the Gigabyte and ASRock boards have better build quality and components, and nice touches like metal reinforcement of the PCIe slot (which might be a concern if you have a heavy GPU and move your rig around a lot).
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For some reason NewEgg is happy to ship me the x370 but wouldn't allow me to ship the AB350 earlier this morning (sold out now). Is the x370 remotely worth the extra $50.
Hahahah something is brewing .... early concept phase at the moment
I'm playing with a few technologies to see how they can be leveraged
Did some building last night. Started a Log for it.
So far:
1700 stock clocks/ volts
Ripjaw 16gb 3200 at 2933 xmp timings. Will not post at rates 3200. Expected this being a Hynix based kit.
Zotac 1050ti
SF 450 corsair
Crucial mx 275g ssd
Intel NVME 512g
So far:
1700 stock clocks/ volts
Ripjaw 16gb 3200 at 2933 xmp timings. Will not post at rates 3200. Expected this being a Hynix based kit.
Zotac 1050ti
SF 450 corsair
Crucial mx 275g ssd
Intel NVME 512g
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I could be wrong here, but in terms of those particular ASRock boards, I think the only notable difference is that the X370 has better wifi (and the chipset itself supports SLI, but both support Crossfire).
Just to be clear to anyone reading this though, only the X370 can split the x16 slot so XFire isn't possible on a B350 ITX board without maybe tapping the M.2 slot.
The wifi module on the x370 gaming-ITX/ac is Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 in case anyone was wondering.
The wifi module on the x370 gaming-ITX/ac is Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 in case anyone was wondering.
I might have to upgrade the wireless card in my AB350 board once it comes in. I didn't realize they were different.
That is the difference, which is inferred based on where they note 433 Mbps and 866 Mbps transmit speeds. In my AB350 board, I will be putting an Intel 8260 Wi-Fi chip that I had purchased and used in my last Skylake build.
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