Hello fellow SFF enthusiasts,
I've been daydreaming perhaps a little too much lately and I thought how awesome it would be to have an "ASRock X600-MSTX Extreme", basically an AM5 mini-STX board with a full-size PCIe x16 (mechanically and electrically), native 12V support or standard ATX 24 pin power connector as well as a more capable power delivery/VRMs.
Now there's obviously a few difficulties with that: space constraints, PCIe lanes, power delivery, total addressable market.
According to my calculations the X600 deskmini uses 18 of the 24 available PCIe lanes of the bare AM5 IO die (couldn't verify that). So to get an x16 slot other interfaces would have to "be sacrificed".
Such as:
-SATA
-some USB ports
-M.2 downgrade 5.0 -> 4.0/3.0
-onboard sound "card"
-Wi-Fi aka M.2 E-key
My theory is that if we find like 1k guaranteed buyers ASRock might make this dream a reality. Of course with low numbers comes a big price premium.
therefore I've now got a few questions for you:
have I just gone insane to think there's any realistic chance of this happening?
which onboard connectivity would you be willing to sacrifice?
would you be interested in buying such a board and for up to what price?
are there other features you would like to see on this fantasy board?
just leave any thoughts that pop up in your mind, thanks![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
-Gideon
I've been daydreaming perhaps a little too much lately and I thought how awesome it would be to have an "ASRock X600-MSTX Extreme", basically an AM5 mini-STX board with a full-size PCIe x16 (mechanically and electrically), native 12V support or standard ATX 24 pin power connector as well as a more capable power delivery/VRMs.
Now there's obviously a few difficulties with that: space constraints, PCIe lanes, power delivery, total addressable market.
According to my calculations the X600 deskmini uses 18 of the 24 available PCIe lanes of the bare AM5 IO die (couldn't verify that). So to get an x16 slot other interfaces would have to "be sacrificed".
Such as:
-SATA
-some USB ports
-M.2 downgrade 5.0 -> 4.0/3.0
-onboard sound "card"
-Wi-Fi aka M.2 E-key
My theory is that if we find like 1k guaranteed buyers ASRock might make this dream a reality. Of course with low numbers comes a big price premium.
therefore I've now got a few questions for you:
have I just gone insane to think there's any realistic chance of this happening?
which onboard connectivity would you be willing to sacrifice?
would you be interested in buying such a board and for up to what price?
are there other features you would like to see on this fantasy board?
just leave any thoughts that pop up in your mind, thanks
-Gideon