News ASUS STRIX B350I GAMING

It is happening

https://www.inet.se/produkt/1901045/asus-rog-strix-b350-i-gaming

Price: 199$

 

[Kmpkt]

Really like the redesigned bottom heatsink.

 

[gunpalcyril]

I don't know why, but I love how its simplified with no hdmi or display ports, even how the sound io is reduced and monotoned to black. $199 quite high no?

 

[Thestarkiller32]

I don't know why, but I love how its simplified with no hdmi or display ports, even how the sound io is reduced and monotoned to black. $199 quite high no?

Thats transfert...

Its 169€ for me

 

[quetzacoatlx]

Finally an m.2 on the top side.

 

[TheHig]

Wow. That's what I'm talking about!

Looking foreword to reviews on this one for sure.

 

[Ionrent]

 

 

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[Hifihedgehog]

Closer look at that strange riser:

It is a custom sound card, completely shielded and separated from the rest of the components so it has very low THD and SNR. ASUS always has done a fantastic job at producing the best sound cards. They have made Creative Labs an irrelevant joke in the consumer space as a result.

EDIT: As masteraleph below states, the ASUS ROG STRIX Z270I Gaming has an m.2 slot directly under the same-looking heatsink. Perhaps the sound card and the m.2 slot share the same cramped quarters and a riser was necessary to fit everything in?

 

[Ionrent]

 

 

[FoskcoRS5]

 

[d10ng]

Interesting, the Swedish website link, states 2 x m.2, not bad for ITX. So I think maybe one on top one underneath?

 

[masteraleph]

I know the z270i has 2x m.2 for storage- one on the back, one inside of a double-decker heatsink with the PCH underneath (so it's PCH, middle of the heat sink, m.2, top of the heatsink from motherboard level up).

 

[MarcParis]

Thanks for sharing...this boards looks gorgeous..

I'm pretty sure, bios will be great as it's a rog edition..

 

[Mortis Angelus]

169 EUR? Why is this mobo so expensive compared to the competition (i.e. asrock and gigabyte; biostar is in a different league imo)? What am I missing? And while I like that they removed the on-board video-outputs, I can't understand why they scimped on the Audio interface; why no digital out? Why no support for 7.1?

I do, however, like that Asus sticks with their dual M.2 slots and that they give plenty of USB-ports.

 

[Hifihedgehog]

I can't understand why they scimped on the Audio interface; why no digital out? Why no support for 7.1?

Digital out is hardly ever used anymore even by audiophile types like myself. HDMI passthrough has become the prodominant, go-to technology because it allows for lossless surround sound, something S/PDIF cannot do. The only useful thing I use onboard audio for now is headphone listening and ASUS has some of the cleanest, most powerful headphone output systems in the entire PC industry.

 

[gdourado]

Hope it has a good power delivery with 6 real phases and not that crap 3 phase implementation the Asrock ITX board has.

Cheers!

 

[meganerid]

Whoa.. makes the ITX boards from others look like they didn't try lol.
2 m.2 slots are great, also finally an R series only board haha..wish they could cram more ports in place of the missing HDMI/DP.
They're really late though, already got my Asrock

 

[MarcParis]

I don't know why, but I love how its simplified with no hdmi or display ports, even how the sound io is reduced and monotoned to black. $199 quite high no?

Well if there are dual m.2 pcie 3.0 4x....that's worth it... i would be even a little bit jealous of that, as none of of atx or micro atx boards have that..

 

[alamilla]

Well if there are dual m.2 pcie 3.0 4x....that's worth it... i would be even a little bit jealous of that, as none of of atx or micro atx boards have that..

The Asus ROG Crosshair VI Extreme has dual m.2