News ASUS STRIX B350I GAMING

It is happening

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

Price: 199$

 

[Thestarkiller32]

Do I need to download the asus motherboard utilities driver to access aura?

if it works...yes

 

[Choidebu]

Do I need to download the asus motherboard utilities driver to access aura?

No. It's a standalone program.

 

[Nightblade]

So finally picked this board up on Round 2. Its available on Newegg now in case you didn't get it the first time.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813119056

Now its time to play "Whack a Mole" Graphics Card Edition with finding a 1070 or 1070 ti available that fits in my S4M...

 

[Thestarkiller32]

So finally picked this board up on Round 2. Its available on Newegg now in case you didn't get it the first time.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813119056

Now its time to play "Whack a Mole" Graphics Card Edition with finding a 1070 or 1070 ti available that fits in my S4M...

https://smallformfactor.net/forum/t...view-of-mini-gtx-1070-cards-nfc-s4-case.2586/

There are your informations and personely, i would go for the MSI AERO ITX

GPU: MSI AERO ITX 1070
http://tekeverything.com/msi-gtx-1070-aero-itx-review/

 

[Nightblade]

@Thestarkiller32 The MSI AERO ITX is pretty good, and it was one of the ones on my list. When I said "'Whack a mole' Graphics Card Edition" I was referring to the availability of the cards. Literally just recently Newegg had the Zotac GTX 1070 ti minis available and were all gone within a day.

 

[Thestarkiller32]

@Thestarkiller32 The MSI AERO ITX is pretty good, and it was one of the ones on my list. When I said "'Whack a mole' Graphics Card Edition" I was referring to the availability of the cards. Literally just recently Newegg had the Zotac GTX 1070 ti minis available and were all gone within a day.

By me in Germany, nearly all 1060 and 1070 are out of stock or cost more then they should...
I was looking for a 1060 but alone the 3GB model costs 300€ :/

 

[Ubermarshall]

I just received my board.

My one gripe so far is that it comes with a cpu header, a pump header and a single fan header.
Previously Asus would fit a fan extension header, for use with their fan extension card.

It means I need to look at a corsair commander for control of the two fans in the front, two on top, the rear fan.

 

[Choidebu]

Are you putting an itx board in an atx case?

 

[Ubermarshall]

Large enough to fit four 140mm fans, 1 120mm and a decent sized cpu cooler. Not an atx case though.

 

[Choidebu]

I see. Maybe just split them into 2 groups? One controlled by case_fan one by aio_pump

 

[Ubermarshall]

Aio header has no controls.
I cannot simply use a pwm extension, there are 120mm and 140mm fans. The speeds would be out of whack.
I will look for a solution.

 

[Choidebu]

Yes it can be controlled with QFan. You need to enable aio pump control within the bios. I don't have anything currently run off it but from what I read it's just pwm.

 

[Ubermarshall]

Yes it can be controlled with QFan. You need to enable aio pump control within the bios. I don't have anything currently run off it but from what I read it's just pwm.

Thanks Choidebu, I overlooked the aio header.
In that case I have full control of three groups of fans.
I will just use the supplied lna on the rear fan, tie it into the top exhaust fans.

 

[Ubermarshall]

I made the assumption it was not controllable, like the secondary cpu_opt that some older Asus boards have.

 

[Choidebu]

Glad it saved you from getting commander ^^

 

[SoDelicious]

B350-I Back in stock in Canada !! Pretty limited stock


https://www.pccanada.com/viewitem.asp?id=673360

https://www.softwarecity.ca/item/ROG STRIX B350-I GAMING.html

 

[err11cc]

I accidentally removed and threw away the thermal pad for the m.2 ssd heatsink. i am the stupidest idiot...i didn't know what it was and thought it was a sticker of some sort

 

[br3nd0]

I accidentally removed and threw away the thermal pad for the m.2 ssd heatsink. i am the stupidest idiot...i didn't know what it was and thought it was a sticker of some sort

Fear not!

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=735&area=en

https://www.moddiy.com/products/3M-...80-Cooling-Fin-Heatsink-with-Thermal-Pad.html

 

[err11cc]

Fear not!

how come the thermal pad that came with the asus mobo was to be applied on top of the m.2 ssd, while silverstone is to be applied on the bottom of the ssd??

 

[Choidebu]

Read the page.... it is to spread heat to the board it is on... dedicated heatsink for m2 drives is a new thing I guess. but if you do have heatsink on top of the board, SURELY putting it on top makes more sense? It's just a thermally conductive sticker - you can put regular thermal paste if you don't mind the mess.. Also, there's such thing as double sided card - your drive can have memory chips at the bottom side as well.