News ASUS STRIX B350I GAMING
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Another British site has the B-350 on "special order" with dispatch "in 2 or 3 days" but I doubt if they can honor that.
https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/Asus-STRIX-B350-I-GAMING-AM4,DDR4,WiFi,RGB,iTX/
https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/Asus-STRIX-B350-I-GAMING-AM4,DDR4,WiFi,RGB,iTX/
Some guy just got one in Latvia. LATVIA! 
http://www.overclock.net/t/1640397/...-mini-itx-ryzen-motherboards/20#post_26424308
http://www.overclock.net/t/1640397/...-mini-itx-ryzen-motherboards/20#post_26424308
I've bought from eclipse before, it's been a while but I'd be surprised if they fulfilled 2-3 days.
Ha the Latvian guy getting grief already for buying the x370i. I do despair at the internet some days.
Ha the Latvian guy getting grief already for buying the x370i. I do despair at the internet some days.
Another X370-i review:
https://overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/asus_rog_strix_x370i_gaming_review/1
https://overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/asus_rog_strix_x370i_gaming_review/1
Good to see the detailed discussion on the vrm heat. Not worried by this board. Still think I'll stick to a top down air cooler, as I'll only be overclocking a 1200 for now until Zen 2 anyway.
Lefdal in Norway has the B350-i "confirmed" for 20.11.17
https://www.lefdal.com/product/data...IXB350/asus-rog-strix-b350-i-gaming-hovedkort
i just emailed the ASUS NA marketing manager to check on an ETA for US/Canada. Hopefully he can give me a date.
https://www.lefdal.com/product/data...IXB350/asus-rog-strix-b350-i-gaming-hovedkort
i just emailed the ASUS NA marketing manager to check on an ETA for US/Canada. Hopefully he can give me a date.
So does this means the B350 version won't have M.2 NVME support? My Asrock AB350 supports M.2 NVME and that's why I use Corsair MP500. If Asus B350-I didn't support it, it's a bummer, but paying premium for just the NVME support is kind of a pain.
They both have 2 M2 slots.
But B350 only have enough bandwidth to do one on nvme speed (pcie 3.0 x4) and one on sata speed, while x370 can do the other one on pcie 2.0 x4 speed which is faster than sata but a bit less than nvme.
So if you plug in an nvme ssd to the back of the b350-i, it'll just be limited to sata speeds. Good for those slower but cheaper nvme ssds like wd blue, intel 600p. Or older m2 sata ones.
Was asking the question because the screenshot of the MB spec only said M.2 PCIE specifically on the X370-I while the B350-I only stated M.2. My current MB is Asrock AB350 ITX with back mounted M.2 slot, with a custom heatsink mounted on my NVME M.2. I'm planning to move to Cougar QBX, which has very tight rear panel hence it's impossible to use my custom NVME M.2.
If that's the case though, I'm buying the ROG Strix B350-I, hoping it comes to my country no later before end of the year.
Yeah that should be a good idea. The elevated design plus heatsink seems to keep those hot nvme ssds 10 deg C cooler, some review said.
Btw a little correction to my comment above, an m2 slot with pcie 2 x4 is actually fast enough for fastest current gen nvme ssds. Theoretically you'll probably get the same bench if you put the same drive in either.
So we can say x370-i board practically supports 2 nvme drives.
Edit: wrong again. Samsung 960 pro tops out at whopping 3500MB/s, that can't be done on pcie 2 x4...
Btw a little correction to my comment above, an m2 slot with pcie 2 x4 is actually fast enough for fastest current gen nvme ssds. Theoretically you'll probably get the same bench if you put the same drive in either.
So we can say x370-i board practically supports 2 nvme drives.
Edit: wrong again. Samsung 960 pro tops out at whopping 3500MB/s, that can't be done on pcie 2 x4...
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AFAIK, the X370-i does support bifurcation. Not sure about B350-i
Dude read the spec. It's there on ASUS website. 32GB.
I'm more than happy with SATA SSD speed actually. NVME to me is a bit overkill. However since my current storage needs are 2x SSD and 2x HDD, I decided to use nvme as dedicated OS drive. Didn't notice any significant improvement when using Photoshop on the C: drive from my old Intel setup, but probably because I'm a plebeian user.
What drive do you use?
I myself haven't tried it too - from hdds to ssds was a giant leap, and only recently that faster nvme ssds come into the market. Theoretically the current fastest should be 3 times as fast as current sata ssd, with averages of 2 times as fast, but it's just throughput. You don't really notice throughput improvement unless you do a lot of moving large files around. It was different case with hdd to ssd case, since random seek times was orders of magnitude faster.
I myself haven't tried it too - from hdds to ssds was a giant leap, and only recently that faster nvme ssds come into the market. Theoretically the current fastest should be 3 times as fast as current sata ssd, with averages of 2 times as fast, but it's just throughput. You don't really notice throughput improvement unless you do a lot of moving large files around. It was different case with hdd to ssd case, since random seek times was orders of magnitude faster.
Corsair MP500, tested on crystaldiskmark read speed of 2500MB/S, that's stupid fast. However, idling at 66 degrees Celsius is worrying. I put a large aluminum heatsink on the controller and upward facing memory chipset. If only these motherboards came out a few months back, I wouldn't have to rebuild my PC again.
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