News ASUS STRIX B350I GAMING
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True. For games it doesn't really matter. But why then get a 960 Pro-series NVMe M.2 instead of a SATA M.2? Save quite a lot of money there. You essentially nerf your M.2 from 1400+ mbit/s to 600 mbit/s.
Spire technology in UK has 49 x370s in stock, B350 arriving today.
https://www.spire.co.uk/product_det...&cat_desc=1&cat_id=121&show_menu=Motherboards
https://www.spire.co.uk/product_det...&cat_desc=1&cat_id=121&show_menu=Motherboards
Don't want to get an account just to see the price. Anyone able to post how much they are selling it for, and then convert that to USD for me?
I want to buy X370 version but i worry about PCH temp. I though that, heatsink is covered by M.2/Audio board. My suspicions were confirmed. Look at this temp... it's HUGE 62C it's not at load!
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About the PCH temperature, it really depends on the chassis cooling. À top-down CPU heatsink will help a lot with VRM and chipsets cooling.
Yes, i agree with that but in this case PCH cooling is very limited. PCH is covered by audio/m.2 board.
I think in this mainboard the situation is quite opposite than asrock X370/B350 itx.
Much cooler VRM but much warmer PCH.
I think in this mainboard the situation is quite opposite than asrock X370/B350 itx.
Much cooler VRM but much warmer PCH.
From the review video's i've seen, worse case temps with this board do not hold back overclocks compared to the best ATX overclocking motherboards out there. That's good enough for me. I don't nitpick the little things as long as the end result is good.
EDIT: Found this: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B076PQ9P7Y
Looks like its for sale on the german amazon page.
EDIT: Found this: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B076PQ9P7Y
Looks like its for sale on the german amazon page.
I wouldn't worry about "suspect indicators" like the PCH temps. Maybe if it's low rent third tier brands, but for Asus? I wouldn't worry at all. I let go the notion of component temps since knowing the term acceptable operational temp, or the way it's designed. Pretty sure the engineers have done their math, and with ROG Strix being a premium brand, they wouldn't risk tarnishing the brand.
Also, downdraft downdraft downdraft. A moving air is always better than non moving air at all.
If you search Google for PCH temps then a few Asus Rog threads to come up, and temps range between 30-60deg. I wouldn't worry about that. Anyway isn't it a given that most ITX components run warmer than ATX boards due to their size and the small cases we put them in.
I'll take a warm PCH over the VRM cookers on the gigabyte and lesser extent the asrock am4 boards.
Spire.co.uk are stating stock in on the 24th. Not signed up so not sure on their price.
I'll take a warm PCH over the VRM cookers on the gigabyte and lesser extent the asrock am4 boards.
Spire.co.uk are stating stock in on the 24th. Not signed up so not sure on their price.
Still can't find it anywhere in the USA. One thing i noticed. The top M.2 slot is either sata or pci-e 3 4x. The bottom one can only be pci-e 2 4x. So if you want a fast nvme and a cheap sata, you have to put your nvme drive on the pci-e 2 slot on the back.
Tf? That's absurd. PCIe 2.0 x4 is 16Gb/s though, right? So it might still work for a 10G NIC. I wonder if a 7mm thin SATA to M.2 converter would fit underneath the board...
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