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Motherboard Incoming AM4 Mini-ITX boards
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Well with reports of AMD CPUs reaching 1,2, and 4th on Amazon sales positions and other reports that at launch AMD will ship over 1million chips to pre-order customers; I feel OEMs have really missed the boat with this. It's not like ITX has sold like thin-ITX. There really isn't anything to prove as far as return on investment is concerned. OEMs just chose to take this route and I feel it was a bad decision.
I believe Raja said motherboard development takes 6 months for a new design, and possibly longer for something more complicated like enthusiast ITX.
So to have a high-end AM4 Mini-ITX board at launch would have required confidence the platform would have been successful a year ago, which I think we can agree wasn't the case.
So to have a high-end AM4 Mini-ITX board at launch would have required confidence the platform would have been successful a year ago, which I think we can agree wasn't the case.
So far it's still only a commercial success. I'm hoping the chips deliver but I am still trying not to give into hype.
One YouTuber I like pointed out that Intel's (generally superior) clock speeds might be getting to the point where they're superfluous... that Ryzen's single-speed performance might be measurably/objectively slower, but not enough so that a consumer would really care. AND you get literally double the cores/threads at a competitive price. I think there is some compelling reason behind that, but it's still just theoretical until we see what's what and benchmarks and reviews start coming out.
One YouTuber I like pointed out that Intel's (generally superior) clock speeds might be getting to the point where they're superfluous... that Ryzen's single-speed performance might be measurably/objectively slower, but not enough so that a consumer would really care. AND you get literally double the cores/threads at a competitive price. I think there is some compelling reason behind that, but it's still just theoretical until we see what's what and benchmarks and reviews start coming out.
Well, let's wait for trusted and multiple reviews.
Some first feedbacks shows even higher ipc than kabylake at 4.5ghz (r7 1700x vs core i7 7700k, both at 7700k)
OC3D has also some early feedbacks on overclocking that one r7 1700 can reach 4ghz with rog or taichi mb (3.8ghz with others lower grade one) with 240mm aio.
Let's'see, there are only a couple of days before nda end..
Some first feedbacks shows even higher ipc than kabylake at 4.5ghz (r7 1700x vs core i7 7700k, both at 7700k)
OC3D has also some early feedbacks on overclocking that one r7 1700 can reach 4ghz with rog or taichi mb (3.8ghz with others lower grade one) with 240mm aio.
Let's'see, there are only a couple of days before nda end..
Amazon is bad about doing "surge pricing" when the popularity of things picks up. That and if supply dries out you'll see people scalping them for thousands!
Just double core/thread count..
while playing 4k, cpu is no longer the bottleneck, so no need to have core i7 7700k, even at 5ghz...it brings nothing in game...where higher core count is improving productivity and some modern games ( bf1 or watchdogs 2)..regarding this, on the reddit AMA going on right now with AMD:
"AMD did not ask for any delays on mini-ITX, rather the partners are free to release when their product line is ready."
So, good news!
This looks like something we've been waiting for.
very neat...8/16 cores/threads in mini ITX form factor...cracky..
Seriously. Those sell for $400+ here in Canada, I found one use for $300 and almost pulled the trigger before realising that to make full use of it I'd need to drop some serious dough on a processor.
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