Asus announces 2 X370 boards: ROG Crosshair VI Hero and X370 Prime

[Guest]

2 hours ago, dizmo said:

Is that 13 USB ports I see?! *drooools*

Looks pretty solid. Can't wait to see what they do with the SFF boards. Those are all I really care about.

The Crosshair... 8 USB 3.0 ports, 4 USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 3.1 (1 of which being Type C). Impressive. Why would anyone need that many ports, again?

Taran can connect all his keyboard with all his macro keys he pre made

[Guest Kloaked]

1 hour ago, TheRandomness said:

The Crosshair... 8 USB 3.0 ports, 4 USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 3.1 (1 of which being Type C). Impressive. Why would anyone need that many ports, again?

I have two mice, a keyboard, audio interface, Xbone controller, Fitbit charger and I would plug my phone into it but I don't have a dock just yet. I'd probably use more USB ports if I had any more.

[pAceMakerNZ]

Anyone know if AMD will have something like Intel Smart Response?

[dizmo]

4 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Taran can connect all his keyboard with all his macro keys he pre made

Haha, I'm so sick of companies putting 5 or even 4 USB ports on a board and calling it enough.

[The Benjamins]

1 minute ago, pAceMakerNZ said:

Anyone know if AMD will have something like Intel Smart Response?

why not just use a SSD as a boot drive? the price is getting nice and low?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Haha, I'm so sick of companies putting 5 or even 4 USB ports on a board and calling it enough.

RIP apple

[TheRandomness]

4 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I have two mice, a keyboard, audio interface, Xbone controller, Fitbit charger and I would plug my phone into it but I don't have a dock just yet. I'd probably use more USB ports if I had any more.

That's 7 out of the 14 ports used... I mean, I can see 10 being enough, but 14 is just going a little bit far, no? I know USB 2.0 ports are welcome by extreme LN2 overclockers though..

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

RIP apple

Eh, ultrabooks I'm fine with.

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

That's 7 out of the 14 ports used... I mean, I can see 10 being enough, but 14 is just going a little bit far, no? I know USB 2.0 ports are welcome by extreme LN2 overclockers though..

True, but I'd rather have more than enough than not enough =)

[pAceMakerNZ]

10 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

why not just use a SSD as a boot drive? the price is getting nice and low?

Hopefully someone will be able to answer my question

[DildorTheDecent]

Crosshair is the only board worth considering on AM4. 

 

Hopefully it's as baller as it's predecessors. 

[The Benjamins]

6 minutes ago, pAceMakerNZ said:

Hopefully someone will be able to answer my question

I don't remember hearing anything about it, you can use a third party app called fancy cache. but SSD caching is basically dead due to the price going down and capacity is getting to be more then enough. I think also windows storage spaces has a SSD caching option for virtual drive arrays.

[cj09beira]

2 hours ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Doubled-up 5 phase probably. Or actually, that's really the only way you can have them. And they didn't say 10 phases for everything, so I can assume it's a 10+2 phase or something like that.

asus as always said 8 vcore phases are enough, its most likely a 8+2  

[pAceMakerNZ]

5 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I don't remember hearing anything about it, you can use a third party app called fancy cache. but SSD caching is basically dead due to the price going down and capacity is getting to be more then enough. I think also windows storage spaces has a SSD caching option for virtual drive arrays.

Thanks

[manikyath]

first thought: HOLY VRMs.

 

second thought: they put aura RGB on there

[cj09beira]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

first thought: HOLY VRMs.

 

second thought: they put aura RGB on there

just turn it off 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, cj09beira said:

just turn it off 

thats not necessary, because it's off when you dont install (or are not able to install) the aura software

 

at least something they did good

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just imagine tho.. instead of bothering with engineering RGB, having that money put into a PLX chip....

[cj09beira]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

thats not necessary, because it's off when you dont install (or are not able to install) the aura software

 

at least something they did good

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just imagine tho.. instead of bothering with engineering RGB, having that money put into a PLX chip....

lets be real, who needs that expensive plx chip

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

lets be real, who needs that expensive plx chip

imagine if they say "look, it doesnt matter where you stick your GPU in this board, every slot is the same speed"

 

so you could have SLI/CF with 2 slots in between, with one slot in between, have a single gpu all the way up top, have a single gpu in the second slot, have a single gpu in the bottom slot with capture cards in every other slot

[JaMGeR]

a premiun just to play with the slots u mean @manikyath 

 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, JaMGeR said:

a premiun just to play with the slots u mean @manikyath 

 

a premium to have choice, rather than essentially having every slot be "this slot is best for this, this slot is best for this".

 

i could see a lot of livestreamers get a board where they can stick the GPU in the far bottom to have more room for capture cards without impeding GPU airflow, as well as the ballers getting *ALL* the pcie storage

[That Norwegian Guy]

I think (know) I'm speaking for literally everyone: mATX X370 or GTFO

[cj09beira]

1 minute ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

I think (know) I'm speaking for literally everyone: mATX X370 or GTFO

atx or GTFO :-p

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

I think (know) I'm speaking for literally everyone: mATX X370 or GTFO

i'd rather have DTX become a thing again

[TigerHawk]

I've already started putting together an AM4 system to upgrade from my old ivy bridge i5. Only thing missing is mobo and cpu. I want pricing damnit. How much is the base 8c/16t gonna cost and how much is an enthusiast X370 board gonna cost? Even B350 since I don't need or want Crossfire/SLI again. 4 times is enough for me.

I want pricingggggggg. Also performance numbers of Ryzen of course, but MSRP is more realistic to find at this point with release being like, a month away.