MSI bundles Optane with their boards

[NumLock21]

With the recent release of Intel Optane, MSI is bundling them with their motherboards. The two board that will come with Intel Optane is the MSI Z270 Tomahawk OPT Boost and MSI B250M Bazooka OPT Boost. Both of them will come with 16GB of the new storage for caching of programs and data so they will load faster when being paired with a mechanical hard drive. The Tomahawk is a ATX board with support for dual graphic card setup such as SLI or CFX. Can do over clocking on unlock cpus, and ram can go beyond 2400MHz. Bazooka is a microATX board, no dual SLI,CFX, or overclocking support. Maximum ram clock speed is DDR4 2400 when you use a KabyLake CPU. Skylake will only run at DDR4 2133MHz. No pricing on the boards yet, so we can't tell if the bundled is going be any saving compared to getting the board and 16GB Intel Optane separately.

 

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-bundling-intel-optane-200-series-motherboards,34245.html

[Electronics Wizardy]

does anyone have a good use for those optane modules yet? A normall ssd is much better for most users.

[Bouzoo]

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Bazooka

For some reason this always gets me.

Subject A: I have a Bazooka motherboard, you? 

Subject B: I have a Mortar one. 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/223613/msi-readies-the-b150m-mortar-arctic-and-b150m-bazooka-plus-motherboards

[Princess Luna]

Still not changing from Asus for preferred motherboards.

[silberdrachi]

8 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

does anyone have a good use for those optane modules yet? A normall ssd is much better for most users.

The weird thing is you need a brand new high end mobo. And if youre doing that it would get better performance to just take the 50 bucks youre spending on the optane to buy a good SSD instead of a HDD.

 

Really my assumption is they are selling it so that they can get money to scale up production so that they can roll out larger sized drives that could be a boot drive or OS drive of some sort.

[NumLock21]

13 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

does anyone have a good use for those optane modules yet? A normall ssd is much better for most users.

Like USB type C. I want to get a usb type C flash drive, but can't think of a good reason to buy one, other than to just say I have a USB type C flash drive.

[The Benjamins]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Like USB type C. I want to get a usb type C flash drive, but can't think of a good reason to buy one, other than to just say I have a USB type C flash drive.

assuming you have a USB c phone, so you can transfer files with it :^).

 

I find USB C/TB3 a lot more useful on laptops/tablets.

 

The Optane drives seems so useless to me. My PC's are already SSD only, and I dont expect to put a HDD in my PC again. (I use my 16TB NAS for media and stuff.)

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

assuming you have a USB c phone, so you can transfer files with it :^).

 

I find USB C/TB3 a lot more useful on laptops/tablets.

 

The Optane drives seems so useless to me.

Yes but the USB type C head on the phone side, you still use usb type A on your PC.

 

 

[Stefan1024]

Integrate the caching algorithm into the chipset and solder the optane memory directly onto the MoBo.

 

This would be great, but like this? Meh I'm not very impressed.

[Soonercoop]

I don't like MSI boards either, but I don't understand the optane hate. It seems like good technology that should be the standard to me.

[Misanthrope]

I guess I'll be that guy: Horrible fucking color match. 

 

In any case unless is something like a NAS/Router combo I don't think most people would benefit at all from these I guess intel would rather almost give em away to see if they get any traction with consumers.

[silberdrachi]

3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

I guess I'll be that guy: Horrible fucking color match. 

 

In any case unless is something like a NAS/Router combo I don't think most people would benefit at all from these I guess intel would rather almost give em away to see if they get any traction with consumers.

Do you know if anyone has done anything to compare optane on say a raid 5 as a cache versus just using a normal SSD as a cache? I feel like it wouldnt be enough of an improvement to warrant it. Would be an interesting video for me though, because im looking to update my nas soon. I just dont think i could justify setting up a ram disk cache in my nas, the cost of that wouldnt make sense with the workload it has.

[NumLock21]

11 minutes ago, Soonercoop21 said:

I don't like MSI boards either, but I don't understand the optane hate. It seems like good technology that should be the standard to me.

Optane will have its place, just not in a enthusiast build. There was a AIO I was working on and it it had a 32GB SSD for caching. Comparing it with SSD caching enable and disabled, there is a major performance difference.

[RedRound2]

Are black PCBs so much more expensive? Take a look inside any Apple computer and you'll see what I mean

Still don't get why black isn't the standard colour for PCBs but green and blue are

[NumLock21]

18 minutes ago, RedRound2 said:

Are black PCBs so much more expensive? Take a look inside any Apple computer and you'll see what I mean

Still don't get why black isn't the standard colour for PCBs but green and blue are

Causing adding colors is difficult and expensive.

[alexyy]

12 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Yes but the USB type C head on the phone side, you still use usb type A on your PC.

 

 

Not if your motherboard has a USB Type C port, shame every phone with type c has been stuck with usb 2 speeds for some odd reason.

[RedRound2]

12 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Causing adding colors is difficult and expensive.

By how much? A dollar in mass scale?