Second wave of X370 boards

[Jito463]

8 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I need x8 for a GPU and another x8 for 10Gb

Wouldn't that still be sufficiently handled by the 16 lanes from the CPU?  The only thing lost (so far as I can see) would be the PCIe 2.0 lanes on the chipset, native USB 3.1 support and the CF/SLI support.

[Guest]

MSI one looks nice. Hopefully it doesn't get as hot as AM4 boards.

[Misanthrope]

2 hours ago, Jito463 said:

I would think x300 would be a more appropriate chipset for those configurations.  After all, who runs a micro/mini board with CF/SLI?

How so?  I'm getting 2933 stable with mine (and it's not Samsung B die).  Or are you referring to clocks speeds well over 3000?

True: Im interested in the overclocking features. But if you've noticed, they include those only on x370 i.e. See the itx boards.

[Jito463]

3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

True: Im interested in the overclocking features. But if you've noticed, they include those only on x370 i.e. See the itx boards.

Not according to the graphs I've seen.

 

[Misanthrope]

4 minutes ago, Jito463 said:

Not according to the graphs I've seen.

 

Not talking graphs talking actual available boards which ignore that.

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007625 601292786 600009028

 

No A300s or X300s

[Jito463]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

Not talking graphs talking actual available boards which ignore that.

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007625 601292786 600009028

 

No A300s

Interesting, except that none of those boards have the x300 chipset.  They're either B350 or X370 (which doesn't make a lot of sense, since the x300 was designed explicitly for the mITX form factor).  I was talking about how the x300 supports OCing.

[Prysin]

7 hours ago, Jito463 said:

I would think x300 would be a more appropriate chipset for those configurations.  After all, who runs a micro/mini board with CF/SLI?

How so?  I'm getting 2933 stable with mine (and it's not Samsung B die).  Or are you referring to clocks speeds well over 3000?

they can get speeds, but its hard to near impossible to get speed + tight timings. Part of Ryzen IMC being trash, part having just one single phase to memory, meaning tolerances for memory (towards the IMC) is even slimmer

[The Benjamins]

8 hours ago, Jito463 said:

Wouldn't that still be sufficiently handled by the 16 lanes from the CPU?  The only thing lost (so far as I can see) would be the PCIe 2.0 lanes on the chipset, native USB 3.1 support and the CF/SLI support.

ya exactly but if its B350 its x16 gen3 form CPU to one slot and the other slots are PCIe gen 2 from chipset. so I need x370 to use the SLI setup to get enough bandwidth for the 10Gb NIC. I also want the better VRM on the x370 boards.

[DocSwag]

On 10/9/2017 at 9:32 AM, Prysin said:

eh, with Ryzens shitty IMC it does A LOT...

Gigabyte AM4 boards are trash with memory speed, because it only have ONE phase, while most others use two phases. Thus delivers cleaner, more stable power. Which is required when you have a atrociously bad IMC

I can't see why it would. The voltage the memory vrms are supplying never makes its way to the IMC.

[Ganz]

Haven't both these boards been out for awhile? Like at least over a month?