Asrock have new mad motherboards at Computex Blimey, there's no stopping them 1. X299 ITX with 4 SODIMM slots - there have been a few predictions for using SoDIMMS to make room for 4 slots. Look very smart with 2 pairs - room for CPU cooling?? 2. H110 Bitcoin mining Motherboard - this made me think of you TMDD! Such PCI-E slottage. More 1 lane slots than you thought were humanly possible 3. X370 ITX - that'll please a lot of potential SFF Ryzen adopers If that wasn't enough, the GTX/RX STX MXM barebones PCS like like they're going to be released too. More happy SFF folk and empty wallets. Those MXM GPUS gonna hurt your cashflow!
Just need to mortgage your soul, firstborn and spare internal organs for the chip to go in it... How many thousand you reckon the 18c 'i9' is going to be?
Looking at the size of the Threadripper socket, I doubt we're gonna see one of those in ITX form... there'd be no room on the board for anything else...
Oh, and it's great to see AsRock doing an mITX Ryzen board. That mining board looks like a mad photoshop though
The cheapest 18 core broadwell based Xeon has a price of $2424. Obviously Intel is not going to sell an unlocked 18 core chip for less than that or they would be shooting themselves in the foot by killing Xeon sales.
13 slots on a board, and the potential for another via the M.2 port!? TAKE MY MONEY!! I can consolidate the two rigs outside into one. Yes!
Well it looks like some of the prices have leaked. >=$2400 for the 18c is looking fairly safe given they're [reportedly] asking nearly $1700 for the 12c model. Anyone hoping Ryzen would make Intel lower their prices is going to be pretty disappointed [but probably not surprised].
They won't lower their prices. Intel is still far too known as the performance king, and AMD have work to do in order to prove themselves.
Imma guess that since standard ATX boards are the "bread & butter" of the mobo market, ITX are more "specialized" than most manufacturers wanted for their launch range.
How has nobody commented that they have three-way m.2 raid support on the ITX boards? That's insane speeds for a little ITX rig!
They kind of are lowering prices, the £600, £1000 and £1500 cpus are each getting two extra cores. Of course Intel being Intel they had to sneak in a nasty surprise somewhere, according to the rumours you will no longer get the full amount of PCIe lanes on the £600 cpu but only on the £1000 and above chips.
I suspect that it's a combination a couple of things: mITX is still really quite niche, and the current Ryzen CPUs don't have an iGPU. I reckon that most manufacturers are waiting for the Ryzen APUs to launch and then produce mITX boards for HTPC use and the like.
I posted in the Ryzen Benchmark thread a link to an ebay seller who had a couple of Biostar X370GTN's in stock. They gone now, but I was tempted!
3 way M.2??? Think of the speed and lack of spaghetti! I did look at the riser and wonder if it was a double, but thought nah. Unless the other 2 are on the back... Haven't seen enough to tell either way
