ASRock X570 Creator Motherboard Analysis: The New Buzzword
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Thomas
I always love Buildzoid's rambling breakdowns on motherboards, but in this case I was hoping for a Gamer's Nexus review, specifically because of the on-board Thunderbolt 3. You guys have been increasing your coverage of content creator/productivity subjects, and you would be the perfect people to have a look at TB3 on AMD platforms (beyond experimental stuff like Level 1 Tech/Wendell's impressive stab at TB3 on Threadripper) I saw a comment on Puget Systems that they are skeptical that TB3/AMD will work at all, so I'm curious what you guys would see messing around with it a bit.
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I always love Buildzoid's rambling breakdowns on motherboards, but in this case I was hoping for a Gamer's Nexus review, specifically because of the on-board Thunderbolt 3. You guys have been increasing your coverage of content creator/productivity subjects, and you would be the perfect people to have a look at TB3 on AMD platforms (beyond experimental stuff like Level 1 Tech/Wendell's impressive stab at TB3 on Threadripper) I saw a comment on Puget Systems that they are skeptical that TB3/AMD will work at all, so I'm curious what you guys would see messing around with it a bit.
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Robert
Do a video about which X570 board with a ridiculous nvme/m. 2 fan armor thingy is best for stuffing your Aorus gen 4 pcie4 ssd behind. The Aorus gen 4 has its own copper heatsink in order to reach its speeds. Will any of these monstrosities fit such an SSD behind their marketing heat trap? Do any of them actually have a blower that could blow over top of an integrated heat spreader? Is this an insane idea? All of these questions need to be answered.
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Do a video about which X570 board with a ridiculous nvme/m. 2 fan armor thingy is best for stuffing your Aorus gen 4 pcie4 ssd behind. The Aorus gen 4 has its own copper heatsink in order to reach its speeds. Will any of these monstrosities fit such an SSD behind their marketing heat trap? Do any of them actually have a blower that could blow over top of an integrated heat spreader? Is this an insane idea? All of these questions need to be answered.
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Victor
10G master race! Really excited to see consumer 10G parts start showing up. Prices are dropping fast now with a handful of very reasonably priced switches from Mikrotik. Also seems like so many boards are complete overkill on power stages given how poor the overclocking potential is on Ryzen 3000. Odd. Sure the internet nerds will never cease to complain how poor the lower end power stages are despite the fact it is likely completely irrelevant.
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10G master race! Really excited to see consumer 10G parts start showing up. Prices are dropping fast now with a handful of very reasonably priced switches from Mikrotik. Also seems like so many boards are complete overkill on power stages given how poor the overclocking potential is on Ryzen 3000. Odd. Sure the internet nerds will never cease to complain how poor the lower end power stages are despite the fact it is likely completely irrelevant.
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Vinny
What would be good is if you also reviewed the board in general, like fan placement. But also the BIOS usability, and the company reputation for updating it, basically demonstrate the whole package. I followed your advice in the past and bought and ASUS X470 board that had great VRMs according to you but it was riddled with other issues (manufacturer BIOS updates lacking being one of them. So yes, I could have used a bigger picture than the VRMs.
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What would be good is if you also reviewed the board in general, like fan placement. But also the BIOS usability, and the company reputation for updating it, basically demonstrate the whole package. I followed your advice in the past and bought and ASUS X470 board that had great VRMs according to you but it was riddled with other issues (manufacturer BIOS updates lacking being one of them. So yes, I could have used a bigger picture than the VRMs.
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Jeffrey
BUZZWORDS? What do you mean? I'm sitting here on my Content Creator Chair eating my content creator chips and currently deciding whether or not to upgrade my PC. The only PROBLEM I'm having is deciding whether to go with a Gaming motherboard or a Content Creator motherboard because I'm buying the R9-3900x CPU and darn it, it's great at games but also great at video editing so what's a guy to do? Ann Landers please help me!
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BUZZWORDS? What do you mean? I'm sitting here on my Content Creator Chair eating my content creator chips and currently deciding whether or not to upgrade my PC. The only PROBLEM I'm having is deciding whether to go with a Gaming motherboard or a Content Creator motherboard because I'm buying the R9-3900x CPU and darn it, it's great at games but also great at video editing so what's a guy to do? Ann Landers please help me!
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carbonsx
So is the X570 Taichi the only T-top board from ASRock this time around? I've got one and I'm a bit disappointed with my memory performance with 4 single sided B die DIMMs. granted they are 3600C17 and not C16 to start with, but it took until BIOS 1. 80 and the ABB AGESA for them to post at XMP settings, even then they were defaulted to C18 due to Ryzen's dislike for odd number CAS latencies.
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So is the X570 Taichi the only T-top board from ASRock this time around? I've got one and I'm a bit disappointed with my memory performance with 4 single sided B die DIMMs. granted they are 3600C17 and not C16 to start with, but it took until BIOS 1. 80 and the ABB AGESA for them to post at XMP settings, even then they were defaulted to C18 due to Ryzen's dislike for odd number CAS latencies.
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Downwith
There is a significant difference between this board and the MSI Creation board. This board has 8x SATA, and the MSI creation only has 6x SATA. If you messing about with lots of video, you usually need more HDDs, so you need the additional SATA ports. Heck, you lose one SATA just for the scratch disk, and I know people that use two scratch disks! Just saying.
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There is a significant difference between this board and the MSI Creation board. This board has 8x SATA, and the MSI creation only has 6x SATA. If you messing about with lots of video, you usually need more HDDs, so you need the additional SATA ports. Heck, you lose one SATA just for the scratch disk, and I know people that use two scratch disks! Just saying.
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Meteor
It is a 12-phase. Or I should rather say there are enough Vcore VRM components on the board to theoretically build a real 12-phase. But instead, true to form, ASRock runs them as 6 big phases and with doublers instead of just a real 12-phase with a good voltage controller. This might just be the most ass-backwards, least effective VRM design I've ever seen.
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It is a 12-phase. Or I should rather say there are enough Vcore VRM components on the board to theoretically build a real 12-phase. But instead, true to form, ASRock runs them as 6 big phases and with doublers instead of just a real 12-phase with a good voltage controller. This might just be the most ass-backwards, least effective VRM design I've ever seen.
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jubuttib
Someone please tell me if I'm seeing things: At 7: 33, right above the Conclusions bar on the left, it looks like the capacitor's markings say 8XCJ, when from what I can see every other cap in those positions says 89CJ. The other markings are identical from what I can see. Doubt it matters at all, just found it interesting. EDIT: Ah, could be lot number.
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Someone please tell me if I'm seeing things: At 7: 33, right above the Conclusions bar on the left, it looks like the capacitor's markings say 8XCJ, when from what I can see every other cap in those positions says 89CJ. The other markings are identical from what I can see. Doubt it matters at all, just found it interesting. EDIT: Ah, could be lot number.
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mkiss73
At 22: 11, you mention that the retail version of this board has a daisy-chain memory topology. I'm wondering about your previous review of the ASRock X570 Taichi. You seemed surprised in that video that it had a T-topology for the memory. Was the Taichi board sample you reviewed also pre-production? Is the Taichi retail version still a T-topology?
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At 22: 11, you mention that the retail version of this board has a daisy-chain memory topology. I'm wondering about your previous review of the ASRock X570 Taichi. You seemed surprised in that video that it had a T-topology for the memory. Was the Taichi board sample you reviewed also pre-production? Is the Taichi retail version still a T-topology?
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