MSI AM4 pron

WhoBeDaPlaya said:

A few years back, some folks at work were crowing about these new-fangled mechanical keyboards.
I brought in the OG and shut 'em up

Mint condition with the original box, except the rubber on the cable has started to disintegrate
Bought it way back when for use with an IBM Thinkpad 760ED when it launched.

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MRFSYS said:

> 4x for NVMe

And, I saw 2 x M.2 ports on that Titanium motherboard (see video above).

So, 2 x M.2 slots must share x4 PCIe 3.0 lanes??

Sounds like the same upstream bandwidth ceiling as Intel's DMI 3.0 link
and I mean EXACTLY THE SAME!

Therefore, expect no benefit from a RAID-0 array of 2 very fast NVMe M.2 SSDs
like the Samsung 960 Pro.

Keep going: what happens if I install an NVMe RAID controller
with x16 edge connector in the slot normally reserved for an x16 GPU?

Will it be allocated all x16 lanes, electrically speaking?

Do Ryzen CPUs have on-chip video? I thought I saw 2 integrated video ports
on the rear I/O panel of that Titanium motherboard.

Stop at 1:06 / 3:16 in the "Top 5 Features" video above.

Frankly, I'm disappointed so far, but I'll wait until we know more
about these AM4 chipsets.


p.s. That Titanium might work well as a "thin client"
that archives large data sets on a NAS, but
if it can't support a modern NVMe RAID controller
with x16 edge connector at full speed, I think I'll pass
on this generation of AM4 motherboards.


EDIT: I want to assemble four of these in a RAID-0 array:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G55Z6985&Tpk=9SIA24G55Z6985

... housed in four of these Syba 2.5" M.2 to U.2 enclosures:

http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=884&search=SY-ADA40112
(they come with a nice thermal pad that transfers heat from the SSD to the enclosure housing)

... wired with four U.2 cables like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAA6W3YY8665&Tpk=9SIAA6W3YY8665

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Ira Wechsler said:

I think you should wait to see the Asus ROG board for Ryzen. It has not been announced but is likely to have a PLX chip on board and more options than the other x370 boards.

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ManofGod said:

For me, as long as I can run my 2 x Sapphire R9 Furies, any good X370 board will be fine. B350 is all I will need for my work computer though.

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Zarathustra[H] said:

I'm amused that in 2017 they are still putting legacy PCI slots on that one on the left. Who still uses those?

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Harney said:

A bit late to the party but i use those and a fair few others in the audio production scene ...without legacy pci slots i would be using pc's from say 5 + years ago or i would have to upgrade both of my pci sound cards to pci-e and this would cost me well over a grand to do so ...so thank the gods for legacy pci and sintech adaptors if i have to use a board without any lagecy slots


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sintech-PC...d=1492600523&sr=1-2&keywords=PCI-E+express+X1

more info if interested


https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/811773-legacy-pci-support-new-mobos-doubt-5.html

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/mus...use-pci-card-pci-e-only-machine-solution.html

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dave343 said:

That's never a good sign... so either they are afraid of what big reviewers like yourself might have to say about their boards, or they just want out of the north american market I guess. Back in the mid 2000's at a store I worked at, we sold quite a few ASRock boards, they were feature packed, and pretty stable when OC'ing with. They seem to still be feature packed, but maybe the quality has gone down and they don't want reviewers looking too deep into them...?

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noko said:

Well the Tachi looks to be very high quality, AsRock should have shipped out the first one to HardOCP for testing and to show.

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VERDICT
The ASRock X370 Taichi is perfect for those wanting to jump into the deep end of Zen for a long-term system build. This board is meant to be used with LEDs, windows, swagger, and posted to YouTube for the world to see.

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Pieter3dnow said:

The bad part is if you see which people they shipped it to that are on youtube, seems that it is not that important any more for ASrock to be on here , giving up is not the best thing to do.

So I googled and found this link on Anandtech and it made me smile https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/asrock-taichi-x370-review.2501149/
Check the comment on below it .

or from Tom's http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asrock-x370-taichi-amd-ryzen-am4-atx-motherboard,4967-3.html


Then you stop wondering why ASrock does not want to ship review samples to [H]ardocp ..

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