Product page is up on Newegg for the Biostar X370 variant.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138452
Seems like they priced it as the B350GTN. I guess everyone is just confused between the two boards.
Product page is up on Newegg for the Biostar X370 variant.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138452
Product page is up on Newegg for the Biostar X370 variant.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138452
As far as their specs say, no. There's a standard m.2 slot for storage on the back of the board, so you could put a PCIe x1 m.2 Wifi card there I guess, but that's less than ideal in a number of ways. Given Biostar's low market penetration, my guess is reviews will be few and far between. Hopefully someone has some connections at Biostar, or at least with a store that's willing to lend out a review sample.I would like to see reviews of Biostar's mITX boards, and at least one of them doesn't have WiFi which is a big minus for this type of motherboard. Is there a M.2 slot for a WiFi card?
The first two computers I've built for myself had Biostar motherboards. While the first system had no problems with it, the other one died on me and since then I have never brought another Biostar board. Has their QC improved since then their AMD nForce models?As far as their specs say, no. There's a standard m.2 slot for storage on the back of the board, so you could put a PCIe x1 m.2 Wifi card there I guess, but that's less than ideal in a number of ways. Given Biostar's low market penetration, my guess is reviews will be few and far between. Hopefully someone has some connections at Biostar, or at least with a store that's willing to lend out a review sample.
Now, for them to get distribution in Europe going ...
What are some benefits of having a X370 chipset over a B350 chipset in an ITX form factor?
I agree, but it seems like that's the way its going. I doubt the silicon is any different between B350 and X370, so the cost difference is probably small. Oh, and judging from the heatsink on my Biostar X370GTN (and the fact that I can't see the edges of the chip beneath it), these chipsets are tiny.Pretty but I still can't see the allure in a 370 board on such a small footprint. Aside from maybe better VRM on the 370 board.
Saw that a day or two ago, it looks great. Almost makes me regret getting the Biostar, but I'll probably be happy with it (even if the Asrock is better laid out). Still, it's about time there's some choice in this category!
Testing and QC issues?Yea, dont know why they took so long to come up with their ITX.. usually they are pretty fast. :/
The way I see it, the argument for ITX with a dGPU is that the dGPU is the only AIC 99% of users ever install. To add to that, most users these days don't have more than 2-3 storage devices. As such, why waste space on having a huge motherboard that you'll only use the most basic functionality of? And why waste space on a case large enough to fit that unnecessarily large motherboard?How do these AM4 ITX boards even make any sense, until we have AM4 Zen-based APUs? Srsly.
Having to put a video card on one of these units makes NO sense. If I want to use an USFF case, then I DONT want to put a video card in. Out of the cases that I would want to use, you literally can't fit a video card anyways. But I would love to have the computational capability of Ryzen in such a small package.
The way I see it, the argument for ITX with a dGPU is that the dGPU is the only AIC 99% of users ever install. To add to that, most users these days don't have more than 2-3 storage devices. As such, why waste space on having a huge motherboard that you'll only use the most basic functionality of? And why waste space on a case large enough to fit that unnecessarily large motherboard?