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  • Dr. Swag - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    Are you guys sure it's 6 phase? A lot of the b350 boards (Asrock b350 pro 4 for example) had 6 inductors and whatnot but were only actually 3 phases, since the controller was a 3 phase and there weren't doublers. It's possible this is doing something similar which would make it a 3 not 6 phase.
  • ddriver - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    On the subject, which board comes with analogue vrm?
  • jjj - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    Wonder what's going on with X300, it was due in April.
  • Samus - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    Can't come soon enough since the reference design appears to implement a mandatory USB-C, which is rare on B350'
  • Vatharian - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    4x SATA, M.2. ECC memory, PCIe x16, WiFi... it only lacks second LAN and it would be perfect.
  • Lolimaster - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    In the current console port era having more than one pci-e x16 is pretty much useless. I would love x370 mobos with the typical full IO specs, 6+ sata connectors and just a single pci-e slot.

    99.9% doesn't care about SLI/CF.
  • Ian Cutress - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    What if I want my PCIe 3.0 x8 dual 10G card? :)
  • Zak - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    Why do they include on-board video ports instead of extra USB on a "gaming" grade motherboard???
  • Ian Cutress - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    This board takes the Bristol Ridge processors as well, which have integrated graphics. You need at least one onboard port for that crowd - either for dual graphics solutions, or for users who want a compact compute / RAID machine and don't need extra GPU power. Even though 'gaming' is in the name.
  • Zak - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    Then the board should not be called "gaming" if it's targeted at such a wide market besides gamers. Call it "enthusiast" or something.
  • Sergio526 - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link

    I disagree. This board will work with the upcoming Raven Ridge APUs that feature Vega graphics (and the already mentioned Bristol Ridge which has competent gaming capabilities). I've always considered "Gaming" to mean that it will play games fine at at least medium settings. As of the last couple of years, the highest end Intel Iris based chips meet that criteria. Enthusiast is the top end of the consumer equipment (or prosumer not requiring ECC memory). Running 4K on ultra settings while encoding and streaming at the same time.
  • robco - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    That's a nice board. If only I could actually buy a gaming video card...
  • ToTTenTranz - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    Why are none of these motherboards coming with HDMI 2.0?
    Rather, what's the point in not including HDMI 2.0, given the licensing price seems to be exactly the same and Raven Ridge APUs *should* support HDCP2.2 encryption?
  • Mr Perfect - Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - link

    Maybe it's limited by the APU? At the moment, it's only the A series APUs that are out and those only support 1.4a. http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/processors/deskt...

    Maybe when a Zen APU gets dropped in the board it can utilize 2?
  • Alistair - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    Create one with 2 x M.2 slots and I'm sold ;)
  • LogitechFan - Monday, July 3, 2017 - link

    Not possible with crapAMD chipsets. Even if they do something like Asus Z270i Strix, one M.2 port will not be tubo speed and the other one is not (look at all X370 ATX boards, same limitation on all of them with 2xM.2, which are only a few and all are from ASSrock). Thus if you want to run them in raid 1 for instance, you will need to forget about turbo speeds and just have it at the slower speed of the second port. Typical crapAMD with its B-grade garbage for affordable prices. The only thing they are good for is making a splash.... and then you wait and buy a new intel :D
  • barleyguy - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    :rolls eyes:
  • barleyguy - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    B350 supports XFR, AFAIK. This is the first article I've ever seen saying otherwise, and I have seen my 1500x run at 3.9 Ghz on a B350 board without manual overclocking.
  • Valantar - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    There seems to (still!?) be a lot of confusion about XFR - people saying it only works on X SKUs or X370, neither of which are true.
  • Ian Cutress - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    If you look at the slide linked to in the piece:

    http://images.anandtech.com/doci/11170/AMD%20Ryzen...

    Taken from AMD's press deck.

    Additional: OK, now I've reread it. It says that the X370 doubles the range of XFR. I'll update the post.
  • Ian Cutress - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link

    Actually, looking at it again.
    All non-X CPUs have +50 XFR
    All X CPUs (except the 1500X) have +100 XFR
    The 1500X has +200 XFR

    AMD isn't making this clear.
  • meacupla - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - link

    The only thing I don't really like about this board are the locations of the SATA and power connectors.
    In your typical mITX case, those connectors are going to be hella annoying to plug in and route

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