DDR5 Dual Channel (SODIMM Slots, up to 5200 MT/s, 96GB Max, memory overclocking)
Expansions:
2x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4.0x4 SSD Slots
1x M.2 2230 Key E Slot for NIC
2x SATA III Ports
1x PCIe 4.0 X16 Slot for GPU (with Metal Fasteners)
Ports:
1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (Alt DisplayPort 1.4)
2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
2x USB 2.0 Type-A
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4
1x RJ-45 2.5G Ethernet
1x Line Out
1x Line In
1x Mic In
FAN/Audio/USB Headers:
1x 4-pin CPU Fan header
2x 4-pin System Fan header
1x Front Panel Audio Header
1x System Panel Headers
1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Header
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So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Quote from Tarkov :
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
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Quote from Tarkov :
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
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Quote from Suryasis :
Quote from Tarkov :
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
nice thx bro, and is there any way to get some kind of card like the pci ones on a header? so we can buy/install/get usb-c ports? fully functional plz? or if it isnt posible what will be our best bet in therm to add more usb ports? ty in advance you best than DrWha btw
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Quote from MerryOctopus611 :
Quote from Suryasis :
Quote from Tarkov :
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
nice thx bro, and is there any way to get some kind of card like the pci ones on a header? so we can buy/install/get usb-c ports? fully functional plz? or if it isnt posible what will be our best bet in therm to add more usb ports? ty in advance you best than DrWha btw
It already has USB 3.1 Header which you can use to expand. On top of that, You can leverage the X16 Slots on this. I know many people, adding different PCIe Expansion cards to run multiple M.2 SSDs. You can leverage that slot for expansions. This does not have any other PCIe slots
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Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
But what's the maximum wattage on this, if it's 100-120w like the other board, it won't clock higher no matter what cooler you put on it.
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Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
But what's the maximum wattage on this, if it's 100-120w like the other board, it won't clock higher no matter what cooler you put on it.
If you enable PBO, and can keep the temps down, then it can. It can sustain only 100W in the itx boards with their integrated cooling, boosting up to 120W for few sec. That can be addressed here by using a powerful CPU Cooler.
Bought this board. love the performance. super easy setup despite what people were saying online. there are 2 SATA III connectors on the board, and I have used both a Corsair air and AIO liquid cooling with it LGA 1700. under load it gets up to 70C Max And usually stays around 58-62C.
I understand the trepidation around Minisforum. their support is none existant. But the product works just as advertised.
one downside is that it doesn't have a PCI-E x16 5.0, would be nice to squeeze the most out of the latest gen graphics cards.
the other is the lack of support for USB-C on the board. you have to give up a USB connector and use an adapter if you want to use the USB C port on many cases for example. For some it's a bigger issue than for others.
Suryasis, massive thanks to you for your finds and the information. Your tie and effort is much appreciated. Picked up the board. Now if anyone has recommendations for a case and a cooler, that would be great. I guess I should mention that I'm not a gamer, but a computer programmer. Aliexpres is fine as I'm abroad at the moment anyway.
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Quote from Suryasis :
Quote from Tarkov :
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
the bios version seems different...
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Quote from MerryOctopus611 :
Quote from Suryasis :
Quote from Tarkov :
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
the bios version seems different...
May I know where?
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On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Quote from Tarkov
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
Quote from Suryasis
Quote from Tarkov
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
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Quote from Suryasis
Quote from Tarkov
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
nice thx bro, and is there any way to get some kind of card like the pci ones on a header? so we can buy/install/get usb-c ports? fully functional plz? or if it isnt posible what will be our best bet in therm to add more usb ports? ty in advance you best than DrWha btw
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On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Here are some performance metrics.
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
But what's the maximum wattage on this, if it's 100-120w like the other board, it won't clock higher no matter what cooler you put on it.
I understand the trepidation around Minisforum. their support is none existant. But the product works just as advertised.
one downside is that it doesn't have a PCI-E x16 5.0, would be nice to squeeze the most out of the latest gen graphics cards.
the other is the lack of support for USB-C on the board. you have to give up a USB connector and use an adapter if you want to use the USB C port on many cases for example. For some it's a bigger issue than for others.
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Quote from Tarkov
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
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Quote from Tarkov
So the other deal was way better, right? Since it came with a heatsink and was ITX?
Two different purposes. That motherboard is ITX and does not have SATA III Slot. Also, you are restricted to the performance of the Cooler they have provided. For very small form factor builds, that is fine.
On the other hand, this has two extra SATA III Ports for more storage and you can mount any high performance cooler of your choice, resulting better performance as that can help AMD PBO to auto overclock higher. If you are building a Mini Tower type of build, want to add a lot of storage and highest performance for the CPU, this one is better suited.
Frankly, neither is better than each other but offer advantages for different use cases.
Bro you a dark magician ... wel explained but plz tell us this mobo can be bios upgraded to 5600 ram? and maybe to 6000 whit kinf of oc or expo idk im just a student whit need of a 16 core to do adobe stuff
Yes, it uses same BIOS as the ITX ones and it has been already posted in multiple reddit forums that it has received over 4 BIOS Updates and now supports the following:
5600 MT/s Memory Support. Even 6000 MT/s worked on some people's machine.
AMD Memory Curve Optimizer
AMD PBO For Auto Overclocking.
the bios version seems different...
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