The cheapest Thunderbolt 3, AM4, ITX board I could find with free international shipping. Cheapest local was CPL @ $469 + shipping.
Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 $407.82 Incl. GST + $0 Delivery @ Newegg
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Thanks, your post clarified everything. Keep going. Thanks for the input.
If u get 2 its 1140
Unless you MUST have thunderbolt, this is a bad buy. It has a grand total of 4 USB a ports, and no USB 3.2 front header. Yoiu're really better off with a B550 (or b450 if you dont need any of the things i've mentioned).
Edit: Snikeron has made a much better comment then mine.
There's a weird quirk with this gen's motherboards.
For ITX at least, between B550 and X570 it seems better to go with B550 unless you plan on maxing out 2x PCIe 4.0 SSDs
Stuff that B550 has that X570 lacks:
* 2.5Gbps ethernet
* USB-C headers for case front panelThe VRMs have generally gotten a big upgrade for the B550 from the B450 so you could comfortably run 3950x with it, unless you plan on really cranking the volts for OC.
Consensus seems to be — if it's significantly cheaper to get the B550, get the B550.
yep all of the above is exactly right .. but i scored a x570 from amazon UK sale for less than the B550's were going for (which was and is retail pricing and not many were available)…. otherwise i would have gotten a B550 for all the reasons you have listed.
for iTX MB's i would definitely stick with B550 apart from 2 nvme pcie gen4 they don't offer anything more of value and lack in some area's .. :)
I believe the only difference is more PCIe 4.0 lanes on X570 and I think there was something about Gen4 drives bypassing the chipset.
A little confused when you say 'this gen'.
Are you referring to Asrock boards or X570's in general?
Might need to be more specific.My X570 board has everything you listed that is lacking and was $100 cheaper than this deal, and cheaper than any B550 board at the time.
In the context of ITX that's what I'd found to be generally true — but happy to be proven wrong.
Awesome that you got yours for a great deal, but I personally haven't seen anything like that when looking around, so ended up settling for the MSI b550i mpg as it had one of the better VRM arrangements and IO of the bunch for $349.Which x570 board do you have?
What is Display Port input for?
connecting to monitor
It says DP 1.4 INPUT, I think this is to reroute a GPU output to a USB-C output.
Scroll down a little bit here to see graphical representation. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170X-Designare-rev-…
Whoa that's an interesting approach. Kind of clunky, but at least allows you to utilize descrete graphics on the thunderbolt port. But i mean, outside of extremely niche scenarios, when would you really want the extra hassle on a desktop to use a single thunderbolt port instead of a displayPort? Seems a bit overkill.
@priceaintright: I can see the value for docking solutions that run everything (ethernet, 2USB ports, power, display) via a single Thunderbolt connection, but thats really only useful for laptops IMHO.
GPU to TB3
it's to make better use of the thunderbolt 3/ type-c port.
Your gpu's DP Out goes to motherboard's DP In, the video data will then get routed through motherboard's type-c.
Weird advertising. Thunderbolt 3 does 40Gbps, where as the board maker shows 10Gbps which is simply usb 3.2 gen 2 in a type-c interface.
Picked one up for $365 through a price glitch and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who is new to PC building. The socket compatibility for AIO and single m2 slot makes it far from being perfect.
You got charged pre gst price?
it was the "add all to cart" then remove the other items trick. Don't know if it still works
Well done!
This motherboard is almost the same price as a 3700X.