News Asus' ROG X670E-I Has a Chipset on a PCIe Stick

[Admin]

Asus' new AMD X670E Mini-ITX motherboard comes with a chipset on a PCIe stick.

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[TechieTwo]

It seems like there are plenty of I/O options on the X670e mobos but I guess if you have some unusual situation that requires more then the add-in board might meet your needs.

 

[greenreaper]

Well, the add-in board is what makes it an X670E board in this case, because it adds the second chip in the chipset. Without it, it'd just be a B650E. Since this is an ITX motherboard it makes sense to avoid extra floor space usage for a chip that may not be there - they probably use the same board for a B650E ITX without the slot.

 

[Gillerer]

About the ASRock solution showcased on Level1Techs:

At least on that prototype board, it required an additional control interface using a ribbon cable and a motherboard built especially with a connector for it - not just compatible UEFI firmware.

 

[Keng Yuan]

Well, I just got my new motherboard for 70 dollars

 

[TheJoker2020]

If there is one thing that people can agree on is that the new AMD "Chipset" structure allows for far more creativity than ever before, if people wish to find creative uses they can...

At this point, are 3+ out of the question.?

I will ask and answer my own questions.

"3+ Chipsets, but why, for what purpose".???

They allow simple "hub" style expansion, the same chip alleviates driver and related issues, it allows multifunctionality per chipset, so not just expandability, but options. And then there are allof the answers I cant give because I havent thought them up, and then there are those that no-one has thought up "yet".! I am not sating that AMD "Will" repeats this "Chipset" concept going forward, but I expect they will going forward, and that opens up future options that we cannot consider because future...

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

I love the small footprint of mini-ITX, which still keeps the full PCIe 5.0/4.0 slot. While I don't need the additional ports of the additional Promontory 21 chipset, I'd like to have that Marvell 10GBe chip native on the board instead of the Intel 2.5GBe chip, which has had issues in the past. If that 10GBe port was onboard, I don't know what else I would need as an add-on. Maybe a PCIe RAID card if you were running a small-but-powerful NAS.