Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Turn a B650 into an X670 with this ONE weird trick!”.
Foreign level, one love off label uses and creative things get the live, mixer motherboard, the b650 there’s no e, although it does have the Blazing m.2 and some other stuff, some ddr5 and some pcie Gen 5. There is some Gen 5 here I did a full review of this motherboard. We talked about a special peripheral, but I want to really bring this to your attention, because this is some serious Innovation that ASRock is doing or just they clever. It had a stroke of Genius, oh yeah.
This looks like a pcie card right. Well, what is this pcie card? This is amd’s chipset anybody’s chipset is on this pcie card. I don’t want to call it a b650 chipset, but remember from the AMD motherboard block diagram architecture, Day stuff.
I said: okay am5. We actually have two motherboard chipsets and you could connect both of them directly to the CPU or you could daisy chain them and most of the time they end up being Daisy chained for Signal Integrity reasons rather than connected. You know in a sort of dedicated way. Well, hasrock, those mad Lads, those very mad Lads, Kudos and mad props to you mad Lads. This is the AMD Promontory chipset on a pcie card, which gives us two X4 m.2, underneath our biggie heatsink here, plus 10 gigabit, Ethernet, plus three type, A and one type c: 10 gigabit, USB connections, plus two SATA connections. And yes, you do have to have a special control line connection.
It’S an not just the pcie card. You couldn’t slam this into motherboards that don’t have this special J2 header, which is you know just the way that it is. But this gives you bios control as well, so in our special edition live mixer motherboard does need to be special edition.
We have extra options in the bios for controlling the prom 21, which is our second chipset on a pcie card, says: expansion, kit, x670, x670 expansion. But this is a a b650 live mixer, what’s happening there. This is the other chipsets not on the motherboard.
Your princess is in another Castle. I love this, and so, if you take a look at Linux, for example, and you’re going to use this for Linux, and you look at the Iowa mmu breakdown with iommu turned on plus pcie AER options set appropriately. This is one of the few configurations where you will actually get your Downstream peripherals in their own separate IO. Mmu groups.
That’S awesome! So it’s not just the CPU lanes that separate out into Iowa Mimi groups. It’S also other Downstream peripherals. So when we did the motherboard testing, it’s like, oh, the IMU group breakdown is pretty good here. Well, guess what, with this, it’s pretty good as well, so you get your onboard two and a half gigabit Dragon Lan, along with your 10 gigabit interface here and that’ll, give you some options. If you wanted to, you know, do full VM, virtualization and pass through those pcie devices you totally could now, while you could Rock m.2 raid, or you know, MD admin or something like that in Linux, with your uh two m.2s here remember: you’re still, physically only this X4 interface, if you’re, using slower, m.2 like PCI 3 m.2, that would be fine that won’t even bottleneck because they’re, pcie3 and PCI 3s have the bandwidth to PCI E4. Whereas our interface here is actually pretty quick – and I was hoping – maybe thinking possibly – that they had integrated Thunderbolt into this somehow because there is a thunderbolt header on the live mixer motherboard. But that was not to be. You could add in a thunderbolt controller, one that has the header and that does actually work, but we can’t call it Thunderbolt, that’s pcie4 or pcie over pci4 or the joke that I made in the motherboard review video pcie over carrier pigeon we’re going to phone it In whatever we need to do to get those pcie peripherals wherever we need them, and that is very exciting, so the ASRock live mixer.
Now this is a special edition board, keep in mind, ASRock made it just for me: you’re not going to be able to buy the add-in card or modify your motherboard or anything like that. It’S a special version of the live mixer motherboard just keep that in mind, but I think that azerox testing the waters here if this is an accessory that you would buy, would you buy a pcie, add-in card that turns your X? You know your 650 chipset motherboard into a 670 chipset motherboard, but that gives you 10 gigabit Ethernet and more SATA and more USB and type c and more m.2 that’s sort of muxed on there. That seems like a useful peripheral to me. I think it’s pretty cool uh personally, but I think asrock’s sort of testing the waters from an engineering perspective, but I love that they’re doing that. That’S so awesome so awesome to think creatively, we’ll put the chipset on a pcie card yeah! It’S it’s pretty awesome. I like that, I’m windowless level one. This has been a quick look at the ASRock x670 expansion kit, I’d love to see creative things like this and taking a motherboard chipset and putting it on a pcie peripheral to give us an inexpensive way to mux pcie devices. Brilliant good job ASRock – I want to see more of this. I want to see this basically on every motherboard I can get my hands on. I would love to have a pcie peripheral that, had you know a sound card. This would work great in server motherboards that you want to repurpose as a workstation. It’S like I’m going to use an AMD epic. As my you know, daily driver workstation get one of these cards. Maybe, with an X8 interface do exactly the same thing: throw a sound card on that.
You will sell a lot of them to crazy people. Admittedly, there may not be enough crazy people to make that worthwhile economically, but there would be that segment that gets really excited about such a peripheral, because it’s a pcie card that turns a server into a workstation and that’s pretty awesome, I’m Wendell! This is level one. If you’re new here join us, we like talking about things that are strange and creative and yet somehow very awesome, I’m signing out you find me the level of forms foreign .