FINALLY! someone reputable is reviewing this. Bought it for my Ryzen 7800X 3D / 7900XTX MIni ITX build in my Cooler Master NRP200Max case

Wendell. Man. Keep doing what you do. Your crazy projects give me hope for my own.

Been looking for a video about these ITX AM5 boards for a while, thanks!. Love to see how this one compares to the ROG STRIX B650E-I

I have a 7950X locked to ~80w driving 10 16TB drives and 4 Optane 905P(960GB) for a compact TrueNAS Scale server. Little did i know that the iGPU requires adding ROCm to get it working with kubernetes/docker/apps. Little did i know that my dreams would be shattered of an ultra low powered all in one server that can both record live TV with Plex, transcode using CPU on TDARR, and allow me to remotely replace those files from a backup recording server in case either the recording, or transcode failed. Right now any kubernetes/app cannot access a directory with an active SMB share, the image wont even start up if the SMB service is running. So still need a seperate machine to record and transcode, and my file-server-only box now has a 7950x, when a 5350GE/12100 would be more than enough for this use case. I'm just glad they're working on the issue, and i hear TrueCharts are doing something with ROCm, i dont know if its on a per-image basis for their repository(such as TDARR, PhotoPrism, and JellyFin), or if its going to be a ROCm image that enables the GPU for all other images

Really looking forward to this. Had a plan to build this as well.

Awesome-ness! Running my first Gigabyte MB (B650M Aorus Elite AX, 7700X) and have been thrilled. Everything has just worked, nothing buggy. About to install the GC-Maple Ridge Thunderbolt 4 add in card and expecting great things, especially after I get a Gen5 Nvme (soon as prices normalize to actual user level ...lol). Thx for all your hard work (and next level pearls of wisdom).

Excited to see this series. I have been looking to build in the N1. Need to downsize to something that can be tucked away in an apartment. Was skeptical of using those m2 adapater though my use case is not mission critical.

I'm planning the exact same build with the B650i and Jonsbo case for a Home Server upgrade. Hopefully the ECC DDR5 gets sorted as that will be a deal breaker for me

Can't wait to see the ITX server since I really didn't see it as an option for my new server. But maybe I should wait with my server build if the N1 turns out to be a good alternative. In that case I hopefully avoid the devorce that might be coming with building a server in an old R5 case and put into the laundery room wich was the original plan.

When I saw Zen4 could support ECC I thought the 7600x could make a nice little server with the iGPU allowing more NVME to cache SATA HDD. So many seemed to miss the application though the 7600 is better priced MSRP, only where I live the 7600x has fallen below 7600 pricing. Just knock off a little peak boost frequency, undervolt and restrict the TDP a bit and cooling should be no issue, while losing hardly any performance.

Good job, Wendell! Your reviews are my favorite...🇺🇸 😎👍☕

Did I hear fine? Did you say that there is a workaround for motherboards that do not offer PCIe bifurcation??!! 😮

Nice job Wendell!

Yes! Thank you!

how were you able to detach that fan connector for the M.2 fan ? I almost ripped it off and then read on the internet that others are also struggling with that...

For the ECC memory there was a BIOS update after this video was posted. From reading some reddit posts it seems like the possibility of ECC is a thing again?

I'm stuffing a 13500 into a supermicro 3u 16 bay chassis. UHD770 for transcoding, and one heck of an upgrade from my old dell r510

Would be interesting to see how long does it take to boot with which BIOS settings. It seem very inconsistent between memory brands and frequencies. I've runing same mobo in air cooled formd t1 with 7900 PBO'ed to X specs and 6k CL30 G.Skill. But even with MCR enabled it would take up to a minute in most cases to boot into the windows... So in the end I decided to downgrade it to MSI's B650 which seem to be much more stable and posts much faster with same memory :(

I'm doing a build with this motherboard at the moment... do you reckon it's worth taking off the stickers of the thermal pads for the m.2 slots i'm NOT using? E.g. I'll be only using the top slot (so obviously i'll take those stickers off), but not the one underneath, or the one around the back. Should i take the stickers off the ones underneath anyway just in case? Or should i keep it on in case one day i do use it?

That motherboard is so sexy. I have an ASROCK B350ITX Fatal1ty gaming board and it has been amazing, I just upgraded to a 5700X cpu so I will be sticking with that system for some time but am just admiring how hot that board you got is. Dayuuum.

I am indeed a crazy person with a Jonsbo n1, 100% plan to use this series as my step by step tutorial (maybe diff motherboard but it looks like a great Mobo for this) to build it out

How are the iommu groups on this motherboard? Did you need ACS patch? Thinking of using this for single gpu passthrough and using the igpu for the host

Any burnout issues with this one? GB doesn't even have a BIOS update for this model for the SOC Vlimit, F4 only?

Think I should take my WD Sn750 pit of its heatsink for installing into this MOBO?

love that dig @ 7:45 💚

I am looking into building a NAS/storage server at some point within the year. The situation with AM5 motherboards not supporting ECC is really frustrating. Like, even $250-tier boards are not supporting ECC. What is going on here? The previous generation supported it.

Can't find it over here. Supposedly came out a month ago, no store carrying it here in EU. Anyone seen it here?

Hey does anyone know why m2a is not showing m.2 but the one on the back does.

Anyone getting 1 long 2 short beeps on this mobo? I've disconnected the GPU and tried three sets of RAM both dual channel and single channel. Gigabyte doesn't publish beep codes.

The gigabyte aorus x570s itx board would thermal throttle and CRASH my sn850 constantly if I left the heat sink on it. I ended up having to take off the heatsink and place a small Noctua fan in the case to blow across the ssd to keep it in check. Hopefully that doesn’t happen with this one

what is the name of the M.2 to 6 x Sata cable Adapter? Where to get it?

Wow, I need somehow how to bifurcate x8 x8 and install full size gpu for node 304… any idea how to do this ?)

You are looking healthy Wendel 👍🏻

So how would you rate this vs the ASRock B650E PG ITX you reviewed?

God this Jonsbo vid can't come soon enough. Wendells finally gotten to me and I've decided to sell my half rack with a handful of old R*20 servers, spent the entire weekend going over hundreds of parts and builds and came to basically this. The only question is can I do 96gb of ECC with 48gb dimms, only 64gb means I'm gonna need another mini PC node.

If this had been an option on zen 4 release, it’s probably what I would have gotten. Unfortunately, no reasonable mITX offerings at that time, so I got the X670E ProArt instead. It’s a shame mITX motherboards usually prefer outright wasting capabilities that the CPU and chipset offers, like just throwing away all those extra PCIe lanes instead of letting us use them to stick more M.2s on the back.

really wanna see this mini itx build!

What's the power consumption when idle?

I chuckled at the Jim Gaffigan moment after you said lilliputian and then used a different voice to represent us, the audience😂

I ended up returning my 7800X 3D for the 7950X 3D for this motherboard and currently in the middle of my build. One of the few with 3-m.2 slots

Doesn't this board have the bugged intel network card?

im considering N-ATX V2 kind of ssf but with full ATX to get 4 m2 ports

How do I turn the little fan off?

does anyone know if it is available anywhere in Europe?

I was hoping you'd check this out, not only does it have a lot of m.2 expansion but because of the fact the the i/o die on Zen4 has 2 RDNA2 CUs means that for server use you effectively you don't need a gpu and can run a pcie 5.0 m.2 card in the one pcie slot for loadsa fast storage.

ITX is getting crazy these days because of how much they have to cram. I wonder how different it would have been if those ITX-only "chipsets" like the X300 that AMD once planned were more popular. Maybe we wouldn't have as much insanity with all these daughterboards and breakout cables just to make ITX functional.

This channel should have 2 million subs..

*_PLEASE ! !_* Review the Asrock B650m HDV. Thank you.

Nice Review 👍 So few choices for AM5 Mini-ITX 😩 Planning to build a Mini-ITX NAS with Fractal Design Node 304 so 4 SATA ports is really a must. Just waiting for the new APUs - want to run a VM on it and exclusively assign the iGPU to it so I can play some games on my TV on it aswell 😅This board and the MSI MPG B650I Edge are the only ones providing 4 SATA connections I am aware of.

Hi Wendell! I'm very interested in a NAS build in the exact same Jonsbo case using the exact same motherboard. Would love if you created a video on that build.

i don't understand why ddr5 was released when you take such a hit on capacity if you want speed and vice versa.

Great review. Currently buying the parts for my new rig now and I am torn between this and the ASUS ROG Strix B650E-I itx board? What's your take on the Asus b650 board?

Sadly this Mainboard is not available in Europe. Maybe gonna import it... :((

Does anyone know the name of the case at 19:40? It looks very nice and I want to use it for my build.

I have this board and cannot get it to POST. I can't even find BIOS version F2

This was the only Mini ITX MOB that had more than one M.2 slots

I would put this pretty baby board in a HAF 932 , the piece of resistance 😂

👌 gotta play dablofour mini edition

I’m not exactly sure why but I decided to skip current latest gen of pc hardware (cpu’s and gpu’s) and will wait for next gen to see what’s out at what performance and power.

80 TB of HDD storage (4 20TB HDDs) plus 24TB of NVME (3 8TB Sabrents) to play with in an ITX configuration? Sounds like fun!

For my 7800X 3D build I ordered G.Skill 6400mhz 32gig ram I'm hoping it'll play friendly with it and I can get those speeds.

I want to pair Ryzen 9 7950x with this motherboard. Does it work well ?

no worries i have a liliputian memory

They suppose to create same tiny card for even with more sata, or other options ))

All I want is a modern consumer ITX board with 10GbE 😢

I'm just kind of stuck with Asus since they include a Temp sensor header on their boards, until I give up on the meme that watercooling has become these days.

Where is the front panel audio connection?

The 7900 is simply the 7900X in 65W eco mode. You can enable the eco mode on any of the AMD CPUs, even the 7950X. People seem to forget ECO mode in these discussions. Just because the 7950X comes at 170W(230W PPT) by default, doesn't mean that you aren't able to configure it down. Same goes for 7900X/7800X/7600X or even 5000 and 3000 CPUs.

I use all the 4 stats ports that's I have with 2 TB ssd

If the F4B BIOS is roughly the same on this board as it is on Gigabyte's others like my B650 Aorus Elite AX... Gigabyte pulled F4B off the site several days ago. I tried it and it was hard to get the system to post consistently with it. Mess with any bios options and it would just crash completely. Luckily, a couple of days ago Gigabyte replaced it with F4 final (non Beta). It works much better, but they left at least one feature out of the BIOS on my board. The ability to disable DDR Power Down is gone. Hopefully it makes a return in the next BIOS version. And yes, running my Hynix M Die DDR 6000 at 6200 is nearly impossible without more voltage than I'm comfortable with.

Hard ? Its also almost 2x as $$$ compared to comparable Intel ITX.

They made that m.2 fan very hard to get out. Not sure why.

Do they make am4/am5 bios mods as they did for intel boards via the tweaktown forums?

keep us updated on the ECC RAM test results please!

just waiting for ECC confirmation

7:30 Are there passive fans? :D

This is going into a ghost s1 with a 7950x and a rx 6800

@11:00 "Why does he never review our stuff?" " I dunno, tell marketing to call something the Gulliver model and see what happens..."

Well Im sold.

Have a request have a unraid server and lockerstor 6704t bit have dual 2.5gb ethernet and looking for a wifi that has dual 2.5 gb, Find that manufactures are using dual 10 gb instead on new equipment and no 2.5gb. Can discuss why this is happening most home users don't need 10 gb and the added cost is not warranted. Looking forward to your response

sorry but memory XMP support is very poor I've tried three different brands of 6000-6400 memory and they all crash the system and only run at stock 5600

Bought this board. Refuses to post. Board turns on, fans on, ram is good. Will not post. I tested all the parts on another, atx Msi board and it booted right up. Crap gigabyte Itx

Ah... all the rear of my Motherboard is cooled - I have a GAMEMAX BRUFEN C1 case 👍👍

ohh no I am late to please the algorithm

I guess the days when ITX boards cost less than $100 are gone.

I hide all my cables with a non-transparent side panel.

Had a system w/ a 7700 in a NR200 case w/ 32GB of RAM and a Noctua air cooler…..$1185. I will hold off on upgrading from a 5700X at that price. Performance gains aren’t worth it.

I am an itx type of guy 😅

That asus board is doing that nonsense with the chipset only to get the higher chipset name, aka branding.

But does it have BlueTooth?

itx is actually more niche than the impression you might get from all the hype around it. ppl build itx to have "the smallest" even if it means trade-offs that you wouldn't have if you just accepted the jump from ATX -> µATX as sufficient in terms of less spacious. itx is hard to keep cool with high end components. compared to µATX the boards have to cut corners (almost literally) to get at least the bulk of stuffs on it that is on the original design. also the price of µATX with the same specs sometimes even UNDERcuts the ATX pendant. while itx is on a whole other level , JUST for the reduction in size. with µATX the reduction in size comes free and you dont get castrated all too much in terms of DIMM slots, USB, VRMs, GPU fit, PSU fit, disk fit....AIRFLOW & features. YES. there IS a justification for itx for sure. but certainly no other than having to accomodate to furniture that does not offer space for ALREADY existing very slim & tidy µATX cases. apart from dimensions it is a downgrade.

Too bad they are so expensive or overpriced...at least in Europe. We can get it for around $370 euros...

I’m here because of ASUS’ fumbling of the 7800x3d fiasco

Wendell, you need to buy some new clothes. Your weight loss is showing through them. Great job btw

Title wrong ;)

I'm the crazy person give me all the sata ports

I really don't like Gigabyte though... my current board (Z390) is from them and their software is still garbage after so many years...

What the holy Jesus was that intro…

I even like the chairs in this set up :) is it vegan leather?

AMD maybe brag too much about their pcie lanes with their cpu and link to chipset. That's the limit to the cpu sadly from the chipset to the cpu that loads the USB too if or else.