Wednesday, November 10th 2021
EVGA Announces X570 FTW WiFi Motherboard
EVGA today rolled out the X570 FTW WiFi, its second AMD Socket AM4 motherboard. While the X570 DARK is aimed at professional overclockers looking to squeeze the most out of Ryzen 5000 series processors, the X570 FTW is aimed at a slightly broader audience—enthusiasts. The board comes with four DDR4 DIMM slots to illustrate this, compared to two slots (1 DIMM per channel) on the X570 DARK. The board pulls power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, and 8+4 pin EPS. It features a 15-phase CPU VRM that's cooled by aluminium fin-stack heatsinks. The Socket AM4 processor is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, two PCI-Express 4.0 x16 (x8/x8 with both populated), and an M.2 NVMe slot with PCI-Express 4.0 x4 wiring.
Besides this CPU-attached M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slot, two additional Gen 4 slots are put out by the X570 chipset, cooled by a large aluminium monoblock heatsink. The X570 chipset itself is cooled fanless, which means it's likely the X570S variant. Eight SATA 6 Gbps ports make for the rest of the storage connectivity. USB connectivity includes three 10 Gbps USB 3.1 Gen2 ports at the rear panel, two 5 Gbps Gen1 ports, and two additional Gen1 ports through internal headers. The onboard audio solution uses a Realtek ALC1220 CODEC with SV3H615 headphones amp. Networking connectivity includes Intel-sourced WiFi 6 and 1 GbE. Available to EVGA Elite members, the EVGA X570 FTW WiFi is priced at USD $499, about $200 cheaper than the X570 DARK.
Besides this CPU-attached M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slot, two additional Gen 4 slots are put out by the X570 chipset, cooled by a large aluminium monoblock heatsink. The X570 chipset itself is cooled fanless, which means it's likely the X570S variant. Eight SATA 6 Gbps ports make for the rest of the storage connectivity. USB connectivity includes three 10 Gbps USB 3.1 Gen2 ports at the rear panel, two 5 Gbps Gen1 ports, and two additional Gen1 ports through internal headers. The onboard audio solution uses a Realtek ALC1220 CODEC with SV3H615 headphones amp. Networking connectivity includes Intel-sourced WiFi 6 and 1 GbE. Available to EVGA Elite members, the EVGA X570 FTW WiFi is priced at USD $499, about $200 cheaper than the X570 DARK.
30 Comments on EVGA Announces X570 FTW WiFi Motherboard
Check prices of Z690 motherboard and after call your lord ;)
There are plenty of good AM4 ATX contenders for CPU or RAM OC that don't cost $499. Dark is unique so whatever (but even then, hard to manage these days with the Unify-X and Unify-X Max existing). This one's just milking it.
No Wifi 6E, and the Gen2 connectivity on the back is just sad for a high end X570. Otherwise standard I/O, VRM is strong but isn't better than the competition, and they're not the only one with good heatsinks.
Remember, there is only one CPU release left (Zen3+3Dcache in Q1 2022) before the switch to AM5.
The article says that this is aimed to the overclocking crowd, I doubt that they care about features you are talking aboutMy bad, apparently I can't read
For desktop usage, I'd buy Proart x570 for similar money
What I would like to see: someone get this, and mod the VRM heatsinks to fit on a CPU instead. Add a couple of 40mm Noctua fans, and see how much power they can handle. Those look like they have more surface area than most low profile CPU coolers.
I wish they would start using parallel 24 pin atx sockets on high end boards though.
On the other, most Ryzen users are already settled in, and have either bought into other expensive boards like the Aorus Extreme, Taichi (or Aqua), or Crosshair Extreme, so there isn't much of a market left for this mobo to partake in.
That being said, the CPU wars are far from over, and we're supposedly going to see a final batch of AM4 Ryzens with the extra cache arriving around the holiday season (also a good time to release a new product), and the FTW board is a nice, mostly black board for those who want such an aesthetic. If the FTW BIOS is similar/same as the DARK, then it's going to have some major, user-friendly, tunability out of the box compared to the cludgier BIOS options from Asus or Gigabyte.
AMD claimed up to 15% gaming perf boost. Couple that with 300-500 MHz speed bumps, 125W TDP, and you have AMD's first response to ADL.
Also, you have a donkey with insider information on future chip launches? Damn, that must be some animal.:cool: