Wednesday, March 29th 2017
BIOSTAR Intros the X370GTN Mini-ITX Socket AM4 Motherboard
BIOSTAR today introduced the first AMD X370 chipset based socket AM4 motherboard to the market, with the X370GTN. The board comes with out of the box support for AMD Ryzen processors, with TDP of up to 95W. It draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 4-pin ATX power connectors, and conditions it for the AM4 SoC using a 7-phase VRM. The socket is wired to two full-length DDR4 DIMM slots, supporting up to 32 GB of dual-channel DDR4-3200 memory; and the lone PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, besides some of the I/O ports.
Storage connectivity includes four SATA 6 Gb/s ports from which two are directly wired to the AM4 SoC, and one 32 Gb/s M.2-2280 slot with NVMe booting support (reverse side). USB connectivity includes two 10 Gb/s USB 3.1 ports (including a type-C port), and six USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, two via headers). The board features BIOSTAR's Hi-Fi onboard audio solution, and a gigabit Ethernet connection driven by Realtek DragonLAN controller. Display outputs include DVI and HDMI.
Storage connectivity includes four SATA 6 Gb/s ports from which two are directly wired to the AM4 SoC, and one 32 Gb/s M.2-2280 slot with NVMe booting support (reverse side). USB connectivity includes two 10 Gb/s USB 3.1 ports (including a type-C port), and six USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, two via headers). The board features BIOSTAR's Hi-Fi onboard audio solution, and a gigabit Ethernet connection driven by Realtek DragonLAN controller. Display outputs include DVI and HDMI.
29 Comments on BIOSTAR Intros the X370GTN Mini-ITX Socket AM4 Motherboard
Can't wait to see what other manufacturers offer!
and they are mostly priced fair
Remember, this is a biostar board. They are not exactly the high end. When gigabyte/MSI/asus get in on the mini ITX X370 game, expect even better boards.
ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac that has 8 usb ports, 2 gigabit INTEL lan controllers and wireless AC plus 2 hdmi outputs.
Not impressed at all so far.
Am i the only one who finds the AM4 brackets such an eye sore? lol
The best thing this board does is hopefully get the other MFGs moving with their options.
AMD: Tell your board partners to get off their asses and make proper enthusiast iTX boards, you wont get any $$$ from me & many others until then. Lost a sale to me last cycle for this exact reason.
There is no reason for this board to be based on the x370.
This board is another hodgepodge from Biostar and shouldn't be more than $120 as another poster mentioned. I applaud them for trying but the execution is off and really don't see them selling many of these outside of currently being the only option.