Hopefully the OCF isnt a thousand bucks.

freeagentHopefully the OCF isnt a thousand bucks.

I can’t imagine it’s more than the APEX, currently $749. If they do manage to lose their marbles and price it above that, the only new 2 dimm board is going to be a smeh matx mpower board because Gigabyte apparently doesn’t care about putting out the Tachyon any longer.

I’d like a memory oc focused board, but at or above $600 is too much.

The X870 LiveMixer looks fantastic, but as an X870 board, I have to wonder about the PCI-E lane sharing.

AuxityneThe X870 LiveMixer looks fantastic, but as an X870 board, I have to wonder about the PCI-E lane sharing.

I have the X870E Taichi and I can say that I admire what As Rock do but make sure you read the MB manual for any MB you buy.

They need Thunderbolt 5 directly on the board.

@GFreeman did ASRock comment on a potential release window for the OCF?

ASRock needs to work with AMD to figure out what's killing the 9000 series chips (especially X3D) on their boards. Until that's resolved, I'm avoiding anything they make.

I like the design of the x870 livemixer but with it having 2 gen5 m.2 slots would that have the same effect as z790 model where 1 can be used

MunkusASRock needs to work with AMD to figure out what's killing the 9000 series chips (especially X3D) on their boards. Until that's resolved, I'm avoiding anything they make.

Meh. Who cares?

The failure rate is still way below one-tenth of 1%. That's just the cost of doing business.

At least ASRock is working with AMD to address the issue and has taken steps to reduce the number of cases. Let's remember, ASRock isn't the only brand to have this issue with AM5 CPUs. Furthermore, both companies are working with customers to get replacements sent out when this issue exists.

Nobody's done anything sneaky. Neither ASRock nor AMD have tried to hide this issue, sweep it under the rug, or try to deny anyone an RMA for it.

At least ASRock isn't ramping up voltages intentionally to try and get extra performance out of CPUs when used with their brand of motherboard like ASUS was with Raptor Lake CPUs; at least they haven't completely botched basic security measures like ASUS and Gigabyte have recently.

I really don't understand the gripe. The chances of everything being perfect and working perfectly when you take it out of the box is actually pretty damn high, especially considering how advanced the manufacturing pipelines are on a lot of these modern PC parts.

The fact that a couple hundred units out of the millions of units produced of the most advanced x86_64 desktop consumer CPUs to date, that boost to almost 6.0 Ghz on eight or more cores and 16 or more threads with 3D stacked L3 cache, have fried isn't something I find surprising or unacceptable. In fact, common sense would have me be grateful that these components we have today don't blow themselves up more often considering how much power is pushed through nanometer-wide traces with billions and even trillions of transistors.

Like, what are we complaining about here? That there's a 1 in 100,000 chance you might need to get a replacement CPU and motherboard for your video game machine?

That's what is known as a nice problem to have.

Unless ASRock/AMD are having an "Intel 13th and 14th Gen Degradation Issue"-sized problem then who gives a flying f. You're bound to have an issue with SOMETHING regardless of who you go with. Welcome to technology.