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BIOSTAR Unveils Racing X470GTA Motherboard: Ryzen 3000 Support and Legacy PCI

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Motherboard manufacturers seem to be rushing the fill the void of cost-effective motherboards with out of the box Ryzen 3000 support, as AMD X570 motherboards start at $170. The latest entrant is the Racing X470GTA by BIOSTAR, priced around the $120-mark, and packing an interesting mix of modern- and legacy connectivity. Built in the ATX form-factor, the board draws power from 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS power connectors, conditioning it for the SoC with a simple 4+3 phase VRM. Out of the box, the board supports all Ryzen 3000-series processors launched so far, in addition to 1st and 2nd generation Ryzen, A-series, and Athlon "Bristol Ridge," which make up pretty much every socket AM4 chip launched so far.

The AM4 socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, and the board's lone M.2 slot. Two PCIe gen 2.0 x1, and a PCI-Express x16 slot with gen 2.0 x4 wiring, make for the rest of the expansion area; while six SATA 6 Gbps ports make the remaining storage options. This is probably the only AMD X470 motherboard to feature legacy PCI slots, using an ASMedia bridge chip. USB connectivity includes two 10 Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2 ports (from which one is type-C), and eight 5 Gb/s USB 3.1 gen 1 ports (from which four are by headers) The lone network interface is a 1 GbE driven by a Realtek 8118AS "DragonLAN" chip. The onboard audio solution is powered by an entry-level Realtek ALC892. Other legacy connectivity includes a PS/2 combo port and a serial COM header. Despite these, there are some wacky enthusiast-friendly features, including onboard buttons for automated overclocking, power/reset; dual-BIOS with a manual 2-way switch, and diagnostic LEDs.



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Not bad at all for the 65W TDP Ryzen CPUs.
 
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Since 3900X and the upcoming 3950X are 105W TDP but consume more than that, the VRM of this board isn't looking robust to handle the voltage bursts easily. My 5c.
 
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entry-level Realtek ALC892 :confused:. How much more something like 1220 costs?
 

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entry-level Realtek ALC892 :confused:. How much more something like 1220 costs?

Really? This is biostar= budget binned motherboards. Buy a sound card
 
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What? Someone would actually design a new X470 motherboard in this day and age? To me, this does not make sense: it is competing with high-end X470 motherboards no doubt being sold off at fire-sale prices. It is possible to make X570 motherboards - and without one, there is no way to get PCIe 4.0 support. Of course, the X570 chip set does have higher power consumption, and an X470 motherboard can be made more affordably, as the article notes. But I find it hard to believe there will be enough demand to make this worthwhile.
 

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ALC 1220 is good enough for me. Thank you.
My original question still stands. How much more does ALC 1220 costs compared to 892?
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The whole point of this motherboard is legacy PCI slots. I deliberately chose this motherboard, so that i could use my Asus Xonar Essence ST PCI audio card, which was the best hardware part i ever bought.

Refresh of the Racing X370GT5.

I had the X370GT5 recently - it did not overclock Ryzen 7 2700X even at 4.1 GHz, with latest bios updates. However it did well with Ryzen 5 1600 - 3.8 GHz stable overclock at 1.355 Volts.
 
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