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Biostar Racing X470GTN

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Biostar gets in the Ryzen 2000 game in a very small way. The Biostar Racing X470GTN packs a lot of motherboard into the tiny Mini-ITX package. With a price of less than $125, it's one of the more affordable Ryzen motherboards, yet its performance doesn't disappoint and matches the ASRock Taichi.

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There will always be a happy little corner in my heart for Biostar. I owned a TF-550 back in the Athlon X2 days.... It wasn't great at all, but it was good enough, and cheap enough for me at the time, and it never failed me. It's somewhere in storage now--maybe I'll have it bronzed like my grandma's first pair of shoes!
 
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I've found with my X370GTN that the M.2 is accessible in a few modern cases through the CPU backplate cutout on the motherboard tray. This has proven true in the Fractal Design Node 202, Corsair Carbide 600Q, and Lian-Li PC-05.
 
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X470 in mITX form factor is interesting for me... building a mini Ryzen PC would be cool.
 
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Would have liked to see some discussion of the VRM and VRM cooling in this one - the board may overclock well, but those heatsinks are miniscule and on a higher end CPU it could prove to be an issue.

DVI on the rear I/O seems a bit pointless given that it's a legacy connector and the HDMI could easily be adapted to DVI if needed, rather than taking up rear I/O space that IMO would be better off as additional USB, or even just externally accessible buttons for power/reset or BIOS flash like ASUS boards have.
 
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Not sure why anyone would purchase this when the ASRock ITX boards offer better onboard LAN/audio solutions plus 802.11ac/Bluetooth for the same money.
 
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aporetic said:
Not sure why anyone would purchase this when the ASRock ITX boards offer better onboard LAN/audio solutions plus 802.11ac/Bluetooth for the same money.
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Because it got a 9.6 at Techpowerup, of course! That means the board only needs to be 4% better than it is to be literal perfection.
 
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Wait, you do motherboard reviews with performance comparisons across different platforms? That doesn't make any sense. Isn't the point to see if various boards play reform differently with the same CPU, RAM and so on? If not, how is this not mostly a measure of CPU performance?

Other than that, the board itself looks identical to my X370GTN (think I read something somewhere about an updated audio solution, but the specs are the same at least), but it looks like they've made some significant strides in both BIOS and software features and usability. Hope some of that trickles down to the previous gen.
 
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