this motherboard right here is the asrock x570s phantom gaming riptide now this board is coming in
at around 180 msrp and it's a refresh essentially what's asrock doing releasing a motherboard
all this time after zen 2 boards were launched and the original x570 motherboards were launched
back in 2019 and you may be wondering is there any difference between an x570s for
example or maybe you see another mod called an x570p or an x570x and you'll be wondering
is there any differences between these boards and the ones that were released
nearly two years ago and to answer that question directly i actually went and asked amd and i said
amd is there any real functional differences at the chipset level that would make someone
want to say if they had an x570 motherboard go out and buy an x570s and their reply was well
you're getting the same x570 chipset it's just that the motherboard partners like asrock msi
zeus and gigabyte they've all decided to go and refresh these boards and add these
affixiations on which in different cases may mean different things now in the case of the x570s
from asrock the s essentially means silent so the only difference between this and say original x570
that was released back in 2019 would be that this has no chipset heatsink fan so it's going
to be silent and the s stands for silent and then you may be thinking well if you take the fan away
is that going to cause heating issues and here's where we're going to do the full review
of this motherboard right after that tech yes city intro so let's get it on and go
through all the paces of this board to see if it does represent value at 180 us dollars
so taking away that chipset heatsink fan is that going to make a difference the temperatures
and here's where out of the box we got 60 degrees idling and then when we decided to run a stress
test with the graphics card ramped up to full and then also run the m.2 slot at the same time
this is where we again saw really no negligible difference in temperatures increasing and now this
probably has to do with the fact that the pci 4.0 lanes are running from the cpu and of course you
can get an extract performance out of the chipsets own pci 4.0 lanes if you want to but loading up
a graphics card in the bottom x4 slot is really pointless it's just going to add in a little bit
of extra latency and you're going to get worse performance so i don't know anyone who would
ideally want to do this but that said 60 degrees is a fine number in a 25c environment considering
these chipset hubs are rated to go up to 90 degrees and they sometimes they were even sitting
around 80 degrees when i was first testing out the x570 itself back when i was doing the reviews
in 2019 so it seems like asrock have tuned this thing up absolutely fine but going over another
very important part with the motherboard is of course the vrm now here's where we've got a 5950x
we overclocked this to 4.4 gigahertz all cores on 16 course 32 threads so this 10 phase vrm azrox
implemented could handle the 5950x overclocked absolutely fine with temperatures going around 73
degrees max in a 25c ambient environment as well as the heatsink going into the mid 40s now i do
like to run this test for roughly 20 minutes and that will weed out any inefficiencies in the vrm
especially when it's overclocked so if it does fail this or the vrm temperatures get too high
then that's a motherboard that you would want to avoid at least if you're going with higher
end cpus and especially if you are overclocking them now the x570s riptide here has a 10 phase vrm
with 60 amp chokes and also 50 amp mosfets and this did the job absolutely fine where we saw
a maximum temperature of 73 degrees and then 46 degrees on the heatsink and then also out of the
box it took the 5950x to 3.85 gigahertz and here's where you're going to draw roughly 130 watts
direct draw and then from the wall 230 watts and also show you the idle power consumption numbers
two for those people who want to go afk in between working or in between gaming sessions and also one
thing that i like to do is to test the overclock numbers versus the stock numbers because that will
also see how well the vrm scales which is one thing that i have noticed that some mid-range and
low-end boards do very poorly in the past however in case of the riptide it's coming in with a
very good performance figure here on top of the fact that it's got an eight layer pcb in the case
when we looked at the ram where i locked in a 3600 megahertz xmp profile with one t1 t1t this locked
it in first go there's absolutely no problems and this is great if you want to play games with some
of the best fps especially out of the box without having to waste too much time tuning things in the
bios however moving on to the bios this is where this motherboard employs that simple formula
from asrock where they haven't really changed the bios in a couple of years but they don't need to
because it's got everything that you would need from a bios it's lightweight you can maneuver
in it very quickly you can lock in overclocks on ram and cpu very quickly save up to 10 different
profiles and then do other things like tune each of the individual fan headers to custom
profiles and then on top of that you can and this is one of my favorite things about azeroth boards
control rgb from the bios itself meaning you don't have to install any bloatware in windows and
potentially losing some performance whether it's in games or productivity now you do have two rgb
headers at the top one of those being a three pin five volt the other being a four pin 12 volt then
down the bottom you also share that same formula so you've got two of each one at the top one
down the bottom and so far so good for the x570s riptide but here's where things surprisingly get
better especially at this price point where you've got six pwm fan headers you also got two usb
3 outs as well as a 3.2 type c to make 5 usb three outs in total as well as an additional
two usb 2.0 connectors so you potentially have an additional nine usb front out headers if you wish
to then you've got eight usb ports at the back four of those being 3.2 with one of those being
a type c and the rest type a then you've got two 3.1 as well as two usb 2's and a 2.5 gigabit lan
solution from realtek as well as a ps2 port and a hdmi out and the option to add an m.2
wi-fi if you wish to as well as a bios flashback button and then 7.1 audio with the optical out now
speaking of the usb 3 speeds as well as the nik speeds they'll both find in my testing and then
on to the audio testing actually showed one thing that i haven't seen in a long time and that's the
real tech audio on board that works flawlessly at least in windows 11 because usually in the past i
was testing with volume levels of 91 and over i used to see the crosstalk leak but it seems like
asrock have fixed this on the x570s riptide where you can turn the volume all the way up to 100
and the crosstalk is going to be absolutely fine as well as the crosstalk numbers themselves being
minus 88 decibels and this of course is being some pretty impressive numbers when we look at that in
contrast to the frequency response numbers which were also really impressive too we had a minus
1.3 decibel drop off from 20 hertz and under so you're not really going to lose any of those sub
bass frequencies but then from 20 hertz to 2k was pretty much perfectly flat and zooming into
the frequency response curves it had extremely low jitter which essentially means very low distortion
but after 2k here's where things actually got interesting for the audio response where 2k to
10k had a drop off of roughly one decibel and this is basically essentially going to make the sound
warmer so in other words this frequency response is going to be a little bit colored and that's
going to be a little bit warmer and personally i like this but some people might want a pure
flat response curve so that's one thing i will point out but then going on to the audio the mic
in port that worked absolutely fine although it did have heavy noise suppression so it won't be
good for professional recordings but it will be good if you want to play games with your mates and
they be able to hear you clearly on pretty much any cheap microphone and there it all is with the
numbers and basically it's time to give you guys a conclusion especially based around the price
point of 180 and also i have to say is if you're looking for a board that pretty much is solid
in all different areas then this board is going to be it of course i would like to see things
like power buttons added on as well as included wi-fi however especially when we contrast that
to the 8-layer pcb the impressive vrm performance and the impressive onboard audio performance as
well as the feature set especially with all those additional usb ports i have to say that this board
is simply a winner in that regard it's got everything that i would want from a motherboard
personally especially the price point i think it's a very solid board if you're looking to get on the
x570 line and not have a chipset heatsink fan as well where traditionally when they released
the x570 motherboards it was only like the thousand dollar motherboards that had no
chipset heatsink fans but they also had pretty much a motherboard heatsink that would encompass
the whole motherboard itself both front and back so this coming into this price point
with the performance i thought was actually a very pleasant surprise but more importantly i'm
looking to see asrock continue the riptide formula for other upcoming potential future releases with
motherboards i think what they've got here is an absolute winning formula not just in looks
but also performance and it's a breath of fresh air to see asrock releasing a very solid board
to the market however that being said i will say x570 has already been out for quite some time so
how much life it does have left i don't really know just yet and with that aside i hope you
guys enjoyed today's video if you did be sure to hit that like button also let us know in
the comment section below what you think of these x570 refresh motherboards do you think they were
a needed breath of fresh air or do you want to see something different in the tech space love reading
thoughts and opinions as always just like this question of the day here which comes from owen
mitchell and they ask is it safe to buy x mining cards i've always been told to stay away from them
because they're generally thrashed to hell and here's where it depends and that's pretty pretty
much the simple answer is if you're going to buy a mining card go look at the condition that it's
in firstly all the x mining cards that i've bought i've always been able to inspect them physically
and if they're too far gone especially when it comes to having rust on the heatsink and perhaps
even on things like resistors and transistors then i generally tend to stay away from those
cards as opposed to say a recent deal that i got on rx 570s i could visibly inspect those cards
and i was like wow these haven't been mined on a whole lot so you can pick up really good deals
from x mining cards but the simplest piece of advice would be to inspect the card and if you
can especially see it working as well and see how much headroom it has in the overclocks then that
can be another great indicator too but if you're buying them online and you haven't inspected them
then i would try to definitely get some kind of guarantee that'll work for at least three months
or something like that so if it does fail you can get your money back anyhow guys i'll catch you
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