**The AMD X570 Motherboard Review**

If you're looking to build a small form factor AM4 system, there are limited options available on the market. However, with the release of the AMD X570 motherboard, enthusiasts and builders have a new option to consider.

One of the key features of this motherboard is its fan header layout. If you're rocking an AIO (all-in-one) liquid cooler, it generally has some fan headers coming off of it, along with some fan cables to connect your radiator fans or other peripherals. The board also features a pair of 50/50 RGB headers, which are pretty cool if you want to bling out your system.

Moving on to the bottom right corner of the board, we get four SATA ports and six ports, which are all natively controlled by the X370 chipset. These are kind of sandwiching a single 20 pin USB 3.0 header, as well as one USB 2.0 header on the board. On the rear IO panel, you'll find a single PS2 port, five USB 3.0 ports, a single dual-link DVI and HDMI out, an Ethernet LAN port, and your usual fanfare of 3.5 mm audio jacks and Optical SPDIF out.

**Overclocking Capabilities**

Before we dive into the testing hardware, let's quickly go over the overclocking capabilities of this motherboard. I was able to hit 4.1 GHz at 1.42 volts with my Ryzen 5600X CPU, which is rock solid stable running for over an hour. This is impressive, especially considering that the X570 chipset is not designed to handle high-end overclocking like the X370 or X399 chipsets.

**Testing Hardware**

For this review, I chose a few key components to test out the motherboard's capabilities. First up was the Ryzen 5600X CPU, which has six cores and 12 threads, with a 95W TDP part that is a bit more power-hungry than my previous tests. However, since I wanted to push the limits of the board, I decided to go with a 95W TDP part instead of the 65W TDP one that the Ryzen 5600X has.

The CPU itself is being cooled by a Corsair H110i GT (280mm) AIO liquid cooler, which is totally overkill for the 1600X in my opinion. However, I didn't want to be limited by thermal issues during overclocking and testing, so this should do a nice job of keeping the CPU cool.

For video cards, I chose a GTX 1070 Mini from Gigabyte, which seemed like an appropriate GPU for this board at the factory default speeds out of the box. My boot drive is the Adata SX900 SSD, with a 52GB capacity. Finally, my power supply is the HX 750W from Corsair.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm very impressed with this motherboard, and I think it's a great option for small form factor AM4 systems. The X570 chipset provides plenty of features and capabilities that should appeal to enthusiasts and builders. Of course, like any board, there are some compromises - you don't get SLI support, and the M.2 slots are limited.

However, these trade-offs aside, I think this motherboard is a great option for anyone looking for a compact AM4 system with plenty of features and overclocking capabilities. It's also worth noting that this is one of the first X570 motherboards available on the market, so we should see more options become available in the near future.

**Recommendations**

If you're interested in buying this motherboard, I've left a link to it in the description below. However, please note that availability and pricing may vary depending on your location and retailer. In the meantime, be sure to check out my other content on Bitwit Ultra, where I post early access reviews of new hardware and technology before they become available to the general public. Thanks again for watching, and I'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well I am super duper excited because I finally get to show you guys the world's first mini ITX am4 motherboard for AMD ryzen this is the biostar x370 gtn it's finally here over a month after the initial release of ryzen and I know world's first sounds a little clickbaity and it might be but I think this is valid this is the first publicly available for purchase am4 miniitx board at least to my knowledge honestly I think ryzen is a is a really good fit for Mini ITX for a couple reasons the first of which is that we can now build small form factor systems with relatively affordable CPUs that are rocking more than four cores and eight threads right so before this motherboard the best we could do on this form factor was the 7700k from Intel with four cores eight threads and I guess you could count the x99 ASRock motherboard that was Mini ITX however it was just awkward as hell it had some weird compatibility quirks when it came to the CPU Cooler not to mention it was incredibly expensive ensive I think it's still retailing for around 250 bucks which is just outrageous not to mention the price that you're going to have to pay for an LGA 2011 processor with you know 8 core 16 threads when you can get one on the ryzen side of things for much cheaper the other nice thing about miniitx am4 is that ryzen currently offers a number of 65 wat TDP parts that are very power efficient and don't require a ton of cooling so when you're dealing with a small form factor case and you're often limited by how big your CPU Cooler is or can be um it's nice to just be able to throw on one of the stock coolers that comes included with those 65 wat CPUs uh and just be good to go you can even dial in some nice overclocks with like The Wraith Spire or The Wraith Max um and that's obviously going to save you some money too on a thirdparty aftermarket CPU Cooler so that's awesome um but let's get down to some of the specs and features of the motherboard itself that's why we're here first of which I'm going to address the elephant in the room which is the x370 chipset we've all sort of been scratching our heads since catching wind of this board because there are several features of x370 that simply can't be utilized on this form factor for instance you get two additional pcie gen2 general purpose lanes over b350 but where are those going to go I mean apart from the four lanes that's eaten up by the m.2 slot on the back of the motherboard which is nice it does support SAA and uh pcie of course and then that's pretty much it so those the rest of the PCI lanes that you get with that with this chipset are sort of wasted there additionally with just one pcie gen 3x16 slot you can't really take advantage of x370s other notable feature which is SLI support so I don't exactly know why we need it on a miniitx board but there you have it and I mean it's not like it's hurting the product unless manufacturers are charging a premium over b350 equivalents that effectively do the same thing and biostar is slated to start selling a b350 version of this board for like 10 to 20 bucks less so I would consider opting for that board assuming it overclocks and supports memory as good as this one that being said for the mere 110 bucks that I paid for this board I wouldn't knock anyone for buying it because it's already pretty affordable taking a look at the rest of the board though we've got our beautiful am4 socket flanked by the vrm which I really know nothing about at this point I do know that it that it does have a heat sink on it that is RGB the LEDs can be disabled most importantly you can configure the uh the color in the operating system or in the Bios now one interesting thing about this motherboard is that it comes fitted with a 4 pin CPU power connector as opposed to the traditional 8 Pin that we typically see on gaming Centric miniitx motherboard so the question there is does that impact or affect our ability to overclock ryzen in any way and the short answer is watch the rest of the video because I will be answering just that you get two dim slots on the board supporting up to 32 gigs of ddr4 at 3200 MHz if you overclock and with the memory kit that I have here which is a GS scale flare X ddr4 kit that's a 16 GB kit at 3200 I was able to hit that rated frequency no problem of course you have to go into the BIOS and dial in your timings and your voltage yourself uh do that manually just like you have to do with um all the existing am4 boards for the most part um but we're running at 3200 which is a big deal because of the significant impact that fast memory has on ryzen gaming performance and it's really nice to see that the first and currently the only Mini ITX A4 motherboard is able to do this and run it at that frequency just above the dim slots you get your only two system fan headers which are four pin pwm although I do wish there was a third one that's okay though um based on the price point it's a fairly entry-level board I know and and if you're rocking an AIO they generally have some fan headers coming off of them some fan cables to connect your radiator fans or the worst case scenario you could always use a fan splitter something like that uh next to the fan headers you get a pair of 50/50 RGB headers which is pretty cool if you want to bling out your system and then if we work our way over to the bottom right corner of the board we get four SATA six ports which are all natively controlled by the x370 chipset and those are kind of sandwiching a single 20 pin USB 3.0 header you also get one USB 2.0 header on the board as as well on the rear IO you'll find a single PS2 Port 5 USB 3.0 ports which is quite generous a single dualink DVI and HDMI out which you cannot use with ryzen because ryzen does not have an igpu so these are really meant for the upcoming apus on am4 that should be here relatively soon I don't know exactly when they're dropping but we should see some pretty cool htpc builds using those so that's exciting there's also an Ethernet landport and your usual Fanfare of 3.5 mm audio jacks and Optical spdif out now before we discuss the kind of overclock I was able to hit with this board let's quickly go over the testing Hardware starting with the CPU I chose the ryzen 5600x which has six cores and 12 threads it's also a 95 watt TDP part I wanted it to be 95 Watt and not 65 watt just to test the power limitations of that 4pin CPU power connector uh the CPU itself is being cooled by a Corsair h110 IGT which is a 280 mm radiator uh AIO and it is totally overkill for the 1600x in my opinion however I did not want to be limited by uh I don't want to be thermally limited in this test for overclocking and stuff so that's going to do a nice job of that we've also got the 16 gig gskill flare X ddr4 3200 MHz kit that we already discussed for our video card we have the GTX 1070 mini from gigabyte seemed appropriate for this board which we're running at the factory default speeds out of the box our boot Drive is the adata sx900 SSD it's a 52 gig capacity drive and finally our power supply is the HX 750 watt from Corsair on that note let's talk about overclocking specifically were we limited in any way by that 4 pin CPU power connector well I'm happy to report that our 1600x was able to hit 4.1 GHz at 1.42 volts Rock Solid stable running 864 for over an hour now and it's looking good guys it's looking real good it doesn't seem like we're running into any issues with that 4 pin CPU connector when it comes to ryzen overclocking so just to reiterate we got 4.1 GHz on on the 1600x our ddr4 kit is running at 3200 MHz these are the same frequencies that I've been able to hit on high-end x370 motherboards that are full ATX form factor so altogether I mean that's that's almost I think that's good enough for me that does it for me um I don't feel like there's really any compromise here apart from not being able to SLI or you know limited m.2 slots you still get one but still overall this is a fantastic board and I would recommend it if you're in the market for small form factor am4 system also because it's your only option at this point so um hopefully more boards like this are to come in the near future and I'm going to be building a system with this specific board so be sure to stay subscribed or get subscribed to the channel so you don't miss that it's going to be really cool uh but that's going to do it for now guys let me know what you think of this mobo down in the comments below and feel free to toss me a like on the video If you enjoyed it I've also left a link to this motherboard in the description so you can check it out if you want to buy it I'm not sure if it's uh sold out still or if it's back in stock but I I'll leave links down there you can check it out also feel free to subscribe to bitwit ultra for a buck 50 a month it's my Early Access ad free Channel you can back out any time the first two weeks are completely free as always guys I'm cow a bit wit thanks again for watching have a good one and I'll see y'all in the next videowhat's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well I am super duper excited because I finally get to show you guys the world's first mini ITX am4 motherboard for AMD ryzen this is the biostar x370 gtn it's finally here over a month after the initial release of ryzen and I know world's first sounds a little clickbaity and it might be but I think this is valid this is the first publicly available for purchase am4 miniitx board at least to my knowledge honestly I think ryzen is a is a really good fit for Mini ITX for a couple reasons the first of which is that we can now build small form factor systems with relatively affordable CPUs that are rocking more than four cores and eight threads right so before this motherboard the best we could do on this form factor was the 7700k from Intel with four cores eight threads and I guess you could count the x99 ASRock motherboard that was Mini ITX however it was just awkward as hell it had some weird compatibility quirks when it came to the CPU Cooler not to mention it was incredibly expensive ensive I think it's still retailing for around 250 bucks which is just outrageous not to mention the price that you're going to have to pay for an LGA 2011 processor with you know 8 core 16 threads when you can get one on the ryzen side of things for much cheaper the other nice thing about miniitx am4 is that ryzen currently offers a number of 65 wat TDP parts that are very power efficient and don't require a ton of cooling so when you're dealing with a small form factor case and you're often limited by how big your CPU Cooler is or can be um it's nice to just be able to throw on one of the stock coolers that comes included with those 65 wat CPUs uh and just be good to go you can even dial in some nice overclocks with like The Wraith Spire or The Wraith Max um and that's obviously going to save you some money too on a thirdparty aftermarket CPU Cooler so that's awesome um but let's get down to some of the specs and features of the motherboard itself that's why we're here first of which I'm going to address the elephant in the room which is the x370 chipset we've all sort of been scratching our heads since catching wind of this board because there are several features of x370 that simply can't be utilized on this form factor for instance you get two additional pcie gen2 general purpose lanes over b350 but where are those going to go I mean apart from the four lanes that's eaten up by the m.2 slot on the back of the motherboard which is nice it does support SAA and uh pcie of course and then that's pretty much it so those the rest of the PCI lanes that you get with that with this chipset are sort of wasted there additionally with just one pcie gen 3x16 slot you can't really take advantage of x370s other notable feature which is SLI support so I don't exactly know why we need it on a miniitx board but there you have it and I mean it's not like it's hurting the product unless manufacturers are charging a premium over b350 equivalents that effectively do the same thing and biostar is slated to start selling a b350 version of this board for like 10 to 20 bucks less so I would consider opting for that board assuming it overclocks and supports memory as good as this one that being said for the mere 110 bucks that I paid for this board I wouldn't knock anyone for buying it because it's already pretty affordable taking a look at the rest of the board though we've got our beautiful am4 socket flanked by the vrm which I really know nothing about at this point I do know that it that it does have a heat sink on it that is RGB the LEDs can be disabled most importantly you can configure the uh the color in the operating system or in the Bios now one interesting thing about this motherboard is that it comes fitted with a 4 pin CPU power connector as opposed to the traditional 8 Pin that we typically see on gaming Centric miniitx motherboard so the question there is does that impact or affect our ability to overclock ryzen in any way and the short answer is watch the rest of the video because I will be answering just that you get two dim slots on the board supporting up to 32 gigs of ddr4 at 3200 MHz if you overclock and with the memory kit that I have here which is a GS scale flare X ddr4 kit that's a 16 GB kit at 3200 I was able to hit that rated frequency no problem of course you have to go into the BIOS and dial in your timings and your voltage yourself uh do that manually just like you have to do with um all the existing am4 boards for the most part um but we're running at 3200 which is a big deal because of the significant impact that fast memory has on ryzen gaming performance and it's really nice to see that the first and currently the only Mini ITX A4 motherboard is able to do this and run it at that frequency just above the dim slots you get your only two system fan headers which are four pin pwm although I do wish there was a third one that's okay though um based on the price point it's a fairly entry-level board I know and and if you're rocking an AIO they generally have some fan headers coming off of them some fan cables to connect your radiator fans or the worst case scenario you could always use a fan splitter something like that uh next to the fan headers you get a pair of 50/50 RGB headers which is pretty cool if you want to bling out your system and then if we work our way over to the bottom right corner of the board we get four SATA six ports which are all natively controlled by the x370 chipset and those are kind of sandwiching a single 20 pin USB 3.0 header you also get one USB 2.0 header on the board as as well on the rear IO you'll find a single PS2 Port 5 USB 3.0 ports which is quite generous a single dualink DVI and HDMI out which you cannot use with ryzen because ryzen does not have an igpu so these are really meant for the upcoming apus on am4 that should be here relatively soon I don't know exactly when they're dropping but we should see some pretty cool htpc builds using those so that's exciting there's also an Ethernet landport and your usual Fanfare of 3.5 mm audio jacks and Optical spdif out now before we discuss the kind of overclock I was able to hit with this board let's quickly go over the testing Hardware starting with the CPU I chose the ryzen 5600x which has six cores and 12 threads it's also a 95 watt TDP part I wanted it to be 95 Watt and not 65 watt just to test the power limitations of that 4pin CPU power connector uh the CPU itself is being cooled by a Corsair h110 IGT which is a 280 mm radiator uh AIO and it is totally overkill for the 1600x in my opinion however I did not want to be limited by uh I don't want to be thermally limited in this test for overclocking and stuff so that's going to do a nice job of that we've also got the 16 gig gskill flare X ddr4 3200 MHz kit that we already discussed for our video card we have the GTX 1070 mini from gigabyte seemed appropriate for this board which we're running at the factory default speeds out of the box our boot Drive is the adata sx900 SSD it's a 52 gig capacity drive and finally our power supply is the HX 750 watt from Corsair on that note let's talk about overclocking specifically were we limited in any way by that 4 pin CPU power connector well I'm happy to report that our 1600x was able to hit 4.1 GHz at 1.42 volts Rock Solid stable running 864 for over an hour now and it's looking good guys it's looking real good it doesn't seem like we're running into any issues with that 4 pin CPU connector when it comes to ryzen overclocking so just to reiterate we got 4.1 GHz on on the 1600x our ddr4 kit is running at 3200 MHz these are the same frequencies that I've been able to hit on high-end x370 motherboards that are full ATX form factor so altogether I mean that's that's almost I think that's good enough for me that does it for me um I don't feel like there's really any compromise here apart from not being able to SLI or you know limited m.2 slots you still get one but still overall this is a fantastic board and I would recommend it if you're in the market for small form factor am4 system also because it's your only option at this point so um hopefully more boards like this are to come in the near future and I'm going to be building a system with this specific board so be sure to stay subscribed or get subscribed to the channel so you don't miss that it's going to be really cool uh but that's going to do it for now guys let me know what you think of this mobo down in the comments below and feel free to toss me a like on the video If you enjoyed it I've also left a link to this motherboard in the description so you can check it out if you want to buy it I'm not sure if it's uh sold out still or if it's back in stock but I I'll leave links down there you can check it out also feel free to subscribe to bitwit ultra for a buck 50 a month it's my Early Access ad free Channel you can back out any time the first two weeks are completely free as always guys I'm cow a bit wit thanks again for watching have a good one and I'll see y'all in the next video\n"