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https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-mpg-b550i-gaming-edge-wifi-amd-am4-b550-mini-itx-motherboard-mb-35g-ms.html The latest version is a 'MAX' (that for some reason OCUK hasn't got listed) and has a better method of bios reset but either version have optical out.

Which x16 slot do you suggest i chop up?

Correct. AMD regressed their enthusiast desktop platform in terms of flexible PCIe lanes and i've been working around it ever since. The gap to Threadripper is too large to offer value to me so really AMD created a segment gap that i fell into. I'm sure others fell into it and have been...

It shouldn't be hard to understand. I need more lanes, without compromise, than is available from the current 'enthusiast' AM4 platform. I've said this more than once. In reality it doesn't matter what i'm using and it's not me forcing the artificial limitations....the motherboards are. The...

Yes and no with AMD CPUs....a change to the IO die is required now and it would probably have been a good idea to do just that when the IO die was introduced with Zen2 as that was a big design change anyway. This might have been one of the improvements AMD keeps talking about that don't make it...

Most of the PCIe add-in cards are PCIe3.0 or lower and they require lanes to work. Bandwidth or divisions of bandwidth on PCIe4.0 make no differences to whether these cards work correctly or not. This is where i am at with my cards and anything greater than a x1 has to go into the secondary...

I see where you're going with this and i agree with you. Whether Zen3 will support this or not remains to be seen but AMD have left a pretty big segmentation gap WRT usable PICe lanes on AM4 so they will have a market if there is an option. Of course they'll charge for it. Despite all the other...

G.FAST is FTTC. FTTC is not the transmission technology but rather the last mile network topology. G.FAST is still copper from the last node and so FTTC. The correct way to differentiate is between VDSL and G.FAST and these are the transmission technologies. 'Up to' 100Mbps is VDSL. 'Up to'...

What you are asking about it an actual thing, MatteRB26. It's called BYOD....Bring Your Own Device [to work]. Some companies have a policy for it and others don't. In my experience most don't. There are shades of grey within these policies and some employers will provide you with some or all of...

The M.2_3 slot is in an interesting place and it's a pity it hangs off the chipset and not the CPU.

What am i missing with the slot layout Asus have been putting on these TRX40 boards? That's at least 3 boards now. Just seems totally impractical to me.

They did go into the market. They did it belatedly, tried to still make it all about physical photographs (by printing) and did the opposite of what had made them money for nearly 100 years by making the printers expensive and the ink cheap. Just like AMD did with Bulldozer.

Kodak is actually a better story than most people realise with lots of twists and turns. It was a Kodak engineer that invented the digital camera.

Intel CEO knows his company products are about to get ripped a new one. AMD have had this strategy for years with their GPU and it hasn't worked. I was surprised he didn't learn this speech and deliver it like a CEO. Was a really amateur delivery.

Not all b-die is the super-duper stuff everyone seems to think it is. These kits are 16-18-18 so that tells you they're not that great quality. B-die with these timings behaves more like e-die but can operate well past the frequencies and voltage e-die can. I found that increasing the dram...

Thanks for the clarification.

Ok, i'll re-quote Minstadave So which is it? Same process, better binning or new process, not binning? If it's a new process with the same underlying architecture and configuration of Zen2 then it very much smells like a Zen2+ even though AMD haven't shown marketing as such this time around.

How so? Zen>Zen+ was a process progression. If Minstadave is correct it's an equitable situation, no?

So this refresh is basically Zen2+?

Discuss: Zen is an SoC and is bound to a chipset by a bios. If the chipset was initially ignored any Zen CPU would work in any AM4 socket with basic generic CPU-biased microcode.