Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITX/ac Motherboard

I just had mine arrive today for a mini-ITX build around a Ryzen 1700 and GTX1070.

There are no BIOS updates posted on Asrocks' site yet but was wondering if anyone else had their hands on this board? I'll be taking some pictures tomorrow as I put my system together, might do a quick overview of the whole thing. Ended up going for this because I've heard less than inspiring stuff about the Biostar board, which is the only other one I would have been able to get my hands on.

The BIOS updates do seem to be posted?

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20X370%20Gaming-ITXac/index.us.asp#BIOS

Interesting. When I built my system at the weekend (22nd/23rd) there still weren't any posted. Although I admit I didn't look on Sunday as I was stress testing.

Well, I'm running 2.10 and it seems pretty stable and full-featured. The last time I saw this many option for RAM timings on a motherboard was my DFI X48 T2R (something-or-other)!

edit: Some pics will be heading in when I get the time to crop them down a little.

Hi guys, I have a similar board the "ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac" coupled with a Ryzen 5 1600. It is running the latest Bios 3.00 released on 7/24/2017.
I would say the Bios is pretty spartan, the OC options seem a bit limited, for example when you choose Manual it changes both fields for Frequesncy and voltage, I would of liked to have the voltage kept auto and be able to change it independently, for guidance first at an overclock to be able to see what the mb is setting as voltage first when you modify the frequency.
Secondly seem like the software F-StreamTuning is not able to overclock the processor due to the fact is not an X model, which is strange as all Ryzen's are advertized as unlocked. Also the fan tuning feature is "tuning" the fan attched to cha_fan2, in the end it sets for all percentages the same value ~ 1350 rpm. This makes the noise a bit annoying, especially knowing that the fan was working ok with pwm on the previous board. And due this the cha_fan2 seem to not be able to control the 4 pin pwm fan, it just runs at full speed no mather what setting I select in BIOS FAN Control, "Silent", "Standard", "Performance". Third the cmos reset switch is a bit badly placed as it is completely covered by the videocard so if your overclock breaks the mobo you have to competelly disassemble it in order to reach to it.

Best regards

Does anyone know how to set LLC and check soc voltage on this motherboard?

Happy to see more AM4 ITX boards coming out! Did you get a chance to OC your CPU yet? If so, how does the board handle OCs, do the VRMs stay cool?

Yep ,easy peasy, set voltage to 1.3250 and freq to 3800 and went straight out of the box. Under load 60 C idle 30 C. Will shoot for 4 GHz shortly.

There is no LLC control on this board. If you control the Vcore manually then SoC is set to 1.1v (1.087v in Windows) and you can make adjustments with SoC offset in 35mV increments. When Vcore is set to auto I'm not sure how much it fluctuates, but mine was reading 0.8xx in Windows at stock.

So far I'm not impressed with the ASRock or the Gigabyte ITX boards. I started out with the Gigabyte which was the only one in stock at the beginning of the month. It has pretty sparse BIOS options, but I could not not control my Vcore and multiplier from BIOS (bug that seems to affect people randomly across all vendors and isn't CPU/motherboard specific) and could overclock with Ryzen Master. So then I got the ASRock X370 and again BIOS are a bit sparse, but I could manually overclock. Between the two they trade blows as to what one has that the other doesn't. The Gigabyte is better at handling higher speed RAM and has LLC controls (even with highest LLC option the voltage regulation is erratic). The ASRock has P State overclocking options, a few slightly more robust BIOS options (if memory serves), and slightly better voltage regulation.

Also apparently there's two different style MOSFET heatsinks on the ASRock. One is a full aluminum heatsink with a normal thermal pad. The other is a cut down heatsink that is on some standoffs with a huge thermal pad. I haven't seen conclusive temperature measurements on the one with the really think pad so I don't know it fares. At first people were upset about the lackluster heatsink on the Gigabyte, but the ASRock might not be much better if you got the one with the huge thermal pad.

Images were pulled from a thread over on the SFF forum:




My X370 has the one with the huge thermal pad. Sounds like it's a mixed bag if ASRock will replace the heatsink for you as well. The early adopter woes...

Edit - I forgot to mention that for anyone that wants to set up a custom PWM fan curve that the system's CPU reading is vastly different than the reading you get with the Tdie value in HWinfo which AMD has said is the most accurate temp reading. Idle reading for the CPU temp from the motherboard's sensor is usually just a degrees higher than my idle Tdie which is fine in my opinion, but under load there is a substantial difference of about 15C. So keep that in mind when setting up your fan curves. A quick test on my system under heavy load shows Tdie at a high of 65C and motherboard CPU temp high reading of 50.5C.

I hope they continue bringing updated BIOS versions even for the boards now.
Who knows whether they will support Zen2 with the 1st gen boards....
If not, then using the same socket doesn't change the fact that you gotta buy a new board.

For sure, AMD wouldnt make a big mistake of having their base go with additional costs of updating their cpus considering Zen2 shouldnt be much different from the original Zen.