It's not only a Potatoe, it's a Potatoe Salad of PCIe ports. Of course, because nobody who knows what they're talking about watches this channel? idk - dudes loosing it.
Rather silly statement, to begin with anything below 4090 performance level current is largely fine in a X8 4.0 slot. Once GPUs get 5.0 support, that means you can even go past 4090 performance without meaningful impact in a 8x slot. Secondly, it's not so much about "wanting a 5.0 m.2 slot", it's about wanting more m.2 slots on dedicated lanes. But if you want to bifurcate the 16x slot without dropping down to 4.0 for the GPU. Then the m.2 slot has support 5.0 as well unless I've missed some recent changes. Because the link speed is set as an aggregate from my experience, rather than individual links when you bifurcate, and will settle on the lowest supported device speed. If you stick a 3.0 speed device into your 2nd slot on a Intel board that can do 2x8 4.0 bifurcated, then the device in the first slot will be 3.0 as well afaik. So if you want 5.0 X8 on the GPU slot while bifurcating at a future point. Then you have to stick a 5.0 m.2 device in the slot coming off those lanes as well. That means the slot has to have 5.0 support to begin with.
Used to buy Colorful products all the time. Took a hiatus from building PCs in the late 2000s and when I came back to the hobby in the 2010s a lot of my favourite brands were either defunct, or had exited the US market. Good to see Colorful is still building a decent board.
Looks like a pretty well put together bit of kit. It's always nice to see a POST code on a mid range board given the big manufacturers try to limit them to only their high-end offerings. Any chance you could look at one of their AMD boards as well?
I bought a b650 colorful board on Ali and it works excellently for me, was surprised how easy the bios was to understand and it has a 5x16 slot and two gen 5 m.2 slots which for the price was head and shoulders above any of the mainstream brands (especially for mATX, the only other mATX board with a 5x16 is the crosshair gene which has a completely troll price)
Colorful also do AM5 boards, the CVN frost something v14 atx board (there is an matx too at 150 usd) can support 2 pcie 5.0 m.2 drives, yes 2 full speed 5.0 drives, and nobody have tested it properly i would say The matx is interesting too
@9:18 I'm certain that Roman knows, but I've had a number of boards with integrated I/O shields that adjust slightly to accommodate imperfections in the fitment of the case. The shield moves slightly and can often look like it is misaligned after installation. This is by design. Perhaps this one was just a little 'sticky' and wasn't moving freely at first? Just an idea.
We need more white pcbs. They are so aesthetic and beautiful. I’ve been really wanting a white z790 ….. I might have to snag one if this ever hits the us sellers but I’d def have to 3d print covers for the cringe gamer slogans or cover with white vinyl lol. It’s nice they give you white cables and a tool kit too
20:56 all manufacturers started like that. Made their software as much smaller and functional to attract costumers. When they got bigger they simply integrated all the tracking bs that's available and made more profit than their own products do.
Hey now, Asrock hasn't made coherent software or added a bunch of telemetry nonsense. Boards are solid but I swear they must have hired one dude 10 years ago to program a tool that someone has tacked spaghetti code to every generation.
Colorful is no spring chicken, they just don't really care to compete with ASUS ROG and MSI on the worldwide market for some odd reason. It isn't their products, or them being too small or something. I'm not really in the market segment they target, but if I were, I'd be making my choice between iGame and ROG probably. So Colorful and ASUS. Off the top of my head Colorful has been around 10+ years at least, top end enthusiast market in Asia, so China, Japan etc.
My niece is about the age to have her own gaming pc and has already worn out her Switch playing Minecraft with her friends. I've been eyeing those cute cat components for her and it would be nice if I could buy them straight from EU.
Looking like this board can do 7600 stable easily with VDD2/VDDQ massage 14:01 all voltages for memory tunning in one place except VSA, quite handy Use y-cruncher VT3 for IMC stability check, memtestpro is unreliable for DDR5
On my recent Intel build in US, Colorful was on my radar, but couldn't find a white GPU in my price range from them, so went with a Zotac 4070 RTX OC. Hopefully they will branch out more and drive competition.
Thanks for the review and I wish they did have better availability as their stuff is quite interesting. Also anyone complaining about the lack of PCIe 5.0 M.2 on Intel is a fool as it causes primary lane to run x8.
Gigabyte does have some motherboards with white PCB like the Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Ice and the Gigabyte B760M Aorus Elite X AX for example. I have the mATX board in an all white build and it looks so nice. 🙂 Those 2 boards are pretty expensive though. Asrock has a cheap white board the ASRock B760M-HDV/M.2. But yeah white motherboards are pretty rare.
this is why i like this channel. he explains everything except just drooling over everything that was sent to them with no real information other than some benching.
The one thing I don't like about asus motherboards is how confusing the bios can get. This looks very very nice and i kinda want to get one of these boards now.
A Chinese ad slogan says, "I can tell if it's Made in China; it's swell!" An American ad slogan says, "You can tell it's Mattel; it's swell!" Does this mean our PCs are toys? My wife thinks so.
That's a very cool board. Very well done Colorful. It's clear the bios in particular was designed by people who actually use a board and have spent FIVE minutes or more searching for a feature in bios which is nonsense. All current boards have a bios which are akin to a full on OS and it's really annoying. I wonder if there's an AM4/5 equivalent from Colorful? Regardless, Colorful NEED to get this level of engineering, quality and price point on Intel and AMD into Europe and other markets ASAP. Excellent engineering such as this should not be a secret. Also, I think Colorful are missing a trick here by not leaning in on their own branding and producing a red or blue, mate black and possibly other colours. I know it would be expensive but, if a buyer wanted a blue, white or red board who would they buy it from? Colorful. The clue is in the name.
i do wish that Colorful had more availability in the West, as their 'CVN' Motherboard line looks so, so, so cool to me. also their CLC/AIO GPU's this gen were like, the best on the market, period. i'd be happy with using such Motherboards provided that they're competitive with BIOS layout and Memory Training and PCB design for Memory Overclocking and sensible LLC curve settings, Et Cetera - on top of having good choices for I/O Ports, a VRM that's reasonably good, PCI-E Slot locations that are useful, you know, all the usual stuff. my main worry really just is the Memory Overclocking. not sure if i should or should not expect that they'd have BIOS updates out in reasonable timeframes to the other Vendors, and if it would be a similar experience to the other Vendors in use. anyways, those Charts Silkscreened onto the Board are indeed nice. always want to see more useful features like that. the CPU M.2 Socket being 4.0 is BETTER, frankly. we still don't have any real/native 5.0 class Drives yet AFAIK, all still using Overclocked Controllers and so they run like garbage. and outside of pro level Video Editing, there's literally no benefit anyways, nor will there be for probably another entire Decade.
Colorful's been around for ages so there's nothing surprising about them having some good stuff. They wouldn't have lasted as long as they have if they didn't.
first of all this is fantastic company that no one knows about it my next build gonna be colorful i hope they have amd lineup 🤲🏼 the amount of polished bios and clean UI is ! OMG it has QR Code LED !! I hated that other motherboard manufacurer removed QR LED with sub 150 and up motherboard why they di that WHY !! instead of makeing the diagnose of a motherboard easy they make it diffcult for the consumer its very important feature ! about the OC setting I don't mind you showing us what setting you adjusted for CPU, make a segment at the end after the conclusion for us nerdy people to see what did you do 💖💖
My guess is that colorful would love to sell in EU and North America, but since they are Chinese they are sanctioned, or they fear that after they spend millions on advertising and stocking shelves they get sanctioned the next day. Probably not worth the financial risk, obviously it looks like if you really want their products you can get your hands on them.
midrange in price, after an z790 is expensive af, i remember some 700 dollars motherboard being offered not long ago, same for amd am5 years ago, no idea who buys this things i won't buy anything over a 150 dollars motherboard and that is too expensive tbh
Just slip heat pipes into those big fat VRM heat sink fins and stick an ROG label on it for additional bandwidth. And with all four memory dimms installed switching on the power supply opens portals.
Technically it's that some of the PCIE lanes go directly to the CPU while others go to the chipset (which has its own connection to the CPU). This can apply to any PCIE device, not just M.2.
I love that I am still able to get 128GB ram to run 3600 on am4. I love the idea of updating my systems but I feel like the am5 components aren't that much faster.
It's pretty cool they offer 4x M.2 on a mainstream board, but the 3 x4 of them are on PCH, so they get bottlenecked by the 8x DMI. Kind of unfortunate where it would otherwise be interesting for RAID5/zfs/storage-spaces/etc. And yeah, we need a node process iteration on Gen5 M.2 controllers to bring the temps down.
When they slap something on there it means they are new to the whole game how do you think we NITR0 division or hard core in component design and layout and materials and testing so each user is so happy with there product they keep it repair it and continue to support
@@ashenwattegedera until you touch it and yurn it on and ends all full of fingesprints and the lights make it look less clean the cases in white do not cost more all the time, the problem is motherboard and gpu, ram is easy to find in white these days for some reason, psu, no longer a problem in most cases, you dont see it, so the heatsink, i paint the top layer and i buy gray or black fans and looks clean with white, same for the gpu
I 100% agree with the reviews stating the top slot should be 5.0. I also 100% agree with you probably shouldn't buy a 5.0 drive today. The thing is, those drives will get cheaper eventually and so having the top slot supporting the same thing the CPU supports on the top of the line chipset is in my opinion baseline and should be mandated by Intel.
6:37 Mayby its made of plastic because, by design, to holds in place, it go to pci slots? You really imagine using single piece of metal, that conduct electricity, and later stick them to pci slots??? To use something else beside plastic, they would need to redesigne whole that dust cover to add some type of clips or something like that.
Colorful makes some really cool looking GPUs as well if I remember correctly. I can't speak about how good they are or anything (because y'know, China brand). Their Kudan series of cards has always looked really cool, and they have a clockwork aesthetic.
Nice video Roman. i'm not digging the design of the board, too much branding and the design style isnt consistant for me but since Colorful is making motherboards is there any chance you think Red Devil will make their own motherboards? Also still waiting for you to review the Asrock Livemixer Z790.
Hi Roman, did you see the black and white build from EKWB? A black rad on top and a white on the bottom? It gave some depth on the build, quite special. I think to build a new system with that terminology. You can find it on their channel. But they used a black mobo, with this one, it would even give more depth to the eye. Great motherboard (looks).
I don't get being upset over not having a gen 5 m.2 slot. My gen 4 drive pushes 7,450/6,900 MB/s read/write. Loading screens in games are just a couple seconds long. That's plenty for a mid-range board. If you want the best of the best you're not looking at a mid-range board anyhow.
Got B650 Gaming Frozen V14 for my GF build its quite solid actually, the functions are even better than many B650E boards, idk why did they call it B650..
Guess what kind of PC my nephew wants to build? If you guessed all white with lots of RGB you are correct. By the time he gets enough money maybe this motherboard will also be an option for him.
I purchased their Neptune series GPU ... Gotta say really please with the product and build quality (software - app can be a lot better but not a deal breaker as MSI AB is there)
MAXUN white motherboards also look awesome but hard to find. GUNNIR and YESTON are difficult to find as well. GUNNIR are a bit overpriced like asus high end gpus but they are pretty great. Likewise YESTON has good cooling and looks cool as well and both are difficult to get in europe.
Pcie 5 drives btw are over rated and wayyyy too hard to cool at max transfer speeds. Pcie 4 drives are the way. Also, I’m pretty sure the reason it powers on when not everything is hooked up or installed is for easier diagnostic purposes to tell if the board is bad or not.
when doing your memory stability test, do you just change the ram frequency ? or do you adjust other parameters ? I'm curious because I would like to buy some high speed ddr5 for my next pc, but I don't have the skills needed to tweak every timing by hand
Nice to hear as from my experience from 10 years ago colorful was a pretty subpar brand in everything they did. They were slightly worse than zotac and palit
