ASRock introduces X570S PG Riptide motherboard with passive chipset cooling
ASRock introduces its X570S PG Riptide motherboard with socket AM4. This motherboard has a new X570S chipset, which is passively cooled. The company is also introducing a B550 variant in the PG Riptide series.
ASRock reports in a press release that the X570S PG Riptide has passive chipset cooling thanks to “an updated microcode update from AMD and bios tweaks from ASRock.” Both the X570S variant and the B550 model have a 10-stage vrm design. ASRock uses ICs from Dr. MOS for this.
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Both motherboards come with three PCIe x16 slots. On the X570S variant, all of these slots use PCIe 4.0, but on the B550 model, only the top slot supports PCIe 4.0. Both motherboards will also receive two M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs, one of which has a passive cooling block. The two models will also receive an additional M.2 Key-E slot for WiFi modules. In addition, ASRock supplies both motherboards with a GPU holder, which must ensure that heavy video cards do not sag too far.
The X570S variant also gets four USB 3.2 Gen 1 connections of type A at the rear, with maximum throughput speeds of up to 5Gbit / s. In addition, the motherboard also gets two USB 2.0 connectors, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 connector of type A, and a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port of type C. The B550 variant gets two additional USB 3.2 Gen 1 on top of this. connections, although a bios reset button is missing. The manufacturer also equips both motherboards with a Realtek ALC897 audio chip and an E3100 network card from Killer, which supports 2.5Gbit / s Ethernet.
Rumors have been circulating about the introduction of an X570S chipset for some time, although companies have not previously shared official information about such chipsets. This makes ASRock the first company to show an X570S motherboard. ASUS announced earlier this year that it would come with X570 motherboards with passive chipset cooling in the third quarter of 2021.
Update, 18:59: Initially, the article stated that the motherboards have USB 3.2 Gen 1 connections with throughput speeds of up to 10Gbit / s. This should be 5Gbit / s. The article has been adapted accordingly.
The ASRock X570S PG Riptide (left) and B550 PG Riptide. Images via ASRock