Maxsun, purveyor of a few of the extra unique motherboards and graphics cards obtainable available on the market, has launched a darker compatriot to their (fairly cool trying) white and orange socket AM5 MS-eSport B850ITX board.
An odd selection in growth, Maxsun has determined to separate the SOC’s PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes into an open ended x8 slot to your growth card, and a pair of M.2 Gen 5 x4 slots to enrich the one M.2 slot offered for by the SOC. I’d wager it is a determination based mostly on the sheer bandwidth obtainable with even 8 lanes of PCIe 5.0 – your GPU might not be suffocated by the shortage of lanes right here.
UPDATED, because of a dialogue on our Discord by discussion board consumer 46×02 and Discord member Dogzilla!
The BKB moniker within the title refers back to the board’s back-to-back nature, with the primary PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 growth slot on the bottom of the board. The entrance, open-ended PCIe x8 slot on the entrance of the board is PCIe Gen 3 in its’ nature.
Pictures from Baidu:
The standard twin DDR5 DIMM slots are current, in addition to the anticipated ATX 24 pin and EPS 8 pin energy inputs. Rear IO isn’t clear presently, with TechPowerup stating that “The board additionally comes with Wi-Fi 6E, 2.5 GbE wired LAN, HDMI+DP show outputs, and USB connectivity that features 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-C.’
Growth features a single M.2 slot on the rear of the board as nicely one on the highest, a SFF 8564 4i MiniSAS connector, one entrance Sort-C header, one entrance USB 5Gbps header, two USB 2.0 headers, two SATA ports and one 5V addressable RGB header. 3 4-Pin PWM fan headers are additionally included.
On the rear IO, a pair of WiFi connectors, the same old RJ45 for LAN, 3 audio ports, a DisplayPort and HDMI port (from what I can see) in addition to a plethora of USB ports.
No product web page or pricing was obtainable at time of this text being printed.
Supply: Techpowerup, Baidu 1, 2, Bilibili

