Turn a B650 into an X670 with this ONE weird trick!

This PCIe add-on card came from the special edition of ASRock's Livemixer B650 Motherboard made special for Wendell! We're hoping this becomes way more mainstream though!! Its so cool!!

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Intro and Outro Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk
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Edited by Autumn

[eirikdalhus]

They need to do this for all boards... i love the idea to buy a budget board and then down the line when you need to have more IO or more storage you can just buy a chipset upgrade card for your motherboard.. and not have to buy a brand new motherboard..! I would love something like this!

[bryanv.]

If AMD could write CPU agnostic drivers for either general CXL or PCIe connectivity for their chipsets to be used in this way, that would open up a whole new market, especially on the AsRock Rack side! You gotta nudge AMD and AsRock to keep up the experiments till they get enough Product-Market fit to make it economical, because they're definitely on to something.

[seanunderscorepry]

Motherboard seems like an all around great product but the chipset expansion card is just brilliant! Would love to see more useful expansion cards like this one. Very cool, thanks for sharing!

shout out to the editor who is doing great work.

[andibiront]

I actually like this!! In the old days ASRock did some weird stuff like this. Boards with Intel and AMD CPU support. Boards with AGP and PCIe. Boards with DDR2 and DDR3! (or was it DDR and DDR2?). This is great.

[meddlin]

Wow! that motherboard has a cool paint scheme! Normally I go for the more subdued colors, but this is just done right 👍
And then the PCI-e peripheral?! heck yeah, I want this thing. I'm even happy to pay a premium for it.

[eppicshotgun]

That Epyc workstation idea is actually ridiculous and I love it and I wish there was a way i could stick one of these in my x670e motherboard just to say that i have 3 chipsets.

[ianbruene]

I would love for motherboards and CPUs to be built around this idea in general.

Put more PCIe lanes to generic use, and then the whole system becomes more modular. And with fewer SKUs for the motherboard manufacturers to keep track of while trying to cater to every possible niche of the market.

[ThisIsReMarkable]

That is really awesome. It's one of those things that seems like it's such a good idea that you wonder why no one's thought of it before.

As an aside, on top the awesome functionality, that motherboard looks amazing too.

[Mio]

I feel like AIBs would really like this if they were allowed go wild with the chipset features, but also it allowed motherboard manufacturers to cut back on motherboard costs.

Mind you this kind of unbundling might lead to the cost of motherboard features being higher in the long run then they would be if they needed to be bundled together in one package, but it would allow for a lot more options to get the exact feature set you want without features you don't necessarily want.

[Quakespeare]

I cannot overstate how fantastic this would be, it's the function of multiple PCIe cards in one! In an age of very few PCIe slots -and- lanes on consumer motherboards, the expansion offered by this is unparalleled! I would buy this in a heartbeat.

[benjaminfrohns]

That thumbnail is gold, perfect fit for the giggly excitement. Thank you for reviewing, would be nice if it were a more universal option.

[PhoeniXfromNL]

I really like that approach, that sure seems like proper use of PCI lanes for some reason

[blehbleh]

This would be wonderful for budget build upgrades over time. Would love to see this everywhere

[lemonbrothers]

"they didn't stop to think if they should" is most often used to describe something terrible, but sometimes by a turn of chance something completely amazing turns out.

I absolutely love this! It's a pity the livemixer is not a particularly great motherboard (realtek lan, older codec, no x16 slot bifurcation - though we at least get a x4 slot direct from the cpu besides the one from the chipset), but the solution deserves a lot of praise.

[relucentsandman]

I would totally get a chipset pcie card. I've been racking my brain over getting b650 or an x670 because I want to do a drop in upgrade eventually, and knowing that I could change my mind at a later date, even if that route would be more expensive than just getting the x670 in the first place. The flexibility would be very nice

[vollhorst]

This is really nice. I am amazed. Well done Asrock.

[MosquitoMade]

This is awesome. I'd love something like that. Or like you touched on in the motherboard overview, offing more older generation PCIe lanes available instead of all PCIe 5.0 or 4.0

[billyhart]

Good lord man, this is *so close* to exactly what I wanted. I want to run a NAS out of this expansion kit and do virtualization on it, so I can have network storage speeds at PCI-E to my main computer and make it easy to maintain this device as a network device.

[mrKozmoz]

The idea is very cool, being able to expand a board for content creators and creatives in terms of storage, it's a great thing

[michaelthompson]

I was googling for this add-in card … then you said it’s a special edition for just you Wendell ….. my heart sank 💔💗😔! I’d buy this in a heartbeat 💓 🥰😱😳if it was on the market to buy!!!