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Birth of my first am4 system
=> https://pg.asrock.com/MB/AMD/B550M%20PG%20Riptide/index.us.asp#CPU
https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/480437/asrock-u2-kit-m2-to-u2/specificaties/
Not sure if that will be usefull. If so, should acquire it while it still exists.
Yikes, it went from 40 to 100euro according to Tweakers.nl
" The U.2 Kit ASRock allows the user to use U.2 drives on motherboards without appropriate interface. However, what is needed is a M.2 port at which the small adapter card is installed. It works as a kind of amplifier to maintain signal strength at the same level. This peculiarity of the adapter reaches 32 Gbit / s is an equal velocity as the Pattern 2 slots. Theoretically, two of these cards can be operated in RAID in combination with a Z170 mainboard, which enables a maximum capacity of 64 Gbit / s could be achieved."
" U.2 compared with M.2
U.2 allows hot-swap,[8] whereas M.2 does not.[9]
U.2 can use 3.3 V or 12 V for power,[8] while M.2 only supports 3.3 V."
"While the U.2 standard does not imply a form factor of the device that uses it, in practice U.2 is used only on 2.5" SSDs. 2.5" drives are typically physically larger than M.2 drives and thus typically have larger capacities."
All I can tell is that u.2 (listed as 2.5inch on tweakers.nl, somewhat confusingly) are more expensive than m.2 drives. Also seems to be 3x as expensive as sata ssd drives (also listed as 2,5inch...).
Also comes with "front panel usb headers" so that silly usb2.0 3.5inch hub can finally go :-)
2xpciE x16, 1x pcie x1 slot. 1 m2 socket for wifi? something extra I need to buy: 2230 wifi/bt pci2 module. It would be cool if the bios and grub could be controlled with a bt keyboard; otherwise this seems rather optional. I guess this will cost me 1 of the 2 m2 slots? I Wonder if I can recuperate this from the dead chromebook... I have a perfectly fine wifi adapter on usb3 though; not sure I'd bother. Maybe an alternative to a wifi6 access point for the Quest2? Hmm, alfa has these things for wifi6:
https://www.alfa.com.tw/collections/wifi-6-6e-module
But, no BT out of the box. Will need to research well.
might work: https://www.alfa.com.tw/products/ax200ngw?variant=39287305535560
I will mount the stock cooler after inserting the cpu, and then add the dimms. I will have to bring over the gpu, and power connections from the clarkdale, if possible without installing the mobo immediately; I should check all ports are working before putting in the work.
I can no longer find the manual for my nzxt vulcan case... I will have to check the headers the cables are connected to now, and put them in their respective places on the new mobo.
9 Front Panel Type C USB 3.2 Gen1 Header (F_USB3_TC_1): connect to usb-c as it says, amazon has a cable for that
10 USB 3.2 Gen1 Header (F_USB3_1_2): 19pin header, for usb3 frontpanel I presume. It looks like that "joystick port" connector.
These could connect with this:
see manual for supported m2.ssd types, biggest is SKC1000/960GB NVME (bios upgrade may add more types)
Vermeer, Matisse) or Gen3x4 (32 Gb/s) mode (with Cezanne, Renoir and Picasso). NVME I guess?? or M.2_SSD (NGFF) Module
the asrock appshot (windows) has a "3tb+ unlocker" so support bigger hdds... weird.
rgb led1/2 & addr_led1/2: likely not usable in my case...
18 USB 2.0 Header (USB_3_4)
19 USB 2.0 Header (USB_5_6)
SPI_TPM_J1
Post Status Checker (PSC) diagnoses the computer when users power on the
machine. It emits a red light to indicate whether the CPU, memory, VGA or storage is dysfunctional. The lights go off if the four mentioned above are functioning
normally.