A closer look at Zenith (X399)
So AMD is sending the press and media kit with the Zenith motherboard from ASUS. She is gorgeous and offers a proper feature-set incl a 10 Gbit/s Ethernet card. All the details, features and performance we cannot discuss just yet, but we'll have a review on this as well of course. The processor alone offer 64 lanes of PCIe Express Gen 3.0, there are simply no limits with this platform.
Included with the AMD kit (and retail kits) is a torx tool / wrench. It is very easy to use and prevents you from over applying force while securing the Threadripper processor.
I have posted a quicky installation video on how you can safely install a Threadripper processor. See above.
Once seated you obviously want to apply some cooling. You can grab an included mounting bracket for Asetek based liquid cooling kits as explained on page one. This is included in the CPU kit at default
The installation is very simple actually. Just rotate the mounting bracket 20 degrees C, take it off, insert the new one (as shown above).
You can now safely mount the cooler on that big socket. Above we use the NZXT Kraken X series. Secure four screws and you are done (do not forget thermal paste btw).
