ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme review - Product Showcase

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The motherboard follows an E-ATX form factor 12.2 inch x 10.9 inches ( 31 cm x 27.7 cm ). The flagship motherboard is located in the enthusiast range of the Ryzen Threadripper Gen3 desktop processor product stack. This the motherboard includes all of the standardized TRX40 enhancements like the capability of five (!) M2 SSD slots and obviously can support SLI and Crossfire. Your PCIe lane configuration will be high at 88 PCIe Lanes, out of which 72 are usable to the end-user and spread out over the motherboard connectors. 

• 4 x PCIe 4.0 (x16, x16/x16, x16/x8/x16, x16/x8/x16/x8)

The motherboard features four PCIe x16 Gen 4.0 expansion slots. A Realtek ALC1220S audio codec is the source for anything audio. The board gets an Intel 1 Gigbit jack, then an Aquantia AQC-107 10GbE LAN jack (10 Gbit/5 Gbit/2.5 Gbit/1 Gbit/100 Mbit) and then a Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax module supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band as well as Bluetooth 5.0. You will hopefully agree with me that once powered up the aesthetics change quite a bit. The board has eight DIMM slots. Depending on your processor you can opt for dual- and quad-channel memory. This board supports up-to Support for DDR4 4400MHz memory (overclocked), you may install up-to 256 GB of it.