Computex 2017: ASUS Shows X399 AMD Zenith Extreme Motherboard

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/30/2017 04:10 PM | source: | 26 comment(s)

ASUS has a bit of an exclusive on their hands, they have been showing the X399 based AMD ROG Zenith Extreme motherboard. X399 platforms for AMDs High-end desktop platform, let's call them enthusiast class processors. These would be intended for the CPUs like we mentioned earlier today, the 16-core / 32-threaded parts.

Little is known about the features other than specs from earlier leaks on the web and the scarce information we have received on this event. Previously two diagrams have been showing a X390 and X399 chipset. Details are still a little limited but we still think X390 corresponds to earlier rumors about Ryzen HEDT, which is meant for 16-core 32-thread Ryzen processors. The beastly processing power is balanced by more memory bandwidth via quad DDR4 channels, and it’s backed by up to a whopping 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes for multiple graphics cards and ultra-fast NVMe SSDs.

This Threadripper ready mobo holds 8x DDR4 DIMM modules that can hold 128 GB of DDR4 memory and 4x PCIe x16 slots and support up to three NVMe M.2 drives. As you can spot on the photos, power delivery is supplied with a dual 8 pin connector configuration along with a 24 Pin ATX connector. There are four PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots, a single PCI-e 3.0 x4 and then a single PCI-e 3.0 x1 slot. Storage wise this mobo has 6 SATA III ports, a single U.2 port, two USB 3.0 front panel headers and an internal USB 2.0 port. You'll notice one more (extra) DIMM slot, this is called Dimm.2 and you can pop in an addon card that can house two M2 SSDs. A rather unusual yet intersting way of implementing that alright.

The motherboard will get a 10 Gbit ethernet (Aquantia AQtion AQC107 10Gb ethernet controller), by means of a PCI-Express add-in card, but also will get dual-band Wi-Fi solution that supports the new 802.11ad protocol and is capable of theoretical tranfer rates up to 4.6Gbps.

The Zenith Extreme obviously is going to support ASUS AURA Sync RGB lighting and will support SupremeFX audio. More news and info on this product will follow, below have a browse at some of the photos as a bit of an exclusive sneak peak. Dang, that SP3 4094 pins socket!

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schmidtbag
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#5437451 Posted on: 05/30/2017 03:21 PM

They've had a couple LGA sockets in the past I know of, more for multiple core segment though. They're just crazy huge! C32 is one I can think of off the top of my head.

Indeed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grid-array#AMD

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#5437459 Posted on: 05/30/2017 03:30 PM

My way of thinking is with that big of a pinout, it might not be a good idea to have that many pins on the cpu...

zer0_c0ol
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#5437476 Posted on: 05/30/2017 03:58 PM

Wait Threadripper is LGA not PGA?

Also looks like I would have to buy a new CPU block for this. That's and added expense I was not expecting.

all server and server derivatives are LGA

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#5437511 Posted on: 05/30/2017 05:12 PM

Wait Threadripper is LGA not PGA?

Also looks like I would have to buy a new CPU block for this. That's and added expense I was not expecting.

Came here to ask the exact same thing..??

This was already know since the beginning? At least, ever since we knew the socket was named SP3r2...

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#5437516 Posted on: 05/30/2017 05:22 PM

Double 8 pins, dear lord.

it's pretty common on entusiast mother board.

on an old X79 from MSI it was even 2X8pin + 2xPCIe power pin

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