Computex 2017: ASUS Shows X399 AMD Zenith Extreme Motherboard

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/30/2017 03:10 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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WhiteLightning
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#5437376 Posted on: 05/30/2017 12:15 PM

I like the led lights at the sound ports. they should do that with the other ports too imho.

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#5437384 Posted on: 05/30/2017 12:23 PM

Double 8 pins, dear lord.

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#5437388 Posted on: 05/30/2017 12:32 PM

Looks Sexy !! Now , and for the first time in six years , I feel my 2600K is way outdated ! so I9 or this AMD beast ! escaping I7 naming lol

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#5437395 Posted on: 05/30/2017 12:44 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.

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#5437403 Posted on: 05/30/2017 12:57 PM

Wait Threadripper is LGA not PGA?

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

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#5437407 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:11 PM

What's the 9th Dimm Slot???

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#5437412 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:13 PM

But Would look Dam Nice with 4 Vega's....

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#5437420 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:18 PM

Smart naming - X399. X399 will come off sounding higher than X299

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#5437421 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:20 PM

What's the 9th Dimm Slot???

DIMM slot for storage, apparently, something M.2 based...?

Like this:

https://www.techpowerup.com/229448/asus-dimm-2-is-an-m-2-riser-card

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#5437423 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:32 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.

Can you imagine 4k+ pins on PGA ? I can't, even with LGA this is a huge socket.
I hope someone on Computex makes picture of AM4 CPU vs this monster.

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#5437427 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:38 PM

Can you imagine 4k+ pins on PGA ? I can't, even with LGA this is a huge socket.
I hope someone on Computex makes picture of AM4 CPU vs this monster.

I asked because I thought LGA was an Intel patent.

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#5437433 Posted on: 05/30/2017 01:50 PM

Smart naming - X399. X399 will come off sounding higher than X299

it is higher btw,,

399 64 lanes
299 44 lanes

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#5437438 Posted on: 05/30/2017 02:01 PM

They sure didn't leave much room for anything. Considering the geometry, this is going to need some very specialized heatsinks, and I don't think it'll be possible to have a single motherboard CPU thermometer - the die is just too big and the reading would be very inaccurate.

As for the 2nd 8-pin connector, I'm sure that's only there for overclockers, or, high-clocked CPUs with more than 16 cores. Remember, the current 8-pin connector safely supports up to 288W. A Ryzen 1800X consumes roughly 16W-18W per core (hard to know exactly when you account the the wattage of the rest of the system, but it's definitely less than 19W). That being said, in a worst case scenario, the 16-core models will use 256-288W. I'm sure AMD won't push the envelope that hard, and it wouldn't surprise me if they refine the architecture enough to be slightly more efficient at higher speeds.

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#5437442 Posted on: 05/30/2017 02:05 PM

Double 8 pins, dear lord.

My first thought lmao. God save us

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#5437448 Posted on: 05/30/2017 02:16 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.

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.

Double 8 pins, dear lord.

No offense but what are you expecting? It's a huge core count, needs power! Most people that would buy this setup probably aren't too worried about power draw.

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