It took me a while to realise where the third M.2 slot is because it had a card and a special heat sink preinstalled. Real estate is really precious on these boards with the double amout of dimm slots and the huge CPU socket.

Still hoping these boards will be able to take the 32c EPYC chips too 🙂

Still hoping these boards will be able to take the 32c EPYC chips too 🙂

I am sure they can, the chips are based of the server CPU's/socket - and it's probably the same as with intel (Having an X99 chipset while using a Xeon cpu for example) - usually the those HEDT chipsets (and CPU's) are based of the Server chipsets so I can't imagine EPYC not to work on X399. *Edit* Actually, aren't the Threadrippers just EPYC's with disabled clusters? (altho I havent checked on this - just assuming, so take it with a grain of salt :P)

Getting that giddy feeling all over as these CPU wars heat up..... Love seeing new hardware between companies making things so competitive once again. Now I just need to see AMD smash the doors off of Intels price points so that they may realize their true downfall. Price gouging over the years and that is/needs to stop. If AMD can release their 16 core CPU's at or below a grand with performance on par if not surpassing that of Intels offerings then the proverbial "****e" would truly hit the fan... OH I'M SO DAMN EXCITED.....!!!

Getting that giddy feeling all over as these CPU wars heat up..... Love seeing new hardware between companies making things so competitive once again. Now I just need to see AMD smash the doors off of Intels price points so that they may realize their true downfall. Price gouging over the years and that is/needs to stop. If AMD can release their 16 core CPU's at or below a grand with performance on par if not surpassing that of Intels offerings then the proverbial "****e" would truly hit the fan... OH I'M SO DAMN EXCITED.....!!!

Seeing as how the 1800X is $499 (or a little below) and the Threadripper is pretty much 2x 1800x for ultra premium use, I would think they would like a little more margin than what they get for 1800x. It depends a lot on performance vs. Intel though. If it trades blows with Intels 16 or especially their 18 core nicely, that will be the deciding factor. If I had to guess, right now, realistically I'd say $1200 maybe at the most for 16 core TR, with 14 core at $1000, 12 at $800, 10 at $600 or so. That meets the 1800x at $450/500. All depends on performance vs Intel.

Still hoping these boards will be able to take the 32c EPYC chips too 🙂

I'm pretty sure it was confirmed that this socket will not be compatible with the EPYC chips. Not sure where I read it though. i would expect the pinout to be the same, but for the actual chips to have different "keys" or something to prevent them being inserted.

Getting that giddy feeling all over as these CPU wars heat up..... Love seeing new hardware between companies making things so competitive once again. Now I just need to see AMD smash the doors off of Intels price points so that they may realize their true downfall. Price gouging over the years and that is/needs to stop. If AMD can release their 16 core CPU's at or below a grand with performance on par if not surpassing that of Intels offerings then the proverbial "****e" would truly hit the fan... OH I'M SO DAMN EXCITED.....!!!

Awesome 🙂 , I am right there with you man, what a time to be alive. This board must do RAID M.2, everything else looks perfect(damn that socket is huge!). If the price is right and I am sure it will be(AMD) this could be the next upgrade for me. 32 logical cores here I come. The intel X299 boards also are very sexy as well, but I am sure the price will be much more overall for them. If I had the money I get the mega 36 logical core CPU from intel and call it a day. We are just going to have to wait and see what happens. Either way its crazy and awesome. Not too long ago it was completely un heard of having such mega CPU power at home. The fact that it will be obtainable by a regular power PC consumer is really amazing. Part of me still can't believe a desktop comp(none server) will soon be able to have 32 - 36 logical core CPUs! The day I upgrade and press build on my game engine/game in Visual Studio and watch all those cores crank it out in less than a minute is going to be amazing. My body is ready.

Still hoping these boards will be able to take the 32c EPYC chips too 🙂

confirmed by amd that that will not be the case

Shame about the lack of EPYC support, will have to see what the supporting boards for it will be like. BTW check carefully how good the VRM cooling is (and motherboard power supply is), as a lot of the X299 Intel boards have some fairly serious issues there - something that could bleed over to the design & build of the X399 boards by the same manufacturers...

Awesome 🙂 , I am right there with you man, what a time to be alive. This board must do RAID M.2, everything else looks perfect(damn that socket is huge!). If the price is right and I am sure it will be(AMD) this could be the next upgrade for me. 32 logical cores here I come. The intel X299 boards also are very sexy as well, but I am sure the price will be much more overall for them. If I had the money I get the mega 36 logical core CPU from intel and call it a day. We are just going to have to wait and see what happens. Either way its crazy and awesome. Not too long ago it was completely un heard of having such mega CPU power at home. The fact that it will be obtainable by a regular power PC consumer is really amazing. Part of me still can't believe a desktop comp(none server) will soon be able to have 32 - 36 logical core CPUs! The day I upgrade and press build on my game engine/game in Visual Studio and watch all those cores crank it out in less than a minute is going to be amazing. My body is ready.

"Damn Right!!" Man I just hope that these boards/CPU's allow for decent overclocking. That is to say I'd like a "little" headroom when it comes to their potential as the Ryzen 7 series does not bode well in this regard. I do not see any extra power connectors on this board for the additional help when one does x4 multi-gpu setups. Not to mention anything extra for the ram/anything else on the board. Is there any word as to how many PCI-e lanes the Intel "HEDT" will have when it full comes to the masses...??