Computex 2017: ASUS Shows X399 AMD Zenith Extreme Motherboard

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    I like the led lights at the sound ports. they should do that with the other ports too imho.
     
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    Double 8 pins, dear lord.
     
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    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 Now , and for the first time in six years , I feel my 2600K is way outdated !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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    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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    Came here to ask the exact same thing..??
     
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    What's the 9th Dimm Slot???
     
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    But Would look Dam Nice with 4 Vega's....
     
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    Smart naming - X399. X399 will come off sounding higher than X299
     
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    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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    I asked because I thought LGA was an Intel patent.
     
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    it is higher btw,,

    399 64 lanes
    299 44 lanes
     
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    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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    My first thought lmao. God save us
     

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    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.

    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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    Indeed:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array#AMD
     
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    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...
     
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    all server and server derivatives are LGA
     
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    This was already know since the beginning? At least, ever since we knew the socket was named SP3r2...
     
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