Friday, July 21st 2017
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Motherboards to be Showcased on July 25th
AMD is organizing the "Meet the Experts" webinar, which will focus on AMD's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper motherboard designs and offerings from AMD partners. As we inch closer to AMD's HEDT X399 platform launch, we've gotten confirmation from AMD on Threadripper's specs and pricing. However, the actual motherboards where you're expected to sit your awe-inducing 12 and 16-core processors have largely been absent from the show.
And since AMD knows that processors without a motherboard don't really equate to anything much, the company has invited ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock to detail at least some of their X399 motherboards. So far, the motherboards we have some info are the GIGABYTE X399 AORUS Gaming 7 (which has 5x PCIe x16 slots, no PCIe x1 slots, and 3x M.2 slots in an ATX form-factor); the ASUS X399 ROG ZENITH EXTREME (EATX, 4x PCIe x16 slots, 1x PCIe x1 slots, and 2x M.2 slots); the ASROCK X399 Professional Gaming (ATX, 4x PCIe x16 slots, 1x PCIe x1 slots, and 3x M.2 slots); and finally, the ASROCK X399 TAICHI, which counts with the usual ATX form-factor, and offers 4x PCIe x16 slots, 1x PCIe x1 slots, and 3x M.2 slots. All of these seem to be marketed toward gamer enthusiasts, though we'll see some increasingly workstation-geared motherboards closer to or after the launch.
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And since AMD knows that processors without a motherboard don't really equate to anything much, the company has invited ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock to detail at least some of their X399 motherboards. So far, the motherboards we have some info are the GIGABYTE X399 AORUS Gaming 7 (which has 5x PCIe x16 slots, no PCIe x1 slots, and 3x M.2 slots in an ATX form-factor); the ASUS X399 ROG ZENITH EXTREME (EATX, 4x PCIe x16 slots, 1x PCIe x1 slots, and 2x M.2 slots); the ASROCK X399 Professional Gaming (ATX, 4x PCIe x16 slots, 1x PCIe x1 slots, and 3x M.2 slots); and finally, the ASROCK X399 TAICHI, which counts with the usual ATX form-factor, and offers 4x PCIe x16 slots, 1x PCIe x1 slots, and 3x M.2 slots. All of these seem to be marketed toward gamer enthusiasts, though we'll see some increasingly workstation-geared motherboards closer to or after the launch.
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More details on the Asus board here rog.asus.com/articles/maximus-motherboards/rogs-zenith-extreme-motherboard-is-coming-for-amds-monster-ryzen-threadripper-cpu/
You could buy Epyc, if you really need the power.
:ohwell: not even Intel give that to consumer, X99/X299 based i7 are 1P also (nope 2p and more Xeon based system does not count, they wouldn't be on non server chipset anyway )
tho it would be nice for cruncher ...
Gigabyte customer: And what if I want to hook up a desktop NVMe drive? Where's the U.2 port(s)? I can't just fill the PCI-E slots with SSDs because I want to put my GPUs there.
Gigabyte designer: ... lots of RGB lights!
AMD has spent lots of R&D budget on it, they already had a 2P demo during Naples showcase earlier this year. Plus, quite recently AMD most likely forced it's partners under death threats and airsoft guns to do confessional testimonials like this one:
And there are already tons of preview benchmarks on the net to assume that dual-socket boards are already in production, and are very-very close to general public release. Though, I'm not sure if it will be available in conventional form-factors like e-ATX and XL-ATX.
I'm expecting these boards to start at about ~$280.