ASUS presents a motherboard for AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors, specifically the ASUS RoG X399 Zenith Extreme, a motherboard with two 8-pin connectors to power the disproportionate AMD processors.
After seeing the absurdly large AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor, which is four fingers wide, the first motherboards for these processors begin to arrive. The first one that concerns us is the ASUS RoG X399 Zenith Extreme, a huge motherboard that has allowed us to see some really interesting features, although we have noticed a very important little detail, which we will comment when the time comes. Without a doubt, the best of AMD Ryzen Threadripper will be the motherboards for this, which are sure to give a lot to talk about.
Threadripper processors with X399 chipset will have a maximum of 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes, in addition, these processors support Quad Channel (normal, they are two Ryzen 7 stuck together), thus adding a total of eight DDR4 DIMM sockets and will also support NVMe SSD drives. Each manufacturer will distribute the PCIe lines according to what interests them most, for multiple graphics, M.2 units or other uses, as considered by each of the manufacturers.
ASUS has implemented, as we said, eight DDR4 DIMM sockets that support up to 128GB, it has four shielded PCIe 3.0 x16 slots for graphics cards and is capable of housing up to three M.2 NVMe drives. The interesting thing comes now, with the power supply of the processor and is that this processor requires two 8-pin connectors, which means a consumption of around 300W (150W per connector), an authentic consumption burada and we will see how these processors will support overclocking, although it does not look good.
This motherboard has four PCIe 3.0 x16 lanes and also a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot and a PCIe 3.0 x1. Six SATA 6Gbps ports, a single U.2 port and two USB 3.0 connectors on the front panels have been provided for storage, as well as a SUB 2.0 also for the front panel. This motherboard has what has been called DIMM.2, a slot developed to connect a motherboard that supports up to a maximum of two M.2 drives, something unusual and that we have previously seen on a motherboard also from ASUS for Intel Kaby Lake.
On the I / O Panel, we can see that it has buttons for the BIOS, at least six USB 3.0 ports, accompanied by two USB 2.0, one of them to update the BIOS and a USB 3.1 Type-A and a USB 3.1 Type- C. It has a Gigabyte Ethernet connection, in addition to 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1. We are struck by the sound jack connectors, which have lighting LEDs, something that we had not seen before and that takes the happy lighting LEDs to a really absurd limit and that we could not imagine, really. These LEDs are getting out of hand. The motherboard comes with an external network card that plugs into the PCIe 3.0 x4 port.
Source: Guru3D
They were confused of chipset with intel at the beginning of the news:
Threadripper processors with ((((((X299 chipset))))))) will have a maximum of 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes, in addition, these processors support Quad Channel (normal, there are two Ryzen 7 stuck together), thus adding a total of eight DDR4 socket DIMMs and will also support NVMe SSD drives. Each manufacturer will distribute the PCIe lanes according to their interest, for multiple graphics, M.2 units or other uses, as considered by each of the manufacturers.
Thank you. The problem is that the names are practically the same and the number 2 and 3 are very close together, my finger would slip off when itching.
You're welcome, with the amount of news they have to publish these days it is normal for this to happen.
The 8-pin connectors are wrong since I do not know if you have knowledge of the subject but the pci must supply 75w per connector the connectors are to power those pci ports in addition to a small amount to the cpu bone that your 300w would be in If they use all the pci and what is connected to them consumes all the w that it supplies in motherboards for mining, for example, they require 2 of 8 pins or a Molex per extra pci and it does not mean that the process consumes the extra w I think It is common knowledge why in other news they killed amd why the 480 consumed a few extra w of the pci in any case I think you should correct that part since you could misinform someone who is just as lost in that area generally it is 24 +8 or 24 + 8 + 4 for just 3 pci
The connectors thing is not bad. The EPS connectors are the ones that power the processor and in this case we can see the two 8-pin EPS connectors in the upper right corner. Each of these connectors offers 150W of power, therefore the total supply is 300W. That is what these connectors supply, another thing is what the processor actually consumes at all times. You are confusing the PCIe connectors for graphics cards and the Molex / SATA, for powering devices and storage drives, although sometimes the Molex are used to power motherboards.