Gigabyte joins the presentation of motherboards for AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors, showing its Gigabyte AORUS X399 Gaming 7 board.

The motherboards for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors live up to what will be the company's first professional processors. Gigabyte has also shown its motherboards with TR4 socket and X399 chipset, intended for processors with up to sixteen threads and thirty-two threads of processing from AMD. Gigabyte has presented the Gigabyte AORUS X399 Gaming 7, which, as in the rest of motherboards for these processors, the first thing that stands out is the gigantic socket for the Threadripper.

We can see on this Gigabyte AORUS X399 Gaming 7 motherboard, eight DDR4 DIMM sockets, which offer support for Quad Channel and support a memory frequency of up to 3600MHz with a maximum of 128GB. This motherboard offers five PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slots and as is the case with all Threadripper motherboards, it does not have any PCIe 2.0 x1. This motherboard also has three M.2 SSD slots with their respective heat sinks, to improve the performance of these units and for storage, it also offers eight SATA ports.

Regarding the rest of the features of this AORUS X399 Gaming 7, we must highlight that it has a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A port and a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, eight USB 3.0 Gen1 ports, a PS / 2 port for keyboard or mouse , an Ethernet port, 802.11ac WiFi connectivity with Bluetooth 4.1 and of course it has RGB LEDs and compatibility with RGB Fusion technology and additionally it offers a connector for RGB LED strips, which supports a maximum of two strips.

Both the motherboards for Threadripper and Intel Basins Falls are similar in performance, the design and development change a bit. The truth is that both families have practically the same support for PCIe lines, counting the AMD Threadripper with support for 64 PCIe lines and the Intel Basins Falls with 44 PCIe lines in the high-end ones plus 24 PCIe lines of the X299 chipset, the latter, normally overlooked by everyone, but they are the ones in charge of connectivity.

Source: Gigabyte