Wraith Ripper for AMD Ryzen Threadripper clogs two DIMM sockets and one PCIe 3.0 x16 port

The Wraith Ripper heatsink for 3.0nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper locks two DIMM sockets and one PCIe 399 port on the ASUS XXNUMX Zenith Xtreme motherboard.

Habemus mess and serious. The new 12nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper has just been announced, which is based on the Zen + architecture and 280nm lithography. Up to this point there have been no relevant news regarding these processors, but they come with an important problem and it is the new heatsink developed by AMD and Cooler Master, called AMD Ryzen Wraith Ripper. A mole to dissipate all the heat that these processors can generate, whose TDP is up to 2990W (Threadripper 2970WX / XNUMXWX).

The Wraith Ripper heatsink for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2 is a problem.

The guys at Hardware Battle have had this processor and have been able to mount it on an ASUS X399 Zenith Extreme motherboard. When they assembled it, they detected several serious problems, the first being that of the RAM memory. Because the heatsink is not high enough, it prevents installing the RAM in the first DIMM socket, so it is reduced to four usable DIMM modules, which is a very serious problem.

This is the first problem and it's not a joke at all, but the second problem is that it hampers the first PCIe 3.0 x16 socket, preventing you from installing a graphics card. The seriousness of this point is that this port is completely disabled due to the aberrational dimensions of the heatsink.

We do not know whose design error was, but if it is confirmed that this happens on other motherboards on the market, AMD would run into an unprecedented incident that assumes that it has developed a completely useless and poor quality heatsink, which blocks the least two DIMM sockets and one PCIe 3.0 port for graphics cards.

We will see if AMD or ASUS give information about it and it is known if this is a problem in the design of the motherboard or on the contrary it is AMD's fault, who would have created a larger heat dissipation system than it should and that it will force users to buy alternative solutions that do not take up as much space.