thank you to Razer for sending us to Pax West 2016 this year check out their new
blade stealth in the video description down below so we're here after the show
after everyone has left to check out the AMD 7th generation Apu processors and
am4 motherboards super interesting super
cool but we don't have them here and we have no videos of them either so we'll
be putting up what slides we can and other than that it's just going to be random footage of us at packs now the
new am4 platform supports 7th generation AMD a series OEM desktops that's mainly
what we're going to be talking about today although they didn't have information on what oems or where you'd
be able to buy them all I was able to figure out was that at the very least HP
is going to support this at Costco as of
right now they will support Seventh Generation processors with a 35 watt and
65 watt TDP with the 65 watt TDP
matching up to the performance of previous generation 95 watt TDP
processors they will also support new ddr4 memory with up to 20 400 MHz of
speed this 35 wat and 65 wat TDP split
enables you to go for a performance angle or a cool and quiet angle on the
platform now this is currently OEM only
support and theoretically you would be able to install a Zen processor into
this am4 motherboard I was confirmed with that from AMD the problem here is
that it might not happen because BIOS support would have to be given to you by
the oems so it's actually rather unlikely now am4 motherboards will come
with a stack of different chipsets for small forf factor you'll have AMD XB or
a300 chipsets for the essential like workstation PCS you'll have AMD A320
chipsets and then once you start getting into mainstream a little bit higher
performance stuff you'll have AMD B 350s
now for enthusiast chipsets we don't actually have the name of the chipset
yet but we'll have to wait till probably the Zen launch to get that other
features that they're currently calling out are PCIe gen 3 USB 3.1 Gen 2 NVMe
support and SATA Express there's also a
huge list of processors that support am4 motherboards and they range from about
two cores to four cores boost clocks of 3.4 GHz to 4.2 GHz on the graphic side
of things you got Radeon R5 up to Radeon R7 with GPU cus from 6 all the way up to
8 and clock speeds of about 847 up to
118 now for those of you that have been excited for Zen this is very interesting
this is the groundwork that is being laid out for the Zen architecture we
need that am4 platform support and what's cool is that these oems are going
to be rolling this out and sort of beta testing it for us any problems that come
up with the am4 platform will be found before Zen launches and that's really
cool if you thought this was interesting and have anything to comment about it
let me know in the comments down below or on Twitter at Linus Tech also thanks
to Razer for sending us to Pax West 2016 this year we're doing a huge giveaway
with this because we just passed 3 million freaking subscribers we're
giving a new razor blade and a new razor blade stealth two awesome super high
performance Ultrabooks so click that video description link down below edel
Yago made custom art to be etched into the laptops looks amazing check it out
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