It's no great secret why AMD brought us down to their suite at CES 2017. They
want to show off their Vega GPU, their Ryzen CPU. Those are like the sexy
things that everybody wants to talk about. But of course, a CPU is nothing
without the underlying platform. And
that's what this video is about. The top five things about AMD's AM4 socket and
the surrounding ecosystem. So, number one is full support for enthusiast
technologies. So, I'm talking about overclocking, Crossfire, and
SLI. Yes, my friends, AMD got SLI
certified on their X370 chipset. Number
two is variety choice. So, for the first
time in a while, AMD is launching a new chip, a new socket with support from the
motherboard manufacturers with an entire range of products all the way from basic
all the way up to premium products with reinforced memory slots, PCI Express
slots, M.2 connectors, uh, great IO on
the back, all of that good stuff. Number
three is overclocking. All Ryzen CPUs
are going to support overclocking and it's going to come down to the
motherboard chipset. So the X370 and the
next one down as to whether or not you are able to tune the frequency of your
chip. Number four, native NVMe. So the
chip gets 24 PCI Express lanes, 16
dedicated to graphics, another four for NVMe or SATA, and another four to
communicate with the chipset. So, that's a nice low latency connection to PCI
Express drives. Number five, USB 3
support is here in spades. You get up to 10 USB 3.1 Gen 1, which is formerly
known as 3.0. So, USB3 5 GB, and two USB
310 GB, so 3.1 Gen 2,
right off of the chipset itself. Number
six, longevity. So AMD has committed
that this socket will be around until 2020. But of course that doesn't mean
anything if they change electrical requirements. So new CPUs don't actually
fit in them. They're saying no, no, no. We're not replacing this until DDR5 PCIe
Gen 4. And not only will you be able to put new CPUs in a board that you buy
today with a BIOS update, you can even throw an APU in there. You might have
noticed even though Ryzen is a CPU with no onboard graphics, Raven Ridge, which
is Zen plus Vega, is coming later this year and will enable those graphics
outputs that are on a lot of these motherboards. Number seven,
what was number seven? So, there you have it, guys. The top
five exciting things about AMD's new platform on the AM4 socket for their
Ryzen CPUs. Five. Yes, my friends, five.
So, thank you for watching. A huge shout out to AMD for allowing us to be here at
CES 2017. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our other IMO
fantastic videos here at the show. And I will see you again at the next booth.