1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:08,080 It's no great secret why AMD brought us down to their suite at CES 2017. They 2 00:00:05,279 --> 00:00:11,840 want to show off their Vega GPU, their Ryzen CPU. Those are like the sexy 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:18,480 things that everybody wants to talk about. But of course, a CPU is nothing 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:20,960 without the underlying platform. And 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:27,840 that's what this video is about. The top five things about AMD's AM4 socket and 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:33,280 the surrounding ecosystem. So, number one is full support for enthusiast 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:41,120 technologies. So, I'm talking about overclocking, Crossfire, and 8 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:44,480 SLI. Yes, my friends, AMD got SLI 9 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:48,640 certified on their X370 chipset. Number 10 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:51,600 two is variety choice. So, for the first 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:56,879 time in a while, AMD is launching a new chip, a new socket with support from the 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:02,160 motherboard manufacturers with an entire range of products all the way from basic 13 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:08,000 all the way up to premium products with reinforced memory slots, PCI Express 14 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:11,439 slots, M.2 connectors, uh, great IO on 15 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,960 the back, all of that good stuff. Number 16 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:17,360 three is overclocking. All Ryzen CPUs 17 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:21,759 are going to support overclocking and it's going to come down to the 18 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:24,400 motherboard chipset. So the X370 and the 19 00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:31,439 next one down as to whether or not you are able to tune the frequency of your 20 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:34,880 chip. Number four, native NVMe. So the 21 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:37,680 chip gets 24 PCI Express lanes, 16 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:41,920 dedicated to graphics, another four for NVMe or SATA, and another four to 23 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:49,119 communicate with the chipset. So, that's a nice low latency connection to PCI 24 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:51,600 Express drives. Number five, USB 3 25 00:01:49,119 --> 00:01:59,759 support is here in spades. You get up to 10 USB 3.1 Gen 1, which is formerly 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:04,079 known as 3.0. So, USB3 5 GB, and two USB 27 00:01:59,759 --> 00:02:07,439 310 GB, so 3.1 Gen 2, 28 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:11,520 right off of the chipset itself. Number 29 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:13,599 six, longevity. So AMD has committed 30 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:17,920 that this socket will be around until 2020. But of course that doesn't mean 31 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:22,160 anything if they change electrical requirements. So new CPUs don't actually 32 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:27,920 fit in them. They're saying no, no, no. We're not replacing this until DDR5 PCIe 33 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:31,440 Gen 4. And not only will you be able to put new CPUs in a board that you buy 34 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:35,040 today with a BIOS update, you can even throw an APU in there. You might have 35 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:39,519 noticed even though Ryzen is a CPU with no onboard graphics, Raven Ridge, which 36 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:43,680 is Zen plus Vega, is coming later this year and will enable those graphics 37 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:49,519 outputs that are on a lot of these motherboards. Number seven, 38 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:54,800 what was number seven? So, there you have it, guys. The top 39 00:02:51,840 --> 00:03:02,480 five exciting things about AMD's new platform on the AM4 socket for their 40 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:04,239 Ryzen CPUs. Five. Yes, my friends, five. 41 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:08,959 So, thank you for watching. A huge shout out to AMD for allowing us to be here at 42 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,599 CES 2017. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our other IMO 43 00:03:11,519 --> 00:03:17,720 fantastic videos here at the show. And I will see you again at the next booth.