WEBVTT 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 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:11.840 want to show off their Vega GPU, their Ryzen CPU. Those are like the sexy 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:18.480 things that everybody wants to talk about. But of course, a CPU is nothing 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:20.960 without the underlying platform. And 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 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:33.280 the surrounding ecosystem. So, number one is full support for enthusiast 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:41.120 technologies. So, I'm talking about overclocking, Crossfire, and 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:44.480 SLI. Yes, my friends, AMD got SLI 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:48.640 certified on their X370 chipset. Number 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:51.600 two is variety choice. So, for the first 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 00:00:54.160 --> 00:01:02.160 motherboard manufacturers with an entire range of products all the way from basic 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:08.000 all the way up to premium products with reinforced memory slots, PCI Express 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:11.439 slots, M.2 connectors, uh, great IO on 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:14.960 the back, all of that good stuff. Number 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:17.360 three is overclocking. All Ryzen CPUs 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:21.759 are going to support overclocking and it's going to come down to the 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:24.400 motherboard chipset. So the X370 and the 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 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:34.880 chip. Number four, native NVMe. So the 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:37.680 chip gets 24 PCI Express lanes, 16 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:41.920 dedicated to graphics, another four for NVMe or SATA, and another four to 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:49.119 communicate with the chipset. So, that's a nice low latency connection to PCI 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:51.600 Express drives. Number five, USB 3 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 00:01:55.200 --> 00:02:04.079 known as 3.0. So, USB3 5 GB, and two USB 00:01:59.759 --> 00:02:07.439 310 GB, so 3.1 Gen 2, 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:11.520 right off of the chipset itself. Number 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:13.599 six, longevity. So AMD has committed 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:17.920 that this socket will be around until 2020. But of course that doesn't mean 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:22.160 anything if they change electrical requirements. So new CPUs don't actually 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 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 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:35.040 today with a BIOS update, you can even throw an APU in there. You might have 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:39.519 noticed even though Ryzen is a CPU with no onboard graphics, Raven Ridge, which 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:43.680 is Zen plus Vega, is coming later this year and will enable those graphics 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:49.519 outputs that are on a lot of these motherboards. Number seven, 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:54.800 what was number seven? So, there you have it, guys. The top 00:02:51.840 --> 00:03:02.480 five exciting things about AMD's new platform on the AM4 socket for their 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:04.239 Ryzen CPUs. Five. Yes, my friends, five. 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 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 00:03:11.519 --> 00:03:17.720 fantastic videos here at the show. And I will see you again at the next booth.