NEW AMD AM4 MOTHERBOARDS AND 7TH GENERATION CPUs
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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thank you to Razer for sending us to Pax West 2016 this year check out their new
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blade stealth in the video description down below so we're here after the show
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after everyone has left to check out the AMD 7th generation Apu processors and
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am4 motherboards super interesting super
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cool but we don't have them here and we have no videos of them either so we'll
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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
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new am4 platform supports 7th generation AMD a series OEM desktops that's mainly
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what we're going to be talking about today although they didn't have information on what oems or where you'd
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be able to buy them all I was able to figure out was that at the very least HP
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is going to support this at Costco as of
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right now they will support Seventh Generation processors with a 35 watt and
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65 watt TDP with the 65 watt TDP
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matching up to the performance of previous generation 95 watt TDP
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processors they will also support new ddr4 memory with up to 20 400 MHz of
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speed this 35 wat and 65 wat TDP split
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enables you to go for a performance angle or a cool and quiet angle on the
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platform now this is currently OEM only
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support and theoretically you would be able to install a Zen processor into
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this am4 motherboard I was confirmed with that from AMD the problem here is
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that it might not happen because BIOS support would have to be given to you by
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the oems so it's actually rather unlikely now am4 motherboards will come
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with a stack of different chipsets for small forf factor you'll have AMD XB or
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a300 chipsets for the essential like workstation PCS you'll have AMD A320
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chipsets and then once you start getting into mainstream a little bit higher
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performance stuff you'll have AMD B 350s
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now for enthusiast chipsets we don't actually have the name of the chipset
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yet but we'll have to wait till probably the Zen launch to get that other
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features that they're currently calling out are PCIe gen 3 USB 3.1 Gen 2 NVMe
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support and SATA Express there's also a
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huge list of processors that support am4 motherboards and they range from about
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two cores to four cores boost clocks of 3.4 GHz to 4.2 GHz on the graphic side
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of things you got Radeon R5 up to Radeon R7 with GPU cus from 6 all the way up to
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8 and clock speeds of about 847 up to
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118 now for those of you that have been excited for Zen this is very interesting
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this is the groundwork that is being laid out for the Zen architecture we
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need that am4 platform support and what's cool is that these oems are going
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to be rolling this out and sort of beta testing it for us any problems that come
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up with the am4 platform will be found before Zen launches and that's really
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cool if you thought this was interesting and have anything to comment about it
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let me know in the comments down below or on Twitter at Linus Tech also thanks
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to Razer for sending us to Pax West 2016 this year we're doing a huge giveaway
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with this because we just passed 3 million freaking subscribers we're
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giving a new razor blade and a new razor blade stealth two awesome super high
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performance Ultrabooks so click that video description link down below edel
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Yago made custom art to be etched into the laptops looks amazing check it out
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stay subscribed to L Tech tips to see all the rest of our pwest 2016 content
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and I'll see you next time