SECRET ROOM - AMD 16 CORE "THREADRIPPER" MOTHERBOARD
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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799 words · ~3 min read
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link in the video description you guys aren't going to believe this we are in
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the back room we are getting an early Hands-On to give you some idea how fresh
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this product is this is not even a real box for it look it's like I don't even
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know what this says but like it probably says like top secret or something
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like that because inside here we have ASUS's new fled ship AMD motherboard one
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that is for a socket that quite frankly
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is probably still quite a ways out from being something you can actually buy
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this right here is the Zenith extreme
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you'll have to give me a minute I've got my uh 24 pin connector all ready to go
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so I can get all the RGB lighting illuminated this is going to be for
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AMD's upcoming well rumored thread
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Ripper product so that's going to be again and rumored
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124 or 16 core CPUs in a very high-end
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Enthusiast SL workstation type platform
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and this board has all kinds of features
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some of which we've seen before and some of which we haven't so at its heart
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we've got their brand new socket TR4 this is an LGA socket the first time
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for AMD on the consumer I mean if you want to call it consumer but on the
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consumer side of things it has 4,094
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pins and you need a freaking screwdriver
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to open up the cover and when we do that we see why this thing looks
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extraordinarily fragile and has a configuration that I've never really
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seen before it almost looks like it's two CPUs being installed in a single
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socket which when you think about the fact that these things are going to have
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64 PCI Express Lanes hm might give you
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some hints as to how exactly it is that AMD is building up this sort of modular
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Zen architecture CPU here looking pretty bananas it supports quad Channel memory
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and oh hold on a minute what the actual hell is that this is what ASUS is
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calling a dim. two slot now we've seen
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m.2 ssds before in fact it's got one
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under the chipset cooler right down here
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but this is the new way so ASUS is building custom memory module looking
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things they're still running off PCI Express so it's not like a a memory SSD
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ope thing or anything like that but you can put two on here for better cooling
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without having your SSD sticking out of the middle of the board it's running an
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x399 chipset another obvious move from
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AMD to make their board sound kind of like the Intel one but like better we're
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going all the way back to the Athlon XP performance rating days apparently it's
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got two 8 Pin power connectors which
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again adds uh some more credibility to my theory about it basically being two
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CPUs in there and it's got this is crazy
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we've got 802.11 a Wi-Fi so that's like
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multi- gigabit Wi-Fi on this thing it's going to come with a 10 gbit network
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card it's got freaking lights to tell you which uh audio port you're plugging
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in from the back and it's SLI certified
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it's I mean what else can we say about this other than that you're going to
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have to sell your car if you want to own one I'm estimating no one here will
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confirm or deny but thing is going to probably cost in the $599 US range plus
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the fact that you're going to be spending like a th000 bucks plus on a
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CPU to go in it but at least hey you get
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an RGB back plate right so thanks for
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and I'll see you guys again at the next like dank ass back room Early Access
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thing