ASUS’s STRIX line of products is one of the most popular choices among gamers for bringing strong gaming oriented features and aesthetics to an affordable mid-range price point. ASUS now brings that along to the big end of the AMD Ryzen ecosystem, known officially as Threadripper, in the form of the ASUS ROG STRIX X399-E Gaming Motherboard. Packing AMD’s first…
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In our two reviews about AMD Ryzen thread Ripper us has the ASUS ROG accompanied Zenith Extreme and thereby served well. The ASUS motherboard , however, stepped back into the second row, as it was primarily about the new processors. Time to take a closer look at the motherboard. Because such a motherboard does not get lost in our editorial office every day.
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Equipped with Aura Sync RGB lighting for added customisation, it’s sure to look stunning. You’ll get high-end features like high speed DDR4 support, dual M.2 storage, USB 3.1 GEn 2, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, SupremeFX audio, and much more.
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As an ROG board, you can bet that ASUS AURA lighting support is built-in for use with ASUS and compatible RGB accessories. The back side of the package shows a visual of the board and list the specifications on the back, along with some basic info on the USB 3.1 front panel socket on the PCB, the Aura lighting, all-new SupremeFX audio codec, and 3D printing accessory mounts.
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This premium SKU is billed as a Threadripper alternative to the Rampage VI Extreme, a similarly fully-featured motherboard for Intel’s Core X lineup that will suit gamers and content creators with deep pockets and a penchant for overclocking.
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The name of the MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC tells you a great deal about the features you get with this motherboard. Clearly the X399 chipset supports AMD Threadripper and the ‘Gaming Pro’ name suggests we’re not talking about a workstation product.
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Today we have a premium X399 AMD Threadripper motherboard to review, the ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme. The ASUS ROG Xenith Extreme is an excellent AMD X399 workstation motherboard with a massive 64x PCIe 3.0 lanes ready for GPUs, storage, and networking needs.
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Naturally it supports AMD Threadripper, just as the X399 model code suggests, while other models of Taichi use Intel X99, X299, Z270 and Z370 chipsets, as well as AMD X370, so there is a Taichi for each of the current CPU platforms.
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The GIGABYTE AX370-Gaming 5 board features a matte black PCB with with a white armor overlay protecting the rear panel and audio components. In line with their AORUS Intel boards, GIGABYTE spread RGB LEDs throughout the board’s surface, configurable via the UEFI or the windows app.
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One item deserves its own five minutes of fame: A break-out PCIe card that houses the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 WiFi module and antenna headers. This solution occupies a lone PCIe x1 slot and a USB 2.0 header on the board. We’d recommend populating it in the bottom x1 slot. If you’re using SLI or three dual-slot PCIe cards, you’re forced to put the card into the bottom x16 slot, which is less than ideal.
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