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we've got a lot of rising news leading up to the cpu's inevitable launch at this point it's not too far away so for today we'll be recapping some of the news on the rise in stock CPU coolers which we've sort of independently validated looking at the ACS X 370 boards and then some rise and die shots for a deeper dive of some of the architecture before getting to the proper review which will eventually be posted where we'll have more of the details fully explained but for now we can look at what is out there and what has finally been to some extent confirmed because it's all done rumors and leaks up until now before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by raw fury publishers of Kingdom a side-scrolling city builder that we previously reviewed and the new tormentor X Punisher he'll an up game where everyone has one HP click the link below for more information on those in a previous content peace we talked about how some motherboards at CES have the text s3 radiator support printed on them at the AMD CES suite and of course no one from AMD would talk about that text but we've already shown that we talked about what that probably means which is going to be likely a stock cooler for one of the AMD rising SKUs it would probably be a higher-end one or an overclocking targeted SKU so S 3.0 radiator support we already know that's going to be a thing and it will probably be in the line of these stock coolers for Rison what we haven't talked about in the past is that there is probably also going to be an s-1 and an s2 I've heard two types of names on these I've heard s1 2 and 3 and I've heard SR 1 2 & 3 we're just gonna go with s4 now and drop the are the s-1 stock cooler from what we've been able to gather is supposed to be a 65 watt TDP CPU targeted cooler so that would be the lower end of the coolers I don't have any images for any of these right now that will fly out the wait until launch but s2 is supposed to support 95 watt TDP CPUs and is also equipped with some form of RGB lighting whether that is through an MCU or not I'm not clear on right now but some form of RGB lighting probably not too different from the Wraith cooler although that was just a white LED I would think it would be something similar to that just with the RGB since that's basically a requirement at this point the s3 cooler which we know thanks for that motherboard I think was a Biostar board or max on one of them but thanks that board we know it is probably a radiator so liquid cooler and a IO which actually conveniently this also ships with a IO is back in the day so it's not the first time AMD would be doing that s3 is supposed to be rated for 125 watt TDP and it's also going to include some form of LEDs hooked up through an MCU from what we've been able to gather and that MTU would be theoretically controllable somehow now what we also know is that some of the board vendors from what it sounds like will have their own applications that will allow modification of the s2 coolers or sr2 coolers and their RGB LEDs not 100% sure exactly how that's going to work just yet but that's kind of what what we know based on some information gathering as a side note from what we understand the package height of the horizon CPUs will be a bit taller than the FX series CPUs and that would explain why at least in part there are new mounting kits despite looking kind of the same if you just were to eyeball the board the packet right as we understand it should be higher though so that would of course missus pay a different mounting kit moving on to motherboards we've already detailed gigabyte MSI Biostar and a couple of other motherboards for the amp or sockets but now we've got some news on Asus that they actually posted themselves the immediate horizon line up for ACS will be championed by the crosshair six hero and the prime series X 370 board both of these are actually 70 chipsets the prime one lands about where Strix lands on the marketing stack as though it looks like Strix has potentially been replaced in the AMD series board with the word prime starting with the prime X 370 motherboard we see that ACS is running the three full-length PCIe slots with two of them at dawn in the ubiquitous armors that we've seen taking every marketing box lately the top PCIe slot on the prime xc70 is wired for x16 with the lower two wired four by eight configurations looking over the board closely we can spot the multi GPU marks chips just above CMOS and that's something we've seen on most and the amp or motherboards thus far including MSI's boards at CES 2017 and we've already created an Andy rising block diagram from previous content that explains the lane assignment but we'll bring that back on the screen now you can check our an for chipset differences video and article for a full breakdown on the a B and x-303 chipsets and the X 370 looking to the far right of the prime xc70 board there are eight total SATA 3 slots rated at the usual six gigabits per second with one m dot 2 location above the top PCIe x16 slot it appears that this M 2 slot can run by 4 PCIe or SATA both of which are supported by the chipset near the CPU socket are the large inductors from the vrm and those appeared to be accompanied that by an actual heatsink for once it has fins rather than a just a big block of aluminum that doesn't actually really cool all that efficiently there's also an RGB header adjacent to the chassis and a IO pump headers all near the CPU sockets we're expecting the prime xb-70 to land between 150 and 180 for price point in the u.s. anyway the other model the crosshair 6 hosts the same PCIe configuration that there was different marks positioning on the board and it also has the same SATA 3 slot configuration the m2 port has also been relocated just south of the chipset out of the way of the GPUs with the RGB header located just below the m2 slot near the water pump and USB 3 headers last of these we see ln2 mode pins and then a set of troubleshooting and boot buttons that are always nice to have and generally on these higher-end my boards we're expecting between 200 and 300 dollars for the crosshair board iOS are also officially announced their motherboard lineup the other day but we already detailed basically all of their major board offerings in our previous content from CES so they're curious about that you can check that content we'll link one of them and the cards or something like that for the video in the other Rison news for today there are some new die shots of the horizon architecture and these were posted by a Japanese site PC watch have been reposted a million times at this point but basically there are shots with dye we can see individual cores one of the individual cores and then a CC X complete diagram the dye shot mostly details things we already knew like the presence of a single floating-point unit and single energy unit per core rather than boulders there's old design of one FPU ship between two integer units the I shot also shows the layout of the core complex modules which will contain four cores each with their own l2 cache and flexible l3 cache split between them this is a particularly new information but the images are so we can actually see what the same looks like now and that's of course important to really just getting a better idea of how its laid out and Andy plans to use this CPU design going forward so get familiar with it because there's a good chance you'll be seeing this for future generations following Rison and in terms of process Andy has finally mostly at parity with Intel at this point they're both 14 nanometer process Intel's it's technically denser packed than Andy's version but they each have their own characteristics and will obviously not really be able to validate anything or how performances until we've got it in the hand so stay tuned for the Rison review be sure to subscribe to that so you don't miss it links in the description below as always for 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