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hey Ron we are at the ACS booth at Computex 2017 looking at one of the stars of the show is an axe 399 motherboards we've shown a few axe 299 motherboards already this is the first one we're looking at for AMD's cred Ripper lineup X 399 we're be going over some of the board details we've looked a little bit at the power design don't have a whole lot of detail for you and we'll walk through some of the other stuff we've observed on the board before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by course their and their t1 race chair you can learn more in the link in the description below q on race chair is a bucket style gaming seat that cost $350 let's get into actually 9 on motherboards so this is the zenith extreme it will be an Asus flagship board they have more boards forthcoming but this bone they're showing today at Computex the zenith extreme as we see it here first of all let's talk about the socket so the socket for thread ripper is massive plainly it's got three screws that are torque style screws as we understand it now either an V or the motherboard vendor will include a tool for that but probably the mothers were fender so you actually have to unscrew these get access to the socket and then if we were to pull this plate off the die would be about the size of these this kind of rectangle area here we have a die photo from the Andy press event earlier that we'll show in one of our articles so that's your your actual cooling target for cold plates underneath there's kind of a split where it'll look like the pin it's an LG a socket are split between the two dies so again we have photos of that from the AMD event but that's what we have for the socket it's large on the backside there's a huge piece of metal to hold and retain it all in place speaking of cooling so there's an interesting challenge here where a lot of the coolers on the market have a much smaller cold place or contact area than the size of the actual IHS fortunately it doesn't really matter if the IHS is large because what we really care about is going to die we'll see in testing obviously how that actually works out thermally but the theory is you could actually use a standard like cold plate on any CLC on the market as long as you're covering the die okay but again we're looking at in the CB review going back to the motherboard for power design it looks to be an eight phase-- v core design I don't know the power components of fire I'm thinking international rectifier though because we're everywhere this show every single board we've seen so eight phase-- memories to phase so it's eight plus two that's too precise we've got two and two for the phase in on the memory and then moving down the board and looking at the PCIe slot the PCIe setup here there are four total full 16 length plots on the zenith extreme and then two of them are we can actually see physically wired x16 right here and x16 right here if you look at the physical wiring for this one on the backside the board sacks 8x8 then you've got the other smaller slots there as well Red Rivers supports 64 PCIe lanes so you could actually do quite a lot but for what we're looking at here you can definitely do two full acting setup moving on from those and looking at some of the other things on the board a lot of the stuff on the bottom asus has had for a while now on their boards there is a 4-pin molex for extra GPU power for GPU overclocking and remove some of the strain from the PCIe socket itself and then moving right we've got normal USB USB front panel all that stuff with your safe boot and reset switches for overclocking which are things that we actually use that red button quite frequently in our own overclocking with a m4 and the rise in line there is standard SATA over here and then plenty of it there's m2 support under this plate so for i/o and storage you can remove these two screws and remove the glossy part of the chipset cover that comes out and then there's an MDOT two socket under there I don't know the details on how they're cooling it or what the thermal pad is there anything like that but you could put an m2 device in there this we've got you dot to support and SATA USB 3 going up the board start and reset button things like that and then interestingly to eight pin power connectors in the top right as I understand it now it's something like an eight plus four standard but they're going with two eight pins here being in a flagship for that kind of makes sense if they're try to make sure they support overclocking towards the heat sink just briefly he thinks here we've got a standard aluminum heatsink these aren't all that critical or power component cooling anymore well they do have a heat pipe running out of this side and going down the side near the memory then you have your i/o cover there's an OLED screen here where you can configure for time flashing for time customs outputs things like that so that is the Asus zenith extreme board for thread Ripper we'll 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