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everyone we are here at the thread Ripper and Vega event with six motherboards for Andy's thread river processor that is the X 399 socket only two of them we saw previously at Computex and then the other four are new to us so we're going to walk through the feature set on these boards go through the basics from what we can tell by looking at them anyway and then as always you can find more details on the rest of this event and its coverage in the link in the description below before getting to that this content is brought to you by the Thermaltake flow RGB closed-loop liquid cooler which is a 360 millimeter radiator plus 3 120 fans that are RGB illuminated if then we'll take it ring fans at that this is a 4.5 done 8 attack pump which is one of the faster pumps you can learn more at the link in the description below we're starting off with the MSI gaming Pro carbon board this is a branding they've had for a while now and it's on the x3 99 model so starting with this one a few main things to point out these are eight dim boards so you can have eight memory modules they are quad-channel for this platform and then of course the tr4 sockets in the middle takes a lot of space but it also has a big no-go zone so the motherboard vendors know where to keep out is to keep out zone to prevent potentially any issues with coolers colliding with memory things like that so that's all standard stuff but what's interesting here is you've got standard 24-pin power over there of course but then there are two eight pins some of these boards are eight plus four this one is double eight and in addition to that the vrm design and layout we don't have a way to take the heatsink off right now today but it looks like an eight phase-- I want to say eight plus three it might be either an eight plus three or it might be a bit different than that I can't really quite see the MOSFETs but that's what we're looking at on top of the vrm is heat things I really wanted to point out so MSI we've kind of beaten up over there at gaming Pro carbon heat sinks in the past which is just a giant block we went on no fins and sure aluminium will cool better than no aluminium but a giant block doesn't really do anything for you this is actually a finned heat sink so well done amis I thank you for taking initiative and being one of the only motherboard any factors in the last couple months to actually do a property thing so it's got a thin stack here you can actually get some cool answer there there it is actually a pass through fan on this center area too so good to see that like to see that more from other manufacturers especially following X 299 and then for moving on to the the PCIe slots want to point this out as well so these are actually really well spaced for this time a lot of these boards where you have tons of PCIe slots they tend to collide with one another once you start using two slot or higher cards which are most cards on the market this one's space in a way that you can do dual slot dual abdul-allah all the way down and the only time you're going to run into an issue is if you have like a 2.5 slot card or reading this 7 segment display in the bottom corner if you have a card in that bottom slot because you're going to cover that and that's a bob viously fairly critical piece of hardware so you don't to cover that so I can probably position a bit better but that's what they've got on there and then under each or between each of the slots is an m dot 2 space so there are 22 sixties on either side here and a 20 to 80 form factor right there and then the ones with the 22 60s have the PCIe smaller slots and then as far as wiring let's see what that looks like so the top PCIe slot is hardwired for 16 the next 16 is down here that would be the third slot and the other two are by 8 so 16 by 8 16 by 8 is the configuration and thread ripper supports 60 PCIe lanes not counting the 4 going to the chipset or counting before going to the chipset 64 total so they're really just showing off at this point it is 16 32 and another 8 so you have 240 another 8 so you up to 48 and there are 3 M 2 slots as well which you actually populate so that gives an idea for the PCIe laying count actually there's another header I didn't notice till just now this is a 6 pin I am pretty sure yes PCIe power so that provides extra power to the video cards how useful that is I'm not sure we'll talk to build joy but I think that caps most of stuff on this board it's got RGB LEDs as you can see by the cables running to the i/o cover and the audio zone and then other than that we've got 1 2 4 6 8 SATA 3 ports two USB 3.0 headers pre overclocked reset and power buttons of an anon board USB slot as well if you prefer those to the backside but let's move on to the next board now I think we're going to look at the asrock X 299 Tai Chi next so here's the asrock X 399 Tai Chi this will be one of azar Exploud ships as it normally is of this branding and this board is another one so it's again 24 pin but then eight pin over here and then hidden up here is a four so it's eight plus four for the EPS 12-volt power that's something we've seen on some 2 X 2 9 9 boards as well and I'm thinking that 8 plus 4 is probably what the thread Ripper reference requirement is and to the people who do double eights are just going above and beyond for overclocking or whatever whether or not it's actually necessary again eight dims again quad-channel big thick block of aluminum on top of the vrm which covers both be chokes the inductors that is and the FET and it looks like another see one two three four five six seven eight looks like another eight phase-- I want to say I can kind of see the MOSFETs in there so I'm going to go ahead and call that as maybe another eight phase-- and then other than that typical shielding for everything it I think there's an LED under this chipset cover chipset heat sink and then spacing for PCIe slots is again double spaced they've got room for quad dual slot cards and then once again we are at by 16 by 8 by 16 by 8 for the PCIe lanes wired to the PCIe slots that's what we have there additional features include the segment seven segment display again kind of obscured by the fourth slot PCIe device and next to that there's reset and power button on the board always nice to have em dot two devices one two three right there with it looks like one of them being a 20 to 80 at least so that's what we have for PCIe devices this one has a lot of fan headers as well I'm seeing up there's a ton of fan headers on this so there's one in here hidden in this slot is one over here there are two fan head right here soar up to four and then we've got another one down here sort of five I don't think the sport is the one with the most but it has a good amount see any other items of note on this board I suppose we can go to the i/o so is U dot to support which getting a bit more popular kinda at the tail end of where it needs to be two four six eight SATA three slots and then six pin power for PCIe power as well which seems to be a trend so far starting with the Amazon carbon but we can move on now to the next board which will be the asrock fatality X 399 professional gaming so here's the next one fatality professional gaming pretty similar design if you recognize it it's because we just looked at it let's add I cheat a lot of the stuffs the same differences are in the branding so right here is different I'm not sure if the MOSFETs are different we haven't opened it up - or taking off the heat things to find out just like the last one we've got a heat pipe routed for the cooling solution which is just two large aluminum blocks heat pipe between and cooling for what looks like I don't know about the same size be around probably saying via Rama's last board but we'll find out more later beyond that more well spaced PCIe slots thank you to the manufacturers for finally doing this so four slots again they are wired sixteen eight sixteen eight and then other than that everything really looks pretty much the same on this board there's fans lots are the same you got to again Sam SATA 3 slot count same PCIe extra power header and on an 8 + 4 4 the EPS 12 volt with differences being things that we can't see or can't quantify right now but aside from the heatsink cover that is where the chipset so that's the fatality board the pro gaming a couple more to go through the next one that's new is the gigabyte Horus gaming 7 which is spelled incorrectly on this title card so this is the Horus gaming 7 and this one not sure if this I don't think this is going we saw at copy text either way it's a lot more developed if it is a lot of a couple different things here's they've gone with the full PCIe and memory reinforced slots which is partly partly a looks marketing thing partly a function thing so it's M quad-channel they're LED illuminated for all eight LED illumination on some of the other devices on here including PCIe I think then PCI use spacing is not quite as good on this one but you could do still do the same pin so one two three four five PCIe slots with one dead center here that you're obviously not going to utilize if you're doing a bunch of dual slot cards and these are wired 16 8 4 16 8 with 220 280 m dot two slots here what looks like a twenty to sixty over here that you can remove it's part of the heatsink so it kind of blends and then for additional features they are running or core features even an eight plus four EPS 12-volt the ton of fan header is actually more than the previous boards one two three four five pwm headers in the top right in addition to one hidden down here sort up to six PWM and that's not one right there I think that's a two more eight PWM so at least 8pw hanpan headers on here so a lot of fan headers and then on board USB for troubleshooting diagnosis and another seven segment display with pretty standard other features two four six eight SATA 3 slots pretty much wraps that board so you got two left which are really just going to refresh as what we saw at copy text here's the prime X 399 board the last one is the zenith which we showed at Computex you're curious about the zenith that one's not really changed so you can check our Computex coverage for it but the prime board shown here is new to us so heat pipe design on the heatsink the heatsink routes over here for the vrm or star the V the memory vrm and then over here for the core v RM and then everything else is eight plus four a couple four pin headers this board looks a little more better than the other that's because it's an e ATX board it is actually wider so stuff is spaced out more PCIe slots you have really three that are primarily usable they are the reinforced ones so top center bottom with spacing or with the assignments of sixteen eight sixteen eight and a four right there yes a four right there and then actually a pretty massive heat sink under here which is that a fan there's a fan in there look fans on these other ones I think it's the only one with a fan on it now both ACS boards have bands on them right down there it looks like a little 60 mil or 80 mil of 1080 it's a 60 maybe a tiny fan there 40 Hana and that's just sitting on top of the i/o rear i/o and it bridges into the memory heatsink which is of course connected by heat pipe to the core vrm heatsink so that's actually really cool Asus Asus has gone with active cooling on their V RMS for this board maybe that's what a I don't know that's what their Baro is looking forward to the new PRM design because it's actively cooled so hard to screw that up but yeah so this is the prime X 399 we've covered pretty much all the stuff here to see you to 6 SATA 3 slots from USB 3 all the standard features last board here is the only showed at Computex which is the zns board and this is their flagship 4 X 399 it's got chipset cover here LEDs and then everything else is just a beefed-up version of the prime so - 8 pin power headers looks like the same BRM the same cooling solution a bit different cover panel with an OLED readout right there and then everything else PCIe slots are a bit different yeah PCA is a bit different I'll reinforced 4 of them and they are 16 8 16 8 with a 4 there and other features you dot 2 6 8 a 3 and nothing else special that I'm seeing right now I would have to actually test it oh you know there is one more things the dim m dot 2 slot here so that you can mount m dot 2 devices into a memory then basically so cool stuff that's all on the 4 dip switches will cover this stuff more in person once we've got the shredder for sample and the board's in hand to test maybe have build Zoid look at a few of them for the vrm analysis thank you for watching as always you can subscribe for more patreon.com/scishow directly gamers next and after full coverage as always bring back up a shirt like this one the anniversary edition on gamers access squarespace.com they were watching I'll 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