Asus ROG Zenith Extreme, Strix X399-E & Prime X399-A Motherboards for AMD

New motherboards: Asus ROG Zenith Extreme, Strix X399-E & Prime X399-A Motherboards. Asus has announced the three motherboards it has in preparation for the Threadripper processors. And these come with the E-ATX format. They will include at least one 4 + 4 power connector plus another four-pin, or two 4 + 4, in addition to the ATX. That is the ROG Zenith Extreme, ROG Strix X399-E, and the Prime X399-A. All of these will be on sale in August 2017.

ROG Zenith Extreme, Asus ROG Zenith Extreme, Strix X399-E & Prime X399-A Motherboards for AMD,

Asus ROG Zenith Extreme RGB LED Strips

All have two RGB LED strip headers as well as water pump as well as customizable RGB lighting areas. It has eight DDR4 memory banks for 3600 MHz, with four PCIe graphics card slots, although only the ROG Zenith Extreme allows a four-card SLI.

Asus ROG Strix XG32V, XG27V and XG258

ROG Zenith Extreme, Asus ROG Zenith Extreme, Strix X399-E & Prime X399-A Motherboards for AMD,

ROG Zenith Extreme	ROG Strix X399-E	Prime X399-A
Shape	E-ATX	E-ATX	E-ATX
Memory	8 x DDR4 to 3600+ (OC)	8 x DDR4 to 3600+ (OC)	8 x DDR4 to 3600+ (OC)
Multi-GPU	4 x SLI, CrossFireX	3 x SLI, CrossFireX	3 x SLI, CrossFireX
PCIe	4 x 161 x 4 1×1	4 x 161 x 4 1×1	4 x 161 x 4 1×1
M.2	1 PCIe x4 / SATA 2 PCIe x4	2 PCIe x4 / SATA	2 PCIe x4 / SATA
U.2	1	1	1
SATA 3	6	6	6
Ethernet	Aquantia 10Gbe Intel 1Gbe	Intel 1Gbe	Intel 1Gbe
Wifi	802.11ad WiGig 802.11ac WiFi 2×2 MU-MIMO	802.11ac WiFi 2×2 MU-MIMO	N / A
Audio	SupremeFXRealtek S1220 Codec ESS SABRE9018Q2C DAC	SupremeFX S1220A	Realtek S1220A
USB 3.1 Gen. 2
Price	550 $	–	350 $

The voltage regulation modules (VRM) have a distinct cooling consisting of a pipeline, a heatsink, and a small fan, to maximize the potential of overclocking. They also have two slots for SSD type M.2 2280 with PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, as well as an additional U.2.

ROG Zenith Extreme 10 Gigabit Ethernet

The ROG Zenith Extreme model includes an Ethernet card to achieve speeds of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, as well as an 802.11 ad wifi module with Bluetooth 4.2. The ROG Strix X399-E stays on wifi 802.11 ac. The codecs are S1220 or S1220A from Realtek, and the Ethernet controller is from Intel.