Gigabyte aorus x399 extreme confirms tdp for 32-core threadripper

The new second generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors will hit the market this summer, and they will be accompanied by new motherboards with TR4 socket, however the new processors are compatible with current TR4 motherboards with BIOS updates. One of the new motherboards will be the Gigabyte Aorus X399 Extreme, which has leaked the TDP of AMD's new 32-core monster.

Gigabyte Aorus X399 Extreme confirms 250W of Ryzen Threadripper 2990X

It was already pointed out that AMD's new flagship processor, the 32-core, 64-wire Ryzen Threadripper 2990X, would arrive with a TDP of 250W, something that has finally been confirmed with the leak of an image of the new Gigabyte motherboard. Aorus X399 Extreme. This 250W TDP will be shared by AMD's 24-core processors, whose name has not yet been leaked.

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The Gigabyte Aorus X399 Extreme employs a 10 + 3-phase VRM, drawing power from a pair of 8-pin EPS connectors. This VRM also stands out for including excellent cooling, and now we know why. 250W is a pretty high TDP, and not just any TR4 motherboard will be suitable for mounting one of these powerful processors.

This motherboard also features a metal plate that covers most of the back, an I / O back cover with built-in protector, and oversized heatsinks in the M.2 slots on the motherboard. The TR4 socket is surrounded by eight DDR4 DIMM slots that support a maximum of 128GB of quad chanel memory.

It also has four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, of which two operate at full x16 bandwidth. The rest of its features include a 10 GbE network port, in addition to two 1 GbE interfaces, 802.11ac WLAN + Bluetooth 5.0 and several USB 3.1 ports.

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