AMD X399 Motherboard Review Collection
Being at the top of the X399 price stack, Asus has to deliver on all fronts with its Extreme Alpha, and the company succeeds. Serious overclockers and builders with deep pockets can find value in this board compared to other current-generation product offerings. The rest of us should stick look for something (much) more affordable.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
As a refresh to their HEDT product lineup, the ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha became ASUS’s flagship X399 series motherboard. The motherboard has a lot in common with ASUS’s ROG Zenith Extreme, the most high-end X399 motherboard for the Ryzen Threadripper lineup at the time of launch but the Alpha takes the design methodology of the original a notch ahead.
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ASRock does an excellent job of tweaking its design to shave money off its budget-priced X399 board, delivering an adequately equipped and modestly performing motherboard. Though not quite on-par with typical X399 offerings, this interpretation of the chipset may force others to lower the cost of entry into AMD’s HEDT space.
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The ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme was up there with the best of the X399 motherboards we reviewed but there are always improvements to be made and ASUS have returned to the drawing board and put together an upgraded version to allow even the most hardcore users to extract the maximum performance from their setup.
Read more @ OC3D
We review perhaps the best X399 from ASUS, the ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha review. A motherboard that impresses in many ways and features, an X399 motherboard that easily manages the latest many-core Threadripper procs. We’ll pair it with the 24-core / 48 threads Threadripper 2970 WX today.
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We review perhaps the best X399 from ASUS, the ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha review. A motherboard that impresses in many ways and features, an X399 motherboard that easily manages the latest many-core Threadripper procs. We’ll pair it with the 24-core / 48 threads Threadripper 2970 WX today.
Read more @ Guru3D
There are a total of 10 fan headers on the motherboard. Two of them are default PWM mode and located at the top of the motherboard, they are circled in red. Eight of them are default DC mode and are circled in blue. Three temperature input ports are located on the motherboard and they are circled in green.
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The ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 hardware is one of the cheapest X399 motherboard currently on the market and brings the Phantom Gaming name to the high-end desktop market. This entry-level option for Threadripper uses a 2.5 gigabit ethernet controller, and is one of only a few boards to do so.
Read more @ AnandTech
This board is no joke, while the “Alpha” name may seem a bit extreme or silly, it really is the new alpha in my opinion for anyone looking at Threadripper. The new Zenith features a VRM so large it takes up the entirety of the top of the board going from basically end to end with VRM components.
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ASUS put seven fan headers on the motherboard, all of them are hybrid DC/PWM mode fans, one is occupied by the heat sink fans. The orange and blue fan headers are all rated 1A, but the blue share controls. The red and yellow headers offer 3A, but the yellow headers run full speed by default.
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