Monday, October 21st 2019
GIGABYTE Threadripper TRX40 AORUS Motherboard Teased
AMD is going to launch its premium HEDT Threadripper CPUs, based on 7 nm manufacturing process, as soon as November 5th arrives. To prepare for the launch, manufacturers like GIGABYTE have been working hard to bring new CPUs to life, by integrating AMD's new chipsets into the new motherboard models. Dubbed "Castle Peak" and "Sharkstooth", the two new CPU variants will be accompanied by TRX40, TRX80 and WRX80 chipsets, each enabling additional features.
We now got a hold of the first picture of what appears to be GIGABYTE's AORUS motherboard based on TRX40 chipset. Coming in with the E-ATX form factor, this motherboard is similar in size with the previous X399 AORUS Xtreme model. It features four PCIe 4.0 x16 slots and eight slots that support four-channel DDR4 memory, so it is likely that TRX40 chipset is meant only for such configuration, with TRX80 and WRX80 chipsets being reserved for eight-channel memory configurations. Another thing to note is the presence of chipset fan, indicating that the TDP of these chipsets is high and it needs to be actively cooled in normal use cases. If you remember, plenty of X570 boards have a fan on chipset as well due to their TDP.
We now got a hold of the first picture of what appears to be GIGABYTE's AORUS motherboard based on TRX40 chipset. Coming in with the E-ATX form factor, this motherboard is similar in size with the previous X399 AORUS Xtreme model. It features four PCIe 4.0 x16 slots and eight slots that support four-channel DDR4 memory, so it is likely that TRX40 chipset is meant only for such configuration, with TRX80 and WRX80 chipsets being reserved for eight-channel memory configurations. Another thing to note is the presence of chipset fan, indicating that the TDP of these chipsets is high and it needs to be actively cooled in normal use cases. If you remember, plenty of X570 boards have a fan on chipset as well due to their TDP.
25 Comments on GIGABYTE Threadripper TRX40 AORUS Motherboard Teased
Sorry, but if you're going to make an unsubstantiated statement like that, you better be able to back it up with some facts.
I mean PCI gives 75 watts right? and this 6 pin can add more power to that? and the card can then also actually take more then that 75 watts from the pci slot even though that would be operating out of spec?
This is what EVGA's manual says about their 6-pin connector on their X299 boards.My guess is that it simply offloads the motherboard a bit by providing another power input for the PCIe slots when there's a heavy power load on the PCIe slots, i.e. when running multiple GPUs. Obviously, this might vary between board makers.
Those who are saying x570 chipset fan is loud should be sure the bios is updated. I've reviewed several and iirc, only the asrock board could I hear the fan after boot.
That 6 pin is to prevent the Mother Board 24-pin getting overloaded in multi-GPU setup, or by something like Rx480 or GTX780 which had known issues of overloading the PCI-E slot.
So bored of this foolishness.
"USB TurboCharger for Mobile Device Fast Charge Support ".
The RGB ram is another matter. They should have a bios option to turn it off.