There are an excellent variety of causes to not purchase ASUS’ new Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE high-end motherboard. For starters, it’s costly. It’s presently out there to pre-order for $1,299.99.
The second purpose is it’s designed particularly and solely for AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX-series of processors (Storm Peak). And lastly, the motherboard is available in an EEB type issue which, whereas the identical dimensions as E-ATX motherboards (12 x 13 inches/30.5 x 33.0 cm), it possible gained’t slot into an E-ATX case – the screw holes gained’t be in the fitting place.
That each one stated, if in case you have the money, an acceptable case, and a Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX-series processor, then that is the motherboard you’ll need.
Energy and effectivity
The motherboard’s AMD WRX90 chipset provides severe Professional-grade options and contains as much as 148 PCIe 5.0 lanes and as much as 2TB of quad-channel DDR5 reminiscence throughout eight RAM slots.
The Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE’s VRM contains (16*2)+3+3+3 energy levels (with two 8-pin energy connectors for the CPU) for the facility and effectivity that top-end Ryzen Threadripper processors demand.
It provides 4 M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4 slots (two of which might accommodate the longer M.2 22110 format for higher-capacity drives), 4 SATA III ports, and two SlimSAS connectors to permit customers to attach a lot of extra drives for an enormous storage array. There are seven enlargement slots – six PCIe 5.0 x16 and one PCIe 5.0 x16 (x8 mode).
The motherboard, which is appropriate with each Home windows 10 (64-bit solely) and Home windows 11, doesn’t provide wi-fi or Bluetooth connectivity, but it surely does include two Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and one Realtek Gigabit Ethernet port.
There are a number of USB ports, together with two USB4 Sort-C ports, six USB Sort-A ports (USB 3.1/3.2 Gen 2), and one USB 2.0 port. No Thunderbolt although.
There’s additionally one VGA port, two mini DisplayPort, and two audio jacks for the Realtek ALC1220P 5.1 audio.
B&H Picture Video is presently accepting preorders for the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE for $1,299.99. The motherboard is anticipated to be out there from January 29, 2024.
