Allen
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ASRock [, Gigabyte,] and MSI X399 Motherboards For AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs Detailed – Pre-Orders Start in Less Than 24 Hours
..The Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7 is the flagship motherboard of the lineup. In terms of design, the X399 AORUS Gaming 7 has a standard ATX design with the largest consumer socket we have seen to date, the TR4. The TR4 is a lot similar to the SP3 socket which is designed for the EPYC server platform and feature 4094 pins in total. The socket is surrounded by eight DDR4 DIMM slots that can support up to 128 GB of ram..
No prices -- but I assume expensively expensive. Picture of Gigabyte motherboard attached. Note the large CPU socket.
Threadripper will be expensive and not faster than Ryzen 1800X in games -- today.
Thing is Threadripper may be a better long term purchase. CPUs will not get much faster per core. Rather, games will start to use all those cores. So, 5 years from now one may need a Threadripper (or Intel equivalent) for maximum gaming. But, I'm not recommending Threadripper for games -- today.
