There are a selection of causes to not purchase ASUS’ new Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE high-end motherboard. To start with, it’s costly. It’s at the moment accessible for pre-order for $1,299.99.
The second purpose is that it’s designed particularly and solely for AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX collection of processors (Storm Peak). And eventually, the motherboard is available in an EEB kind issue, which, whereas having the identical dimensions as E-ATX motherboards (12 x 13 inches/30.5 x 33.0 cm), in all probability will not match into an E-ATX case – the screw holes won’t be in the suitable place.
All informed, if in case you have the cash, an acceptable case and a Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX collection processor, that is the motherboard you need.
Energy and effectivity
The motherboard’s AMD WRX90 chipset presents critical Professional-grade options and consists of 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 consists of (16*2)+3+3+3 energy phases (with two 8-pin energy connectors for the CPU) for the facility and effectivity that top-end Ryzen Threadripper processors require.
It presents 4 M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4 slots (two of which may accommodate the longer M.2 22110 format for increased capability drives), 4 SATA III ports and two SlimSAS connectors that enable customers to attach numerous further drives for a big storage array. There are seven enlargement slots – six PCIe 5.0 x16 and one PCIe 5.0 x16 (x8 mode).
Suitable with each Home windows 10 (64-bit solely) and Home windows 11, the motherboard would not supply 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 selection 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 a VGA port, two mini DisplayPort and two audio jacks for the Realtek ALC1220P 5.1 audio.
B&H Picture Video is at the moment accepting pre-orders for the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE for $1,299.99. The motherboard is anticipated to be accessible from January 29, 2024.
