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Exclusive: ASUS X590 & X599

I thought it was already hard confirmed that "X590", "Z490", "X590" and all the similar were early code/guess words for what ended up X570, which might have had two variants with more lanes on the higher one. Instead they didn't disable any and went with one model, with asmedia still making the mainstream B550 3.0 stuff to come later.

X599 is just a (logical) guess on a PCIe 4.0 threadripper "chipset" but it doesn't really need one since it comes with its own 64(60) lanes. If the board is up to snuff in theory it should work on X399 CPU lane slots that are within some distance, newer ones could put in redrivers for all of them to be 4.0. Epyc doesn't even bother with a chipset, theres enough SoC stuff onboard and a few "extra" lanes to management controllers to leave all 128 glorious main lanes to I/O like they should be.

I'd rather have an X399 refresh with redrivers and no fan on my chipset please. If they want to paint the number 5 on top thats fine.

All the nvme slots come from CPU on TR already, don't need 15W TDP and a fan just to drive a bunch of sata and extra usb ports. ATX barely has room for 2x16, 2x8, 3x4 to give proper gpu spacing, though asrock crammed the same 60 as 3x16 3x4 on mATX by dropping down to 4 dimms.
 
wait til it releases first because internally the manufactures use different naming schemes.. so it's possible what ever document this "source" got a hold of just had those names on it. for example z370 was i believe called z470 by gigabyte internally and was left on one of the ES boards that was being used to display another product at CES or computex i believe.

the x590 thing has always been a rumor that all the board manufactures have said doesn't exist and was actually an internal naming scheme.

Aluminum said:
I thought it was already hard confirmed that "X590", "Z490", "X590" and all the similar were early code/guess words for what ended up X570, which might have had two variants with more lanes on the higher one. Instead they didn't disable any and went with one model, with asmedia still making the mainstream B550 3.0 stuff to come later.

X599 is just a (logical) guess on a PCIe 4.0 threadripper "chipset" but it doesn't really need one since it comes with its own 64(60) lanes. If the board is up to snuff in theory it should work on X399 CPU lane slots that are within some distance, newer ones could put in redrivers for all of them to be 4.0. Epyc doesn't even bother with a chipset, theres enough SoC stuff onboard and a few "extra" lanes to management controllers to leave all 128 glorious main lanes to I/O like they should be.

I'd rather have an X399 refresh with redrivers and no fan on my chipset please. If they want to paint the number 5 on top thats fine.

All the nvme slots come from CPU on TR already, don't need 15W TDP and a fan just to drive a bunch of sata and extra usb ports. ATX barely has room for 2x16, 2x8, 3x4 to give proper gpu spacing, though asrock crammed the same 60 as 3x16 3x4 on mATX by dropping down to 4 dimms.
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it'll probably use the 15w version of the chipset used on epyc rome but i'd guess with a way more robust cooling solution.. i'm interested to see what they end up doing with the io/expansion slot layouts though.
 
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