AMD and partners show off premium AM5 motherboards for upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs

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AMD held a public webinar event overnight where it invited its motherboard partners to showcase their premium AM5 motherboards. We got a good look at many high end boards, including a rundown of specs and key design features. 

AMD invited representatives from each motherboard manufacturer to talk about their high end X670E motherboards. These boards support AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7000 series CPUs based on the Zen 4 architecture. AM5 motherboards include the new LGA1718 socket, which itself is a fundamental change from the PGA AM4 socket. The pins are now on the motherboard, rather than the CPU.

AM5 includes PCI Express 5.0 support. Most will include 16 lanes across one or two physical 16x slots, as well as four dedicated lanes for a PCIe 5.0 SSD. The AM5 platform also includes DDR5 memory support, a higher power delivery specification and in a welcome move, compatibility with AM4 CPU coolers. This means virtually any cooler released in the last five or more years will be AM5 compatible.

The CPUs themselves are to be released in September. So for now, some of the specifics including performance, memory and overclocking capabilities are yet to be revealed, but this motherboard showcase gives us a welcome glimpse into what we can expect from the new platform. So, in alphabetical order, let’s begin with what Asrock is bringing to the party.

ASRock showcased five X670E motherboards. The flagship is the X670E Taichi Carrara, a special edition board built to celebrate ASRock’s 20-year anniversary. It includes a distinct marble aesthetic, so look out for some interesting mod builds with that one. The X670E Taichi includes a 26-phase VRM, and Thunderbolt 4 support.

Interestingly, Asrock will release several cheaper X670E boards.