Introduced in October, the Asus Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard has lastly gone up for preorder with an eye-watering $1,299.99 price ticket, simply $100 cheaper than the 12-core Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7945WX. The premium motherboard, which caters to AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX-series (Storm Peak) processors, is without doubt one of the most over-engineered items of {hardware} you may ever see.
The Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE arrives in an EEB kind issue, that means the motherboard measures 12 x 13 inches (30.5 x 33cm). It is not an enormous problem contemplating the kind of shopper that may use the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE. Nonetheless, it is nonetheless one thing to think about since though E-ATX and EEB share similar dimensions, the rating holes are completely different. Whereas EEB motherboards will match into instances designed for E-ATX motherboards, it does not essentially imply the case has the suitable screw holes.
Though the motherboard options AMD’s sTR5 socket, it solely helps the Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX-series SKUs. The WRX90 chipset, used on the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE, is suitable with the non-Professional variants. Moreover bringing Professional-grade options, the WRX90 chipset is superior to the patron TRX50 chipset in some ways, together with as much as 148 PCIe 5.0 lanes (56 greater than TRX50) and eight-channel reminiscence assist as much as 2TB (versus quad-channel and 1TB on TRX50).
The ability sub-delivery system on the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE has 41 energy phases distributed in a 32+3+3+3 design. That is adequate to feed even the power-hungry Ryzen Threadripper processors, together with the flagship Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7995WX with 96 Zen 4 cores. Consequently, the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE has a bunch of energy connectors. Moreover the everyday 24-pin energy connector, the motherboard has two 8-pin +12V energy connectors, two 8-pin PCIe to CPU energy connectors, and two 8-pin PCIe energy connectors.
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The Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE is a beneficiant motherboard in virtually each facet. It gives 4 M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4 slots linked on to the Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7000 WX-series processor for storage. Two slots can deal with M.2 drives as much as 80mm, whereas the opposite two accommodate SSDs as much as 110mm. In the meantime, the WRX90 chipset provides 4 normal SATA III ports and two SlimSAS slots supporting PCIe 4.0 x4 mode on NVMe drives. AMD RAIDXpert2 expertise is at all times current to permit SATA and PCIe RAID arrays, similar to RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.
As for enlargement, you stand up to seven PCIe 5.0 x16 enlargement slots, with solely considered one of them restricted to x8 electrically. Web connectivity is missing as a result of there is no wi-fi on the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE. The earlier Professional WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II got here with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. Nonetheless, the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE does have two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports primarily based on an Intel controller and one Gigabit Ethernet port primarily based on a Realtek controller for the AST2600 baseboard administration controller (BMC).
The combination of USB ports on the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE contains two USB4 Sort-C ports offered by the ASMedia ASM4242 controller, six USB 10 GBbps Sort-A ports, and one USB 2.0 port. Concerning show ports, there’s one VGA PORT and two mini DisplayPort IN. The motherboard leverages the Realtek ALC1220P audio codec with two 3.5mm audio inputs.
B&H Picture Video presently has the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE on preorder for $1,299.99. The brand new model is 30% dearer than the Professional WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II, which sells for $999 on the similar retailer. The anticipated availability for the Professional WS WRX90E-SAGE SE is January 29, 2024.
