ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha Review

Test Setup

ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX
Corsair LPX 2666MHz
Corsair LPX 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2
nVidia GTX 980
Corsair ML Fans
Coolermaster ML360 RGB TR4 AIO Cooler

Overclocking

The key revision on the Alpha version of the Zenith Extreme is the greatly improved power section and VRM cooler. This clearly pays dividends as we could push our Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX all the way to 4 GHz across all 32 cores. That’s 64 threads of 4 GHz loveliness for those of you who feel that you haven’t got quite enough CPU horsepower. Best of all the fans on the VRM cooler never spun up at all. A win all round.