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Looks like the IO on these Asrock MB's are packed out. So it looks like there is no issues there.

Also what is Ultra M.2? I assume it's just marketing?
 
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It's just getting better and better for AMD, as long as Thread Ripper is competitive in performance and price. The 18 core Intel CPU is $2000 and Skylake-X and Kabylake-X aren't soldered. Intel have gone off their rocker. It seems as if Intel were taken by surprise with AMD's offerings and are too far into production to change anything.
 
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It's just getting better and better for AMD, as long as Thread Ripper is competitive in performance and price. The 18 core Intel CPU is $2000 and Skylake-X and Kabylake-X aren't soldered. Intel have gone off their rocker. It seems as if Intel were taken by surprise with AMD's offerings and are too far into production to change anything.

WTF? $2000 chip with crap thermal material? That's shocking if true.
And this socket is huge - love it! Could be a 2 handed install required.
 
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WTF? $2000 chip with crap thermal material? That's shocking if true.
And this socket is huge - love it! Could be a 2 handed install required.

We don't know if the 18 core chip is soldered or not, it is $2000 though. We do know that all the Skylake-X and Kabylake-X chips due for imminent release aren't soldered.
 
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WTF? $2000 chip with crap thermal material? That's shocking if true.
And this socket is huge - love it! Could be a 2 handed install required.

I wonder if AMD 16core will be priced around £1000.
If so and there is added perf with quad channel over dual channel ram over the infinity fabric, I bet it will sell like hot cakes
 
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