Following information regarding motherboards ASRock i Gigabyte for Ryzen 7000 processors, which the manufacturers themselves shared and then deleted, some details regarding similar ASUS boards appeared on the Web. One of the users of the Chinese social network Baidu posted a picture of the ASUS X670-P Prime WiFi board with the new Socket AM5 (LGA 1718) processor socket.
Image Source: VideoCardz / Baidu
Earlier rumors claimed that some of AMD’s older 600-series chipsets, which became known one of these days, in fact will be a set of two chips. In turn, the junior AMD B650 system logic will be a single chip, a kind of half of a pair of chips of the older segment.
Higher resolution image. Source: Baidu
On the published diagram of the ASUS X670-P Prime WiFi motherboard, you can mark the contact pads for installing two chips of the X670 chipset. One is located in the usual place on the right side of the board, under the RAM connectors, the second is located under the PCIe x16 slot. Having two chips will double the number of supported PCIe lanes as well as I/O interfaces. Apparently, AMD decided to take this approach in order to avoid overheating of one system logic chip. An earlier leak hintedthat the boards will be equipped with a passive chipset cooling system.
Also on the image you can note the contact pads for two PCIe x4 slots and one PCIe x1, a 14-phase VRM power subsystem and four slots for DDR5 RAM. In addition, the novelty will offer two M.2 connectors for NVMe drives and six SATA III ports.
Image Source: AMD
ASUS is also reportedly preparing new models of ProArt series motherboards for Ryzen 7000 processors: ProArt X670E-Creator WIFI and ProArt B650-Creator.
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