Gigabyte ME33-AR0 AMD EPYC 8004 Motherboard Review

[Eric Smith]

We review the Gigabyte ME33-AR0. This AMD EPYC 8004 motherboard is the third in the company's single socket EATX motherboard line we have seen

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[tiernano]

Quick typo... got me wondering if i was reading this right, but guessing:

In the socket are the AMD EPYC 8004 CPUs that scale up to 64 cores using Xeon 4c cores, the same that are in “Bergamo“.

Should be "Zen 4c cores"....

 

[EasyRhino]

did i also see an extra power in plug on the motherboard?
looked like it was to plug in PCIe 6 pin to the board?

 

[reasonsandreasons]

Those been common on newer boards to let them meet the PCIe power spec for all their x16 slots (75W each).

 

[RolloZ170]

omg, they positioned the slots that way ? you can't even put one long GPU in.
the MS33-AR0 has two slots with room behind.

 

[NPS]

omg, they positioned the slots that way ? you can't even put one long GPU in.

I thought something along the same lines. I can only guess it's related to gen5 signal integrity and having more slots with gen5. Otherwise Gigabyte could have moved the socket more to the top and the m.2 down. These are only guesses and I must admit I am a little disappointed this topic was not really addressed in the article despite this section in the beginning:

The motherboard is going to look very different, but the size is EATX 12″ x 13″. That means it will integrate into many different chassis. If you are reading this, and doing a double-take on the motherboard, we will go through why it looks the way it does in this article.

 

[RolloZ170]

I thought something along the same lines. I can only guess it's related to gen5 signal integrity and having more slots with gen5

MS33-AR0 is C741 sapphire rapids, Gen5,DDR5.

 

[RolloZ170]

Otherwise Gigabyte could have moved the socket more to the top and the m.2 down

like on the MS33-AR0