ASUS Malaysia announces local pricing for ROG Zenith II Extreme and ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming
If you are checking out motherboards to pair with the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors, well, look no further. ASUS’ ROG Zenith II Extreme and ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming are now here in Malaysia priced from RM2499.
Both boards feature a 16 powerstages cooled by a rather substantial heatsink with two semi-passive fans that only turn on when temperatures hit above 60°C, allowing silent operation under low load scenarios and well-controlled thermals when you are crunching heavy workloads.
Both motherboards also offer a LiveDash OLED display on the I/O shroud. While the first ROG Zenith Extreme and several other high-end ROG boards has already offered it, this is the first time a ROG Strix board touts the LiveDash OLED panel. Of course, the ROG Zenith II Extreme takes it a step even further with a color display instead of the ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming’s monochrome one.
ROG AMD TRX40 Motherboards
| ROG Zenith II Extrme | ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming | |
| Form factor | E-ATX | ATX |
| RAM Support | 8 x 32GB (256GB DDR4) | 8 x 32GB (256GB DDR4) |
| Multi-GPU support | 4 x PCIe 4.0 x16, 3-way SLI/CrossFireX | 3 x PCIe 4.0 x16, 2-way SLI/CrossFireX |
| Storage | 2 x M.2 22110 (PCIe 4.0 / SATA) 3 x M.2 2280 (PCIe 4.0 only) 8 x SATA 6 Gbps | 1 x M.2 22110 (PCIe 4.0 / SATA) 2 x M.2 22110 (PCIe 4.0 only) 8 x SATA 6 Gbps |
| Connectivity | 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (10 Gbps) Type-C 6 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (10 Gbps) 8 x USB 3.0 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (10 Gbps) headers 1 x Aquantia 10GbE 1 x Intel Gigabit Ethernet 1 x Intel WiFi 6 AX200 | 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) Type-C 7 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) 4 x USB 3.0 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (10 Gbps) headers 1 x Realtek 2.5GbE 1 x Intel Gigabit Ethernet 1 x Intel WiFi 6 AX200 |
| Audio | SupremeFX S1220 | SupremeFX S1220 |
| LiveDash OLED | 1.77″ colored | 1.3″ monochrome |
| Price | RM3299 | RM2499 |
Both the ROG Zenith II Extreme and ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming come with 3+1 year warranties.
Pokdepinion: Well, the new TRX40 boards sure aren’t affordable.
