For the elite ROG Zenith line, Asus engineers design specialized motherboards to work in tandem with Ryzen Threadripper. These are expensive and terribly fancy motherboards based on AMD TRX40 and AMD X399 chipsets with a powerful power subsystem, integrated cooling of the board and an impressive number of slots for installing memory strips, video cards and drives.

The model range of the ROG Zenith series looks heterogeneous, so a small digression is needed. As you may have heard, initially ROG was a single line of products for overclockers. Then there were too many products, and Asus marketers began to divide them into separate baskets. Actually, this is how the HEDT series of ROG Zenith mothers appeared. And so that life does not seem like raspberries, they were again divided into 2 groups ― "ordinary" ROG Zenith Extreme and tuned ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha.


An illustrative example of the first type is the original ROG Zenith Extreme model, which was released at the end of 2017, but is still in demand among buyers. By the standards of classic overclocker boards, it stands out due to the built-in OLED display for displaying system information, the AREION network card with a bandwidth of 10 Gbit/s and the built-in Wi-Fi receiver with WiGig. In addition, ROG Zenith Extreme boasts numerous interfaces — almost three dozen devices can be connected to it.

As for the ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha team, its most prominent representative is Zenith II Extreme Alpha, which was released in the spring of 2020. Compared to the usual ROG Zenith Extreme model, power modules have been seriously strengthened, the power system capabilities have been expanded, the cooling of power circuits has been completely redesigned (even heat pipes have appeared) and PCI-E 4 bus support has been added. Plus, the network controller has become dual, and the Wi-Fi module can work in wireless networks of the sixth generation.