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http://techreport.com/news/30674/amd-am4-based-system-spotted-in-the-wild
Skylake seemed to be bottlenecked by 2133 DDR4. I love how almost no one seems to mention the latency when talking about DDR4.
However,
The article has a pic of the motherboard.
the evocatively-named HP 510-P127C Pavilion desktop computer based on the HP "Willow" motherboard.
The HP Willow microATX motherboard is built around AMD's Promontory Fusion Controller Hub, bringing with it support for PCIe 3.0 and DDR4 memory. HP's motherboard support page details support for Bristol Ridge A8-9600, A10-9700, and A12-9800 APUs, all of which are quad-core 28-nm chips with 65W TDP. Some future Summit Ridge CPUs have TDPs up to 95W, though this board appears to be limited to 65W units.
The board offers a single PCIe x16 slot and and A-keyed M.2 slot, which seems to imply support for PCIe x2 SSDs. DDR4 memory as fast as 2133 MT/s is supported in configurations up to 16GB spread across two slots. The Willow motherboard is suspiciously lacking USB 3.1 ports, Type-C or otherwise.
The specific PC available at Costco includes a 1TB magnetic hard disk, 16GB of DDR4 memory at an unspecified clock speed, a top-of-the-line A12-9800 APU, an 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter, and a DVD recorder for just under $600.
Skylake seemed to be bottlenecked by 2133 DDR4. I love how almost no one seems to mention the latency when talking about DDR4.

However,
Hruska said:The various caches on the CPU are designed to provide fast memory accesses and to limit the need to tap main memory in the first place. Meanwhile, bringing the memory controller on-die (as both AMD and Intel have done) slashed latency compared to previous systems. This diminishes the impact of reducing latency on the DRAM itself.
The end result of all these improvements is that DRAM clock rates rarely matter to desktop applications past a certain point. Additional layers of cache and sophisticated algorithms have blunted the impact of memory speed in the vast majority of cases.
The article has a pic of the motherboard.