I remember when X399 boards cost 300$ and had all the features one could want. Now that is the price of a solid B650E board.
The Gigabyte board appears to have “3 x M.2 Gen 5 M.2” whereas this seems to have just one Gen 5 M.2. https://asrock.com/MB/AMD/TRX50%20WS/index.asp
Of course one of the advantages of Threadripper is all the lanes and it would be great to use them to get some insanely fast M.2 Raid action going. With the ASRock board, you’ll need to get a separate card to do that with PCIe 5 drives.
If the TRX40 and WRX80 boards are any indication, they’ll all come with a 4x m.2 pcie card anyway.
The ASUS WRX90 board was just announced and that has onboard 4 x M.2 PCIe Gen5. So I am guessing the ASUS WRX board may not.
ASUS is highlighting that as one of the differences between the TRX and WRX boards. And the active cooling the WRX board has for it on board.
https://press.asus.com/news/asus-announces-pro-ws-wrx90e-sage-se-pro-ws-trx50-sage-wifi/
I can hear the lil 50mm (or 40mm?) fans whining in the case.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Just like 5x0 series chipset fan, it only ramps up when it’s needed. And i’m 99% sure you can tweak it’s fan profile too.
Fans are needed, if your going to watercool your CPU and thus no airflow is over the board.
Why? What’s preventing us from installing quiet 140 mm fans?
up to five fans
Slapped onto a slab of aluminium with barely any surface area advantage over solid block. Ffs.
Is this a sign that they’re going to start selling thread, rippers directly to consumers again or is this just focused on system integrators?
You dont visit here often do you?