This is the only video I could find of his on the new Threadripper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ll6bXzlHvU

He doesn’t really talk about the motherboard lineup though.

Hopefully, he’ll do a video soon.

The TRX50 options:

• Gigabyte: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/TRX50-AERO-D#kf
• ASRock: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/TRX50%20WS/index.us.asp
• Asus: https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/workstation/pro-ws-trx50-sage-wifi/
• Super Micro: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13sra-tf

One week from launch, there are still no pages that I could find for the WRX90 versions.

And still no price information for anything. Have other Threadripper launches been this way?

My choice seems to be either Asus or ASRock. The choice would be easy for ASRock if it weren’t for all those smaller fans which I worry will be loud. I wonder how much ASRock’s BIOS will let me control them to keep them quiet. I am not familiar with their BIOS and software quality as I’ve gone MSI or Gigabyte for my last few builds.

How many people are going to have trouble considering that ASRock board because of all those little fans?

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/

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.