FYI They do not physically have the boards and are just looking at product pages.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
0 points (50.0% liked)
Hardware
33 readers
1 users here now
A place for quality hardware news, reviews, and intelligent discussion.
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
I'm surprised buildzoid wasn't there.
If you are a professional, I'd urge people not to buy the ASUS variant.
I currently use the threadripper pro 3955WX, and I went with the ASUS sage WRX80 board. It was great, until the ipmi failed.
I RMA'd it, where they claimed there was damage to the board that didn't match the photos I took before I sent it.
They then shipped it back via fedex, without signature and it got stolen.
I didn't get an insurance payout because there was no signature required and ASUS never gave me the option. I lost one of my first professional video editing clients because of ASUS. I use the Asrock board now and it's better plus it has TB4.
It's sad to see where ASUS is right now, they used to be fairly solid and dependable.
How can anyone take asrock seriously with that website?
Actually, I think I saw that board on ebay som time ago ^^
Failure rates of pc parts seem unreasonably high for the money we spend. My last build required the GPU and MB to be RMA'd and I just had a two month old NVMe drive die. Further, there doesn't seem to be any data on which parts fail the least/most.
This doesn't look very intersting like, TRX50 just looks like it exists to "get threadripper" without cutting into WRX90 features too much and isn't Zen5 round the corner anyway..?
THIS VIDEO BROUGHT TO YOU BY....
I'll take that over Linus crappy ads about his LTT store.
How many people are going to have trouble considering that ASRock board because of all those little fans?
That's not fair, I'm sure it has its big fans as well.
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.
What an utter disaster of a Threadripper 7000 launch!
Compare the shocking absence of motherboards for TRX50 with those seen at the launch of TRX40, 4 years ago! Where are the feature-laden boards? No Zenith II Extreme, no Aurus etc etc etc. EVERY TRX50 (and there's almost none!) has had so many features ripped out. The back panels of TRX40 vs TRX40 says it all. No wonder MSI saw this disaster coming and pulled out.
TRX40 stands head and shoulders above any of this crap. We now know the real reason AMD broke that infamous TRX40 "long term support promise" killed it off after one(!!!) CPU release - they wanted to dilute all that functionality into 'pro' and 'non-pro' - BUT - they ended up with TRX50 motherboards that not even The Braindead would touch.
--> If AMD didn't think they killed off their entire non-pro HEDT userbase then, they damn well know they did now!