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That gigabyte looks VERY nice!
Gaming 7 made my eyes hurt . when your about to clock off work and boss wants the finished design but you havent started and have 10 mins left to spare... haha
nod to asus zenith for IR design- but thinking the extra cooling kit will hurt potential new sales - could have easily rolled out a Zenith Formula board to phase out the Zenith version and get some hype etc
MSI turns most heads as their board has had the most extensive upgrade
Stupid lights aside I think it looks decent. Nice beefy vrm cooling.
Tons of decent other things on there too like a DAC etc
just found video of the cooling design- rear plate as a heatsink pretty much
If I had a need for a TR then this would be the board for me I think. Bet its a heavy mofo though....
TR needs quad channel otherwise performance tanks.
Yup, 2950x looks like the real sweet spot.
I mainly game, but some times I have heavy VM duties for work (technical PoCs) that my Surface clearly can't handle, so this would be nice to fall back on to for those short periods.
Know nothing about this platform so mobo and ram recommendations welcome.
I have a sound blaster ae-5, so would like a mobo that focuses elsewhere as won't need any onboard sound.
Also what RAM kits?
But if you have other workloads that can stress the many threads and VR is more of an afterthought, then it probably won't be a bad buy.
For those using air coolers, I queried with Noctua if the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 is rated for use with the 2990WX - they have stated 'it handles this CPU just fine'.
It should do seeing as it copes ok with 1920/1950x cpus when overclocked which pull very similar amounts of power to a stock 2990WX. I know my 1920x pulls around 240W when overclocked to 4GHz on all cores at 1.325V. I have my doubts about them coping quite so well with over 300W.For those using air coolers, I queried with Noctua if the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 is rated for use with the 2990WX - they have stated 'it handles this CPU just fine'.
For those using air coolers, I queried with Noctua if the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 is rated for use with the 2990WX - they have stated 'it handles this CPU just fine'.