Asrock X399 Professional Gaming TR4 ATX

HoneyBadger · 3 Jul 2018 at 17:37

Looking as designing a new system based on the AMD Threadripper chip. I prefer Asrock boards so this one seems like an upgraded, AMD version of my Z270 Supercarrier.

Does anyone have it? How are you getting on with it? Any issues?

Undesirable · 4 Jul 2018 at 17:43

They're not releasing too many BIOS updates for this board. Only one beta since Christmas and there's not too much difference. I would have bought the ASUS, but it's E-ATX. People are also reporting issues with the 10Gbps LAN, and I don't get much use out of it anyway, and it's one of the main features compared with the non-Fata1ity Taichi.

8 Pack · 5 Jul 2018 at 13:45

Taichi is working fine. This I did not try.

HoneyBadger · 8 Jul 2018 at 17:45

8 Pack said:
Taichi is working fine. This I did not try.

Undesirable said:
They're not releasing too many BIOS updates for this board. Only one beta since Christmas and there's not too much difference. I would have bought the ASUS, but it's E-ATX. People are also reporting issues with the 10Gbps LAN, and I don't get much use out of it anyway, and it's one of the main features compared with the non-Fata1ity Taichi.

Thanks guys.

Forgive the silly question:

If I buy an AMD TR4 socket board, will the new Thread Ripper 2 chips also work in it?

8 Pack · 8 Jul 2018 at 17:51

HoneyBadger · 8 Jul 2018 at 17:53

8 Pack said:
Yes

Cheers!

Undesirable · 8 Jul 2018 at 19:08

HoneyBadger said:
Cheers!

The 32 core won't overclock too far, if at all, as the VRMs dont quite cut it.

8 Pack · 8 Jul 2018 at 19:13

Did u try a 32 core??

HoneyBadger · 8 Jul 2018 at 19:57

Undesirable said:
The 32 core won't overclock too far, if at all, as the VRMs dont quite cut it.

That's fine, I won't be looking to OC at all - This will essentially be used as a server, running VM's mostly as well as a few other duties. It'll be going into a RACK PC case. It'll be replacing my DELL PE 2950's which are now quite old and costly to run. I've been running a few VM's on the system in my sig, which it does fine but you can tell it was designed purely for gaming.

HoneyBadger · 8 Jul 2018 at 20:28

I’ll also water cool it

Undesirable · 8 Jul 2018 at 23:47

Might be best to go monoblock. Never tried it myself but obviously it covers the VRM section of the motherboard which may even be half necessary for the 32 core version. I mean, you can have a really nice CPU temp, but if the VRMs are constantly stressed from heat on an expensive motherboard then you haven't really gained much.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-water-block-ek-fb-asrock-x399-rgb-monoblock-nickel-wc-9kg-ek.html