Which Threadripper motherboard?

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Hi, I'm trying to decide on a TR motherboard in the ~£350 price range. All seem decent and as such I don't mind any of the brands on offer. I intend to use the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 which appears to overlap with pcie slot 1 and the first ram slot....but that doesn't appear to be a blocker.

Could anyone offer any thoughts on which to go for from ocuk.....thanks.
 
I've only read good things about the Gaming 7 but the Taichi also seems pretty great. It seems the TR platform didn't really get a duff particularly. The choice seems much less though.
 
I went with the gigabyte gaming 7 board and thus far, it's been great. I had my doubts about the killer NIC but the standard driver installed by windows with none of the software has been equally as good as any intel NIC I've used previously. It's not too bad for overclocking. I've only briefly tested it as my psu is quite old and only has one EPS power cable, but 4GHz seemed easy enough to achieve with my 1920x. Memory overclocking with 8 pack teamgroup 3200C14 ram has been very smooth, working with XMP out of the box, once I installed windows fresh. I've pushed the timings quite a bit and had no trouble with cold boot issues even when I've pushed slightly too far.

The slight oddities\annoyances:
1. Any overclocking causes the voltage to stay at the set amount even if the clocking down feature still works when using P state overclocks
2. The voltage at stock seems to bounce around above the set amount when the cpu is lightly loaded. (Due to XFR as far as I can tell) Using negative offset doesn't seem to have much effect.
3. The intel wifi card causes a bluescreen with the standard windows 10 driver after intalling. (well documented and easily fixed)
 
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I have the Asus X399-A Prime with that cooler, no issues with clearance of first PCIE slot or the RAM (and you can adjust the mounting on the cooler by upto 6mm if you want to get it further from your GPU).

I have 2 fans on on the Noctua and 8 dimms installed with 2 Corsair Airflow fans so I think the layout is pretty good if your into air cooling.

One of the M2 slots is a vertical type too which I think is a better solution than being between the PCIE slots IMO.
 
Thanks for the responses, in the end went for the Aurous Gaming 7, the prime was just too much. Really pleased with the system which is now running at 4Ghz, but unfortunately one of my ram sticks is faulty (from a Gskill Trident Z 3200 kit) so not been able to take advantage of the quad channel performance. I'm currently running just the one fan on the Noctua but that is going to change as I'll remove one off my other X99 cooler.....I have to say that the packaging on the processor was just quality, really felt a quality premium product you were opening....heh well I guess it should be considering the price.
 
That new gigabyte board looks extremely good to me for the price, and I'm normally not a fan of the blingy boards at all, but they've definitely got that one looking nice and clean - only gotcha: no U2 port :/
 
BongoHunter said:
I have the Asus X399-A Prime with that cooler, no issues with clearance of first PCIE slot or the RAM (and you can adjust the mounting on the cooler by upto 6mm if you want to get it further from your GPU).

I have 2 fans on on the Noctua and 8 dimms installed with 2 Corsair Airflow fans so I think the layout is pretty good if your into air cooling.

One of the M2 slots is a vertical type too which I think is a better solution than being between the PCIE slots IMO.
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Bongo do you OC at all? Manual voltage or Auto?
 
Methanoid said:
Bongo do you OC at all? Manual voltage or Auto?
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Auto voltage, base clock at 3.8, boost goes to 4.2
Memory at 2800 c14 (auto in BIOS)

Edit - corrected memory clock - I had some instability at 3000c14 when manually set (I think its because I have 8 dimms)
 
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