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Guru3D.com » Review » ASRock TRX40 Creator review 4

ASRock TRX40 Creator review 4

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/24/2019 11:46 AM [ 15 comment(s) ]

Where all other TRX40 motherboards with the luxurious options sell at 800~1000 USD even, ASRock outs their TRX40 Creator, and the price is 499 USD. A heck of a lot of money, but features wise you still receive AX WOFO and 10 Gbps Ethernet. Worth it?

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nizzen
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Posts: 1894
Posted on: 12/24/2019 12:51 PM
Thnx for a nice review!

Happy christmas :)

Pictus
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Posts: 188
Posted on: 12/24/2019 05:20 PM
Thank you for the review and Merry Christmas!

Strange...
In the ASRock X570 series some models have Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt header, but the
more expensive TRX40 series does not... :eek:
If Thunderbolt is needed for Ryzen the ASRock x570 series is the way, but for
Threadripper GIGABYTE TRX40 series is the way...

Stairmand
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Posts: 315
Posted on: 12/24/2019 06:39 PM
My big complaint is with all those PCIe lanes I'd have liked 8 x 16x slots (even if they were only 8 x speed) I have a few companies that use 8 x GPUs for rendering so previously I used Asus X99-E WS boards. now would be a great time to upgrade them to Threadripper and 2080ti cards.

fry178
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Posts: 1814
Posted on: 12/24/2019 09:25 PM
@
Pictus

how many GB x570 boards have you used?
i usually dont get any GB stuff anymore, since the boards are usually one model lower than what i get from msi/asus/asrock for same price,
and on gpus they like to do v1.0 with nice binned chips and samsung ram, and after initial testing/reviews are done they switch to v1.1 with micron/hynix ram.
if not, it would mean they need to get their act together, as no other brand needed to "improve" their initial design (e.g. 1.0 -> 1.1) on every chip since 7xx series.

but after i swapped the msi gaming plus (180$) for the aorus ultra (300$), i remembered why i dont care for their components anymore.
even after clean install with latest 10 build (1909), i still experience sudden reboots (no shutdown before) and cold boots (especially after shutting down pc within the last few min),
when the same hw (except the board) has no issues on the gaming, and i can even run the ram i bought for the GB (3600-16),
incl the xmp profile, when the GB wont even post with it (no matter settings/voltage in bios).

Not saying their stuff is crap, but thats the first time in 10y that i had major issues with brand new hw,
and the 2nd time in 19y that i had to swap ram to get rig to post (on my personal rigs)

xrodney
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Posts: 356
Posted on: 12/24/2019 11:48 PM
@
Pictus

how many GB x570 boards have you used?
i usually dont get any GB stuff anymore, since the boards are usually one model lower than what i get from msi/asus/asrock for same price,
and on gpus they like to do v1.0 with nice binned chips and samsung ram, and after initial testing/reviews are done they switch to v1.1 with micron/hynix ram.
if not, it would mean they need to get their act together, as no other brand needed to "improve" their initial design (e.g. 1.0 -> 1.1) on every chip since 7xx series.

but after i swapped the msi gaming plus (180$) for the aorus ultra (300$), i remembered why i dont care for their components anymore.
even after clean install with latest 10 build (1909), i still experience sudden reboots (no shutdown before) and cold boots (especially after shutting down pc within the last few min),
when the same hw (except the board) has no issues on the gaming, and i can even run the ram i bought for the GB (3600-16),
incl the xmp profile, when the GB wont even post with it (no matter settings/voltage in bios).

Not saying their stuff is crap, but thats the first time in 10y that i had major issues with brand new hw,
and the 2nd time in 19y that i had to swap ram to get rig to post (on my personal rigs)
What CPU are you using ?

I am currently using 2950x on MSI MEG x399 creation and planning to swap soon to 3950x and Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master which is currently probably best x570 motherboard together with Hero from Asus.
It have best VRM including best heat-sink on it, best selection of functions, decent selection of ports on Rear IO and also as bonus half hidden TB Header.

I don't really care about wifi 6 as it can be added to any motherboard with M.2 wifi slot for about 13$ and also don't care much about 2.5/5/10gbe network as its easy to get dual 10gbe Intel x540-T2 enterprise server grade NIC for under $90.

As for issues you can get it with any brand motherboard.
I had plenty of issues with MSI boards (MSI MEG x399 Creation is 1st in long time that works just fine), I had issues with Asrock in past as well. Currently prefer Asus and Gigabyte and usually check in advance if there is some high amount of issues reported by users.

More or less you cant be 100% safe with any brand, its always question of specific model.

@Hilbert Hagedoorn , thx for review, just... I don't think motherboard price is main factor if you have $1350 as cheapest option for CPU.

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