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Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Xtreme review
Posted by: on: 11/26/2019 10:21 AM [
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With all that mega-core galore on the Threadripper 3000 processor releases, a new baby chipset has been born, T-Rex, aka TRX40. In this review we check out the loaded TRX40 Aorus Xtreme from Gigabyte.
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Undying
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 11:06 AM
Nice board but that pricing though...
Nice board but that pricing though...
DeskStar
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 01:00 PM
You get what you pay for.
I'd say gigabyte has made a complete 180 these days. Always been an Asus purchaser myself.
Loving my Xtreme 570 Aorus.
Nice board but that pricing though...
You get what you pay for.
I'd say gigabyte has made a complete 180 these days. Always been an Asus purchaser myself.
Loving my Xtreme 570 Aorus.
DeskStar
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 01:02 PM
Loving the review as always @Hilbert Hagedoorn .
Man those numbers on the memory throughput!.!.!! WHOLLY WOWO!?!?!
I will be upgrading in a few years once again and the future is soooooo looking bright!.!.! "Going to have to find them shades baby....!!"
Loving the review as always @Hilbert Hagedoorn .
Man those numbers on the memory throughput!.!.!! WHOLLY WOWO!?!?!
I will be upgrading in a few years once again and the future is soooooo looking bright!.!.! "Going to have to find them shades baby....!!"
Loophole35
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 01:35 PM
It's a halo product. What do you expect?
Nice board but that pricing though...
It's a halo product. What do you expect?
Undying
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 01:42 PM
As HH mentioned in his review trx40 boards can be found at 400$ range. This is just too much.
It's a halo product. What do you expect?
As HH mentioned in his review trx40 boards can be found at 400$ range. This is just too much.
Loophole35
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 02:23 PM
This board like the Asus Zenith is a halo product. Like a "Kingpin" GTX/RTX card. Remember there are $700 Z390's and X570"s out there too when most of those boards are priced $200-300.
As HH mentioned in his review trx40 boards can be found at 400$ range. This is just too much.
This board like the Asus Zenith is a halo product. Like a "Kingpin" GTX/RTX card. Remember there are $700 Z390's and X570"s out there too when most of those boards are priced $200-300.
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 03:51 PM
The 32core is not to much? :p
It depends on what features you "need"
2x intel 10Gbit lan isn't cheap.
I bought x399 with 10Gbit lan a few years ago because I have 10GB lan. Asrock x399 pro works like a champ, and crunching F@h all day long
As HH mentioned in his review trx40 boards can be found at 400$ range. This is just too much.
The 32core is not to much? :p
It depends on what features you "need"
2x intel 10Gbit lan isn't cheap.
I bought x399 with 10Gbit lan a few years ago because I have 10GB lan. Asrock x399 pro works like a champ, and crunching F@h all day long
kakiharaFRS
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 03:55 PM
considered this but dislike
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- the usual awful nvme emplacements (between pcie slots is really bad for heat and remember this is a pcie 4.0 motherboard those nvme are going to get hot)
- m2.c doesn't only disable two satas this time but 4 (a new record) sata 4,5,6,7 go down with an nvme drive
- two satas are asmedia as explained in another thread on my z390 they have HDD slow random read on high end SSDs and on goggle I found lots of complaints, those are the sata 8,9 which means that 6 ports are "compromised"
on the X570 plateform I agree that it was overpriced as there were fine MB for less
but from what I've seen on the TRX40 motherboards even at 500$ look really cheap, there's no magical super cheaper pcie 4.0 boards, they cut heavily on costs to reach those 400-500, you pay 500 but what you get wouldnt be worth 150 on an older chipset if you get what I mean
after comparing all the TRX40 I ordered a msi creator which is around 235$ more than the asrock creator but really who wants to put a 1.5-2k cpu on this ?
https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/TRX40%20Creator/index.asp (yes it has a top fan)
not me
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Creator-TRX40/Overview
price diff isn't much compared to the whole computer price we're talking 5k+ here I won't go into details but the way the msi is designed is way better it's not only looks, you also get a 4x nvme pcie card with the msi that you can raid (will need to win at the lottery for that)
p.s.
I'm curious to see if the Corsair-G.Skill gap is still there on my Z390 G.Skill performs massively better than Corsair (got 2 different models same thing) at the exact same (tweaked for comparison) Mhz and timings
good to know it's "only 400watts" with a 2080ti my 9900k+1080ti currently draw around 500watts lol (including 35watts of rgb not joking)
considered this but dislike
-
nevermind it's an XL-ATX not an E-ATX so the 90° connectors are a great feature
- the usual awful nvme emplacements (between pcie slots is really bad for heat and remember this is a pcie 4.0 motherboard those nvme are going to get hot)
- m2.c doesn't only disable two satas this time but 4 (a new record) sata 4,5,6,7 go down with an nvme drive
- two satas are asmedia as explained in another thread on my z390 they have HDD slow random read on high end SSDs and on goggle I found lots of complaints, those are the sata 8,9 which means that 6 ports are "compromised"
on the X570 plateform I agree that it was overpriced as there were fine MB for less
but from what I've seen on the TRX40 motherboards even at 500$ look really cheap, there's no magical super cheaper pcie 4.0 boards, they cut heavily on costs to reach those 400-500, you pay 500 but what you get wouldnt be worth 150 on an older chipset if you get what I mean
after comparing all the TRX40 I ordered a msi creator which is around 235$ more than the asrock creator but really who wants to put a 1.5-2k cpu on this ?
https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/TRX40%20Creator/index.asp (yes it has a top fan)
not me
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Creator-TRX40/Overview
price diff isn't much compared to the whole computer price we're talking 5k+ here I won't go into details but the way the msi is designed is way better it's not only looks, you also get a 4x nvme pcie card with the msi that you can raid (will need to win at the lottery for that)
p.s.
I'm curious to see if the Corsair-G.Skill gap is still there on my Z390 G.Skill performs massively better than Corsair (got 2 different models same thing) at the exact same (tweaked for comparison) Mhz and timings
good to know it's "only 400watts" with a 2080ti my 9900k+1080ti currently draw around 500watts lol (including 35watts of rgb not joking)
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Posted on: 11/26/2019 05:29 PM
Agree its very clean board, features of board are not bad, but come on guys(Asus or ASRock) release board with 7*PCI_E slots and 10*SATA ports and I'm happy guy, something like X299 Sage 10G would be perfect
Gigabyte boards lately really looks good
Thanks, Jura
Agree its very clean board, features of board are not bad, but come on guys(Asus or ASRock) release board with 7*PCI_E slots and 10*SATA ports and I'm happy guy, something like X299 Sage 10G would be perfect
Gigabyte boards lately really looks good
Thanks, Jura
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Nice review!
This must be the most clean board ever