It’s a pretty cool board for the money yes.
I agree that i would have liked to see an intel 1Gb nic,
instead of the realtek one.
But other then that for the price it’s a really nice board.
It is actually the cheapest board to get that offers 10Gb/e.
Of course it is a little bit down on usb connectivity and m.2´s.
However you can easaly put in a pci-e addin card for m.2’s.
Which is what more boards are offering in higher price classes.
So i personally don’t consider that being a con for the Asrock TRX40 Creator.
I mean the price is low, so not much to complain right?
Now about the vrm concerns.
There are a few people that have some concerns about it like Buildzoid for example.
And i partially agree with him about his point of view.
Because it basically is just an 8 phase vrm on a small surface area.
But it´s still a pretty powerfull vrm doe.
And the massive heatsink definitely helps with keeping it cool.
Hardware unboxed also did some tests with this particular board,
and pretty much found a similar result that wendell stumbled on.
Sure this board will be on the bottom of the barrel when it comes to vrm thermal performance.
I mean that´s not rocket science.
however the numbers that hardware unboxed showed in their video,
where no where near concerning to me personally.
Now the thing that i partially agree with Buildzoid on,
is that the vrm might be a concern when overclocking.
And i also think that for the 64 core it might also be a concern,
like @wendell pointed out
However lets be honnest how great does 3970X actually overclock?
I mean non of the Threadripper cpu´s have really much overclock headroom in them atm.
So yeah you could argue that the vrm on this board would be really a concern.
Except for the 64 core maybe.
Also the only thing i don´t really understand,
is why did Arock decide to not put the 10Gb/e Aquantia nic,
on the Taichi board?
I mean that is trully an odd decision there,
because that would actually be a better selling point for the board,
when it did feature a intel lan and a 10Gb Aquantia.
Because currently the Taichi kinda misses a bit of a selling point really in my opinion.
I mean it doesn´t particulary have an appealing io and pci-e slot layout.
So yeah idk what Asrock was actually thinking with the TRX40 Taichi?
Waking up an older thread… But didn’t find more appropriate place to ask.
I finally got this board for work compute machine
Seems like this should have nuvoton chip for fans/temperatures… I’m not sure why lmsensors isn’t picking it up. I expected at least some temperature/fanspeed/power measurements…
Config: Ubuntu 20.04, fully updated (HW is fully loaded with 3990, 256GB & 2x3090; so far it’s surviving testing)
I have “acpi_enforce_resources=lax” in grub cmd, i’m also loading lm75. lm83, nct6683 modules (detected by sensors-detect) but i’m still not getting anything (csm disabled in uefi if that changes anything)…
