I checked out the Creator, I didn’t like that there are two slots that were made x8, instead of the single x8 on other boards. Also it only has one U.2 connection whereas others have 3.
Saw a video review of the Sage and it seemed a bit quirky.
The Gigabyte MC62-G40 is still a contender, but the L1T review of it mentioned that it doesn’t have a separate aux power for the PCIe slots and running multiple video cards, which I plan to do, will not work. Since I looked at a lot of WRX80 boards, they all look very similar to each other, and in a different board’s manual one of the 8pin connectors was labeled at PCIe power. Not sure how I could find out more. Also in another thread someone said their board died, and since I’d be getting these off ebay as pre-owned, it’s a bit risky.
The Gigabyte WRX80 SU8 IPMI is the main contender right now. This one does say in the manual that one of the 8pin aux is ATX 12V GPU power connector. I’m hopeful it means what I think it means.
The ASRock WRX80D8-2T is interesting because all the x16 slots look like full x16 as per the spec page and manual. But those OcuLink connectors I never seen used for storage an I’d rather not buy cables for it. And I have no use for 12 SATA ports.