Wrx80 threadripper pro motherboards

[anton-sa]

So, as the title suggests, which is the “mother” of all motherboards wrx80

Asus sage wrx80
Gigabyte wrx80
ASRock creator wrx80
Msi ws wrx80
Supermicro wrx80

Have I missed any threadripper pro boards ?

So which one is best ? In best category 1 let’s say the main objective will be to wring every once of performance out of e.g a 5975x…

In best category 2, let’s say rock solid reliability … Things that promote solid as rock reliability

Cat 3, cool features

Cat 4, track record

Cat 5, bios updates are there a ton of updates form the board ? It so is it because a-issues being fixed or b-active development , some boards(generalising here ) with few bios updates are so because everything "just works "…

About to purchase a board and CPU in coming months ,I’m leaning toward the Asus ,however I’m wondering are they going to add some tuning features (pbo) in coming bios updates ?

Thoughts ?

[Bagaget]

@wendell , hardware unboxed and ian recently had videos about tr5000 pro:

Asus wont do PBO2 on current sage.
Asrock is doing something funky with io-die power reporting seemingly not being included in PPT leading to more power for the cores.
MSI should support PBO2 but HUs pre-production sample (?) couldn’t get it to work.
SM M12SWA-TF is… very server-ish.
Can’t remember anything about GB

Havn’t had time to watch the live stream yet but… Threadripper 5000 Launch - Live Chat, and Live Systems - YouTube

[anton-sa]

@anon12253282
Why so grumpy ? Hungry ? Need coffee ? Lol

Apologies for the format of my message typed it on my phone ,when I’m at my PC tomorrow I’ll copy paste the right model numbers .

I’m totally aware I can to to all the websites and check the manuals and amount of bios updates … Will be doing this .

Was just hoping it some real world feedback .

So my own personal requirements are basically :

The best soundcard ,but not a biggy as I have a Asus raid Strix dlx incase …

Dual 10gb NICs… Great but also not a deal breaker I have plenty dual 10gbs cards in stock here .

Good solid USB 3.2 is nice …

I was originally intending epyc build …similiar to my xeon e5 build … but you end up needing a card for everything haha

[anton-sa]

Thanks for the constructive reply … I’ll check out the link you posted.

My first choice is and was and is and was haha the sage from Asus … But…

Wendells video where he compares the Puget systems sage build to his ASRock creator kinda got me thinking and or digging a bit …

My cooling system will be way overkill
3 x 360rads. 2 of 360x60 and 1 x 360x30
My a4000 Nvidia will have waterblock also

So I guess my cooling system can take the board running a bit “hot”…

Power wise running corsair ax1600i so that’s done and dusted power wise .

I’m not a typical gamer and I’m not into bling bling overclocking as I mentioned just want to “wring” every bit of my 100usd per core purchase

[anton-sa]

Thanks man appreciate your feedback

[GigaBusterEXE]

Out of the 2 I’ve used, the sage and the ASRock creator

I would pick the creator

i set PBO to advanced, unlocked the power limit, set a negative voltage curve with a value of 30(the max) and set +200mhz

The sage did not have any kind of PBO settings at the time

With just the pbo and +200 it was 510w in cinebench r23
With the negative offset it lowered the power draw by 100w

Depending on your cooling you may want to use stock power limits or set custom ones in combination with a negative voltage curve

400w it’s kinda hard to cool without a big ass custom loop

As long as you can keep it cool you don’t have to worry about it being unstable

In my book even if you don’t overclock, the negative voltage offset will let you get away with lot less cooling or keep it quieter