Yep, different board diagram. I was absolutely certain we’re talking about the ASUS board. Too many threads to keep tabs on… 
Maybe we were, but I don’t see any MCIO on the ASsUS board, only SlimSAS:
I’d be very surprised if they used chipset for MCIO, I assumed they stick to “Gen 4 = SlimSAS”, “Gen 5 = MCIO” principle.
I think booth boards are with regard to connection options quite plentiful.
The Asrock seams in fact quite a bit better, except for the m.2 situation, but as mentioned already 1 fast m.2 for the OS drive is enough and the rest of the storage would go into a PCIe x16 adapter anyways for easy physical access.
It seams that if I’m not mistaken the Asrock allows for 16 SATA connections in total 4 Chipset and 12 more on the MCIO and SlimSAS ports, that is nice.
While Asus allows only for 4 on the Chipset ant that’s it.
What I like about the Asus is that non of the USB’s goes directly to the CPU, but through this REDRIVER IC’s that makes me feal safer about the 4k€ CPU that will live in there. Or do you think the Asrock will have some decoupling as well its just not shown?
An other plus for the Asrock would be that the IPMI there has a HDMI port instead of a Analog VGA as ASUS added.
I think the only really relevant question here is about the reliability of these boards how good are they?
And an other worry some ware someone mentioned that with this board class for the previous generation there were a few revisions released in quick succession, so you think here this may also be the case and early boards may be buggy?
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Did someone test if the ASUS WRX90 board does actually only support 4 SATA devices?
I’m asking because the english manual has this section on page 1-13:
“The SlimSAS port allows you to connect NVMe storage devices, and can support up to 4 SATA devices using a transfer cable.”
But it’s never mentioned in the BIOS manual or spec page.
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I do CAD drafting for living and I’m using Threadripper 2950X with RTX2080. It still works great and I’ll be probably using it for couple more years. My CAD software is installed on RAM disk and I also store working model on RAM disk so read/write access is extremely fast.
If you are going to have 512Gb for RAM then RAM disk might be worth considering.
Talking about the GPU the what do you think about the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16G Ventus 2X OC, 16GB GDDR6X, HDMI, 3x DP
its super compact, but how is the noice level?
Do you think the cooling is underpowered?
Also if I od to get a bigger card mechanically I would go for a RTX 4080 SUPER
@wendell would you pelase be so kind and test if the slimSAS connectors on the asus board support SATA
I think wrx90 is pcie only, actually
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is it safe to test or could something break?
Well the end of the storry if anyone is interested in it became the asus board, the other one is not yet available anyware in europe, LOL
Also I like the text based bios of ASUS more than the “modern” one of the asrock,
also the asrock seams to lack options to configure secure boot keys, and I only trust my own keys, I sign my own bootloader with.
Since the mainboard stayts something different could you please be so kind to test this?
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