On Tuesday 25 August 2020, E. Liddell wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:54:13 -0400 > > "BorgLabs - Kate Draven" <borglabs4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Collective > > > > As I said previously, I'm rebuilding my primary computer. > > I've contacted several board makers and only gigabyte replied so far. > > Below is their offerings for threadripper cpus. I'd like opinions and > > why. > > > > https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/AMD-TRX40 > > > > Thanks to all in advance, > > I have a Threadripper 1900X (that's the early, low-end 8-core/16-thread > offering that they dropped for later generations) and an ASUS Prime X399-A > motherboard. That's a TR4 socket board, so if you're buying a 3rd > generation Threadripper, you don't want that exact board—you'll need a TRX4 > socket instead. I've never worked with Gigabyte boards specifically, so I > can't comment on their build quality. ASUS sometimes has better reviews, > but the difference seems small. > > Even low-end Threadripper boards should be fairly well tricked out (in both > useful and non-useful ways—I didn't really *want* those RGB LEDs . . .). > The first thing I would consider is how many M.2/NVMe and SATA slots you > need, and how many PCIe add-on board slots, because there's sometimes a > tradeoff there. I notice that Gigabyte's site doesn't tell you how many > plain SATA drives the boards accommodate (newegg gives 8xSATA for the > Gigabyte Aorus Master). > > The second thing I'd look at is how many of which kind of onboard USB > headers the board has (2.0 VS 3 VS 3 with USB-C), and how many you need, > keeping in mind that each header may support multiple ports. > > The Gigabyte boards have built in WLAN—is this a feature you want? > Otherwise they seem superficially similar to my non-WLAN ASUS board, with > Realtek hi-def audio and Intel LAN chipsets . . . but there's one more > thing you need to be careful of. While I'm not sure it's still true in this > generation, many early Threadripper boards like mine use specific variants > of the it87 sensor chip that are only supported under Linux by an > unmaintained out-of-tree kernel driver that has to be specially loaded to > suppress an ACPI conflict. Without a working driver for that chip, you > can't get fan information. It's possible that doesn't matter to you, of > course. > > Overall, my Threadripper's always run cool (~30C is typical, ~60C if I'm > compiling OpenOffice or something, and I've never seen it break 70C). > That's in a large, moderately well-ventilated case with an unexceptional > CPU fan. > > Hope that helps in some way. > > E. Liddell > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Liddell, adding to the database. Kate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
