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    In the end we're all plain jealous, of course....


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    I'm still waiting for the server options and Vega to be launched to see the whole ecosystem, but so far its really promising!

    Come on Vaughan, tell us how it went

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    Sorry. No time to build it yet, maybe this weekend.

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    AM4 Boards: the top-of-the-line compared

    Feature ASRock Fatal1ty X370
    Professional Gaming
    Asus ROG Crosshair VI Hero Biostar Racing X370GT7 Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370
    Gaming K7
    MSI X370 XPower
    Gaming Titanium
    M2 1x PCI-e 2.0 x4
    1x S600/Pcie3.0x4
    1x S600/Pcie3.0x4 1x S600/Pcie3.0x4 1x PCI-e 3.0 x4 1x S600/Pcie3.0x4
    U2 - - - Gen3, 32Gb/s Gen3, 32Gb/s
    SATA-600 10x 8x 6x 8x 6x
    SATA Express - - - 2x Gen3, 16Gb/s -
    USB 2.0 4x 6x 4x 4x 7x
    USB 3.1 10x USB 3.1 (Gen1, 5Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (Gen2, 10Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (TypeC, 10Gb/s)
    10x USB 3.1 (Gen1, 5Gb/s),
    2x USB 3.1 (Gen2, 10Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (TypeC, 10Gb/s)
    8x USB 3.1 (Gen1, 5Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (Gen2, 10Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (TypeC, 10Gb/s)
    10x USB 3.1 (Gen1, 5Gb/s),
    3x USB 3.1 (Gen2, 10Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (TypeC, 10Gb/s)
    8x USB 3.1 (Gen1, 5Gb/s),
    1x USB 3.1 (Gen2, 10Gb/s),
    2x USB 3.1 (TypeC, 5Gb/s)
    WiFi Yes - - - -
    Bluetooth 4.2 - - - -
    Video out - - DVI-D, HDMI 2.0 HDMI 1.4 DisplayPort, HDMI 2.0
    PS/2 1x - 1x 1x 1x
    NIC Intel I211AT
    Aquantia AQC108 (5Gb/s)
    Intel I211AT Realtek RTL8118AS Intel
    Killer E2500
    Intel I211AT
    Audio Realtek ALC1220 Realtek ALC1220 Realtek ALC1220 Realtek ALC1220 Realtek ALC1220
    Case Fan Headers 2x 4-pin
    1x 4-pin water pump
    3x 4-pin
    2x 4-pin water pump
    3x 4-pin 4x 4-pin
    2x 4-pin water pump
    4x 4-pin
    1x 4-pin water pump
    CPU Fan Headers 1x 4-pin
    1x 4-pin cpu opt/water pump
    2x 4-pin 2x 4-pin 2x 4-pin 1x 4-pin
    Power design 16-Phase 12-Phase 14-phase 10-Phase 10-Phase

    Each board has something to say for it. Asrock can boost about the beefiest power design, support for ECC RAM -in a gaming board?- and the onboard WiFi and Bluetooth. From a crunching point of view the 16-Phase is a minor virtue, as is the ECC RAM. Bluetooth and WiFi are nice-to-haves. Gamers will fall for the 5 Gb/s NIC. Asus can boost about the most software extra's, but you must be a WIndows User to be able to enjoy it. Biostar is the cheapest, but also the only one without fan headers with a higher amperage for water cooling. Gigabyte offers the best cooling and has as only one SATA Express, while MSI has the most expensive board of them all. And as with the Asus board, it comes with lots of extra's. Most of the boards are quite luxurious if fact, with the Biostar perhaps the least, as reflected in the price. Luckily for Biostar the Power Phase design is only second to that of the ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming and the Asrock X370 Taichi, the Asrock runner-up board that is still more expensive than the Biostar board.
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    I have to agree with Vaughan's perspective on this stuff as all I do is crunch, no audio, games, etc. Just crunch. :-) So will wait a while for the dust to settle and then see what's what. lol

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    I agree with you Brucifer, these high end motherboards have way too many bells and whistles that we don't need for pure crunching.
    Server boards that don't have any of those bells and whistles, and probably cost the same or less to manufacture per unit, are sold at much higher prices.

    Maybe someday automation processes get to a point where we can "3D print" our own motherboards just by selecting a few checkboxes like "Socket type", "number of RAM slots", "number of PCIe slots", etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brucifer View Post
    I have to agree with Vaughan's perspective on this stuff as all I do is crunch, no audio, games, etc. Just crunch.
    'Vaughan's perspective' has bought him the best cooling solution AM4 boards yet provide, with -as added feature- the whole shebang on bells and whistles.
    Name me one AM4 board feature the K7 Aorus does NOT have.


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    Finally we got the Ryzen 7 running. My son installed Linux on it as I wasn't going to fork out approx AUD265 for a copy of Win 10 Pro 64. What a price gouge!
    The Gigabyte motherboard was described by my son as "Typical rice". Over the top bling with glowing LEDs everywhere, next to the RAM sticks, all around the edges of the mobo. That with the red ring on the AMD cooler with its neat little AMD lettering and the whole thing is a light show. Fortunately you can turn off the mobo lightshow. Its all wasted as the box is sitting in a shelf rack so nobody can see the silly bling.

    In terms of performance - it is MUCH slower than the Xeons at LLR. At sieving, as expected, it is reasonable.

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    Are you using the F2 BIOS or the F3? The F3 has an update CPU AGESA 1004a


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    Now this was unexpected... Biostar launched a couple of Ryzen motherboards supposedly specific to cryptocoin mining...

    Biostar TA320-BTC (A320 chipset)
    Biostar TB350-BTC (B350 chipset)

    The interesting thing is that it has very few bells and whistles (yay!), and lots of PCIE x1 slots (I suppose with PCIe adapters from x16 to x1 one can plug in a bunch of GPUs?)
    These might be ideal for building cheap Ryzen crunchers.

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