The platform of choice for 'heavy' AMD crunchers at this moment is the Ryzen Threadripper on Socket TR4.
What is the offering? What mobo's offers the best value for money? What to look out for?
We start with Asrock, in the next posts in this thread we will see ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI. No TR4 board yet from Biostar, AFAIK.
Asrock has two boards to offer, one aimed at gamers and a less RGB-based board, the X399 Taichi that gets my recommendation.
Both support NVMe SSD as boot disks.
Board Picture
(click for bigger picture)Power Phases 11 11RAM 128GB, up to 3600+MHz 128GB, up to 3600+MHzECC support Yes YesAudio Realtek ALC1220 Realtek ALC1220LAN 1x 10 Gigabit Aquantia AQC107
2x 1 Gigabit Intel I211AT 2x 1 Gigabit Intel I211ATWiFi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Dual-Band 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Dual-BandBluetooth 4.2 4.2PCIe 4x PCIe 3.0 x16 Slots
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 4x PCIe 3.0 x16 Slots
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1SATA 8x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s 8x SATA3 6.0 Gb/sM2 3x 3xU2 1x 1xUSB 2 USB 3.1 Gen2 10Gb/s (1 Type-A + 1 Type-C),
12 USB 3.1 Gen1 (4 Front, 8 Rear)
4x USB 2.0 2 USB 3.1 Gen2 10Gb/s (1 Type-A + 1 Type-C),
12 USB 3.1 Gen1 (4 Front, 8 Rear)
4x USB 2.0Format ATX ATXFan headers 5x 4-pin 5x 4-pinNewegg Price mwave.com.au Price CCL Computer UK
N.B. for both: If the U2 Connector is plugged in, the M2_1 connector will be disabled!