The Gigabyte X399 Aorus Pro. Similar target audience as this board. But a smidge more expensive. The Asus Hyper M.2 x16 or Asrock Ultra Quad M.2 with 2 and 4 NVMe SSDs.
It looks like a nice upgrade if you still hold onto a X58 board but need modern I/O. I like how the board packs a lot of workstation features for $250. AMD's Ryzen is really getting somewhere.
Wendell from Level 1 Techs just did a cool build with this board as well. And Steve over at Gamers Nexus did a video detailing some vulnerabilities with different RGB lighting software. Happy Holidays Brian!
Thanks for the compliments. Though I don't have time to watch other youtubers unfortunately my man. How is this a step up on my game from previous mobo reviews?
Oh ok, I started doing it in my previous two monitor reviews at the start and people were loving those monitor reviews, so I figured detailing things with text during reviews such as this is much more preferred (than just simplifying it) - glad people are liking it.
Hey Bryan you should use HWInfo instead, as HWMonitor can be buggy with Zen so may misreport things. Pretty good board though, if you're trying to save as much as possible. But for $20 - 50 more you can have a Gigabyte Aorus Pro or an Asus Prime-A, both of which have 8 phases, although the Gigabyte has 50A low-side's instead but the Asus has 60A ones, and the Asus board also has the active VRM cooling kit available which will make it handle a 2990WX at up to 4GHz. That aside, in a case, this board will comfortably handle a: 1920X -- 4GHz -- 1.4 - 1.45V 1950X -- 4GHz -- 1.4 - 1.45V 2920X -- 4.2GHz -- 1.4 - 1.45V 2950X -- 4/4.1GHz -- 1.2 - 1.25V/1.3 - 1.35V 2970WX -- 3.5/3.6GHz -- 0.95 - 1V/0.98 - 1.02V 2990WX -- Stock/3GHz -- 0.82 - 0.86V With active cooling on the VRMs: 2950X -- 4.2GHz -- 1.4 - 1.45V 2970WX -- 3.9/4GHz -- 1.13 - 1.17V/1.2 - 1.25V 2990WX -- 3.5GHz -- 0.98 - 1.02V Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Amd's Threadripper are absolutely not for overclocking, so this Motherboard for a cheap 1900x or 1920x for workstation or high render is just perfect. Good video, Brian!
Absolutely amazing, i bought one, but I little confused about ram compatibility, because web page said dimm socket support like 2 or 2/4 i don't know what that's means?? And about the power supply what do You recommend?? Great vídeo. i have a threadripper 1950x.
Hello Bryan... Great review as usual... I have been watching your motherboard reviews for quite a while now and I am wondering which software/utility do you use to check audio crosstalk. Thanks.....
I know this is an old video. With that being said, My own x399 phantom gaming 6 will be delivered thursday. The 12 core 1920x is only 250 dollars with free shiping. If I can find a 1950x for a good deal ( under 400) I'll grab that instead.
That is a heavy feature set for the price point. 16c/32t for under $1000 is pure insanity, not long ago (at all) we would have had to pay that much for an 8c/16t i7 CPU on it's own. With a good deal on a 1950x (under $600) + this board and a decent quad channel RAM kit and you are all set for a beastly upgrade for ~$1000. Assuming you already have a decent PSU and GPU in your current setup.
Great video, I'm always up for a good budget solution but I'm not 100% sure the x399 and threadripper platform are really the place to be cutting corners. Just a personal thought.
I'm not the RU-vidr, but i've been doing a ton of research on this. If you have the space in your case go wit the Enermax 360 AIO (the bad reviews were from the first gen production issues, which seems to have been resolved). If you want best performance on air, go with Noctua (here is a link to Level1Tech Reviews on Air Coolers): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YYYMzJKxYig.html If you hate the look of the Noctua coolers and want something that looks cool with pretty good cooling then go with Wraithripper. Hope that helps! I've never done so much research on a platform that I don't own yet lol.
If this was available 2 months ago,I might have opted for 1920x instead of the 2700x I ended up with. Pretty dang happy with the 2700x though, so no regrets.
This board could be even better once the 7nm Treadripper 3000 series comes out - 4 channel memory goodness with high clock speeds. Could you game and work without crippling game performance?
Hey Brian!. I'd like to know the Tech Yes bargin hunting method for the most recent version of office, not 365, proper office. Please tell us where you get the deals on keys for Aussie versions of the latest things Windows please. P.S. I used to use edealsonlineau, but it no longer works, so I would love to know the most recent site for the deals!. Thanks for a great year, best wishes and I'm looking forward to another ripper year!
Quite high VRM temperatures, from your thermal camera it looks like the heatpipe is not working at all being colder than the main heatsink itself and the secondary heatsink being cold as well.
emmisivity... Point the camera at a mirror, and you'll know what I'm talking about. If its reflective, it can't tell the temp of that object (more likely it will pick up whatever it is reflecting).
@@jakegarrett8109 That's true, forgot about it being reflective. He could have shown the secondary heatsink on the thermal camera as well, temps are quite high for such a massive heatsinks.
hi, i just bought that motherboard and i wanna know...i need connect both 8pin from the motherboard or is enough 1? i use a TR Ryzen 1920X (cheap price actually and a good performance for what i need :D)
Any of you guys update the bios to 1.30? I've been on the first version as I've read elsewhere people were having problems with it. Any issues that any of you can mention? I've got the threadripper 1920x and running gskill 32gb in quad mode(4x 8gb 14cl 3200Mhz), Windows 10 Pro, samsung evo 970s non-raid but I'm considering a raid setup as the prices keep coming down on the M.2 drives. Thanks in advance
-Better VRMs (can handle slightly higher clockspeeds for 16 core TR and the higher core ones shouldn't be used on this mobo) -More IO -More PCIe slots (usually 4 x16 slots and a few x1 slots, while this has only 3 x16 slots) -Better audio (although if you're really into audio you've likely got a killer external solution anyways) -More RGB (yes) It honestly isn't worth it when you can usually find the more expensive boards at a 20% higher price point, but as it'll get cheaper in the future it could be a good budget option for people getting into TR4. You can probably get away with most of those shortcomings with adapters though, so they're not really deal-breakers.
@@richardscarlett7942 Iam new to the channel, can you provide the link? My idea was just that maybe TR4 will be less attractive then given the price of AM4 boards. But they could of course do 32 core, 64 core on TR4....
With only 2 channels of memory, 16 cores on AM4 will be constrained in some workloads. So 16 cores on the TR4 socket will have a distinct IPC advantage over 3rd gen Ryzen @ 16 cores. That said it depends on frequency as to whether 16 cores on AM4 can offer benefits over 2nd gen ThreadRipper, but as 3rd gen Threadripper will also be Zen 2, it could be well worth any additional expense to set up 16 cores on TR when compared to 16 on AM4. I would expect that a 16 core 3rd gen TR will get a dramatic price cut to about $599-$649 down from the $899 it is now with the 2950X and be a 3900X and not 3950X as TR should go to either 48 or 64 cores. With a 16 core Ryzen said to be $499, it may not be as good a value given the AM4 constraints. 12 cores on AM4 is likely to be the sweet spot for price performance on the platform at sub $400 pricing and if you are thinking 16 cores, then the TR platform will still hold a lot of appeal.
I reckon it will be quite difficult to feed a 16 core CPU with power on an existing AM4-board, since most of them only have 1x 4 pin or 8 pin 12V CPU power connector. This Asrock X399 Phantom 6 mainboard has 2x 8 pin 12V CPU power connectors! If the TDP in general can be lowered in Ryzen third gen, maybe this Asrock Phantom 6 can be compatible with a 24-core 3. gen threadripper :-)
@@drschlemer Not difficult at all to power 16 cores on AM4, what can be the difference is whether that's an X or non X chip with different TDP's, some boards weren't designed to power 125W TDP or higher continuously due to their VRM cooling and phase configuration, though most likely many can do it. The EPS connector supplies additional power, the reported maximums for continuous watts with a 4 pin is ~155W and an 8 pin 235W, doing the maths the 24 pin system power connector can provide 75W and each 4 pins of the EPS adds 80W, though I'd suggest that working from 75W would be more appropriate. meaning 150 and 225W. Though clearly the 8 pin is able to provide far more as we have seen power draws for CPU's over 300W at the extreme end of overclocking, and even a 4 pin falls within stock specs for TDP and default max temp power draws (usually around 140W). Those wattage's are more about the pin design than the cabling maximums. What you may be confusing is stock vs overclock potential and then the 16 cores comes into play regarding all core frequencies. But with most modern boards having 8 pin EPS connectors then that allows for more than enough headroom for reasonable overclocking on 16 cores, VRM configurations are more likely to be the bottleneck to decent overclockability than the EPS connectors.
dude please reviewing hybrid physx with amd+nvidia in your next video..since you have acces to many type GPU. i only find nvidia+nvidia here in youtube but not amd+nvidia...maybe you will open the pandora box with this
yeah, they are using the exact same socket and package as their server CPUs, and those have 8 memory channels and 128 PCI-E lanes, so that is why the socket is so huge
@@MarkoHR absolutely. But that's quite wasteful. Especially with a dual GPU setup this will get quite complicated. And for rendering (which is a selling point for TR i'd say) multi GPU still scales excellent
@@TheRailroad99 For just X1 PCIe, you can buy a $2 adapter that goes from the M.2 to PCIe... Also why limit to 3x GPU? My Taichi board was like $300, that's just $50 more. I run 4x GPU for 4k gaming (a little over 2x the fps of my Titan Xp collectors edition while using just $520 plus water blocks with R9 Fury, I really like multi-GPU!)
