Yeah they need to streamline the drivers for that How you liking it so far ?

Whoa, that’s a nice board.  Throttles without a mono block/fan taped to the heat sinks though

@XenosTech  I think it's pretty good.  I've only been doing initial testing and some basic overclocking, but was able to dial in 4 GHz CPU / 3600 MHz memory right off the bat.  Timings and more tweaks to follow.

The setup felt sluggish initially as it was running off of 1 x 840 Evo SSD and I've become spoiled by RAID 0 NVMe + RAM caching on my x299 rig.  People that say you can't notice a difference are nuts or just convincing themselves that.  

@Damascus  I've got 4 x 120mm fans on the 480mm rad located just above the VRM, which are pulling the cool air past the VRM from the intake fans.  Those combined with normal air movement in the case are more than plenty.  I ran Prime95 with some custom hot settings and VRM stayed between 55c and 70c.  The VRM temps may climb a bit if I load things up without spinning the fans on high, but it won't be enough to be a problem.

For sure though, VRM temps on x399 are higher than those of my x299.  While the FIVR on Skylake-X does add to the CPUs temps, it sure does a great job of taking some burden off of the VRM.

lol you just need the dimm.2 and 1 pcie expansion card and you'll be good... Just gotta remember to balance the lanes from the ccx's

AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD

Intel AMD Intel AMD Intel AMD

I heard the NVME Raid setup needs some polishing. but hey it has it which is awesome.

Buy a laptop next year and you can chant that

At 4 GHz with 3600 MHz on the memory.

3628 ram ? Noice !

Yeah, I can run it at 3733 MHz, but I'm working on a stable 3600 profile before I go any higher.  

Don't remind me.... I have  to update my bios no thanks to intel...

How does it fare against your 7900X? They're similar price so I'm curious

4GHz 1.35V

Sounds like there's still some headroom left...

Nice multicore score. But why did you not include the single core score? 

@Morgan MLGman The 1950x has more power when you are able to run an application that uses all cores efficiently.  The 7900x is faster in everything else.  

The 1950x went on sale at MC for $699 and it was too cheap to pass on.  That's a lot of horsepower for $699.  My 7900x was $899 at MC.

I'm still getting to know the x399 platform so I don't want to jump to too many conclusions.  I can tell you that some things have been a real pain in the ass, while others were simple.  I can tell you that AMD memory latency is a pure shit show compared to Intel.  Bandwidth is good, but latency can be 2x higher or more.  Hopefully with some tweaking, I can get that under control.

I plan on doing a volley of tests to compare the two in the near future.

@DildorTheDecent I had a little LLC dialed in during that run so I think voltage went up to ~1.375v, but yeah, there is a slight bit of wiggle room left.  Not sure it's much though.  These Ryzen chips, or at least Threadripper, hit the wall hard and voltage doesn't fix it.

@PCGuy_5960  You and me both know why I didn't run the single-thread test.  I didn't have all week for the single-thread test to end.    But hey, that's not what Threadripper is all about.  It's just going to serve as a workhorse for me.