AMD X399 Motherboard Review Collection
One item deserves its own five minutes of fame: A break-out PCIe card that houses the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 WiFi module and antenna headers. This solution occupies a lone PCIe x1 slot and a USB 2.0 header on the board. We’d recommend populating it in the bottom x1 slot. If you’re using SLI or three dual-slot PCIe cards, you’re forced to put the card into the bottom x16 slot, which is less than ideal.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
MSI’s X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC ($369.99 MSRP), as its name implies, tilts heavily toward gaming use. There aren’t a lot of X399 motherboards on the market at all, and all are pricey, in the $300-plus range; we saw just six models at the time of the Ryzen Threadripper launch, and we still see less than 10 for sale on Newegg.com at this writing.
Read more @ PC Mag
AMD Threadripper has proven to be a powerful processor well suited for workstation type setups and AMD did a great job fitting the platform with plentiful I/O and expansion options. Gigabyte has taken advantage of this new platform and built a high-end workstation motherboard around Threadripper.
Read more @ STH
GIGABYTE launched a sole X399 motherboard for AMD’s Threadripper CPUs at launch. However, other vendors didn’t do much better. As the high-end desktop market is quite niche, motherboard vendors typically only put out a few high-end motherboards for the new sockets. At X399 launch, most of the motherboards we saw were aimed at gamers, they have tons of RGB LEDs, gaming NICs, and looked like gaming motherboards.
Read more @ TweakTown
Motherboard performance doesn’t change that much from brand to brand. The main differences for the consumer are the added features each motherboard provides. The Designaire has more features than most users will know what to do with, but it’s designed to be capable of virtually anything you wish to throw at it.
Read more @ eTeknix
Finally AMD is right back into the thick of a market it has been noncompetitive in for over a decade, the high end desktop. This means we have new high end feature packed motherboards to drool over. The first of which we have on hand here today, The Asus Prime X399-A.
Read more @ VR Zone
Appreciating the high-level similarity between chipsets – massive socket, eight DIMM slots, heaps of M.2 and storage in general – there is little reason to reinvent the wheel. In fact, we’re comfortable in saying that Aorus takes the same floor plan for this TR4 board, but that’s no bad thing.
Read more @ Hexus
ASRock’s X399 Taichi was the first X399 motherboard we took a look at, and it not only performed well, but it was also loaded with quality components. ASRock’s take on the X399 platform is interesting, to say the least. They are using high-quality parts, implementing solid platform features, but not adding in too many aesthetic features.
Read more @ TweakTown
With a price equal to the MSI X399 Pro Gaming Carbon AC there is tight competition for your money if you’re wanting something to squeeze your Threadripper CPU into, but the folks at ASRock have picked up the gauntlet of high performance and rich feature sets and seen about planting themselves firmly in the group of companies at the top of the motherboard chain. Are they successful?
Read more @ OC3D
Today we have another fantastic X399 motherboard to review. This time it’s the ASRock X399 Taichi. As the name suggests, it utilizes the latest X399 chipset from AMD for their new TR4 platform, and is suitable for all Ryzen Threadripper processors.
Read more @ FunkyKit