2990WX refresh boards

Please do yourself a favor and stay away form ASRock.

If you check this forum you'll see how much ASRock have neglected their X399 and X370 boards.

Stick to the likes of HP, Dell for workstations. A flashy, bling-edition of Fata1ity is hardly a WS material.


Edited by xhue - 01 Sep 2018 at 7:02pm

I wish I was kidding you.

Take your time and look around here. None of us really thought ASRock would cr@p that much on their products' support, but here we are.

They make a really decent hardware, but that's pretty much it. All you get is a well-engineered paperweight.

I got my X370 Taichi for light VM workstation build and nearly 2 years later all I can do with it is some browsing, office work and light gaming. If it decides to POST, that is, because it often it won't.

I'm now oogling the ROG ZENITH EXTREME for a decent 2950X build. Unlike ASRock's BS this one makes a decent WS.

Words of wisdom - stay away!

AORUS have always been glorified PoS in my books.

TBH, I always go with ASUS for demanding custom desktop/WS builds, and I've never regretted it.

I just tried ASRock this time around because all the internets were praising their X370 Taichi line. Boy, was I wrong.

In a recent thread here guys were cursing the merely 3rd (yes, 3rd, for almost year and a half) BIOS release for ASRock's top X399 board. Come on!

Bottom line - if I had the need - I would get the ZENITH EXTREME. It's a monster of a mobo and it will surely be a decent investment. I know it's expensive but is $30 less for another mobo worth it?

datonyb is onto something here - decent 10Gbps add-on cards are ~$120 nowadays.

2990WX build won't be a budget one for sure - it will need a monster of a PSU, monster of a cooler, sh*tload of (fast and expensive) RAM, decent CPU power phases (and cooling for them), and probably RAID NVMe SSD for boot or NV cache.

All of the above is well beyond an 'enthusiast' budget, so a measly $120 on the top won't be the deal breaker.

Judging from your nickname, you're probably a Magyar. It's wise to check mindfactory.de for decent price on all PC stuff.

Hmm, 4 x 2-slot GPU would be a deal breaker for add-on NIC...

Running TR in quad-memory config. will hamper your ability to run higher RAM speeds due to controller limitations. Ironically, TR/Ryzens benefit from high RAM speeds. 2400 should do just fine.

Overall, it should be a decent upgrade anyway. 2990WX's potential lies with rendering and similar tasks.

You could really use NVMe in RAID for a local cache, it will surely beat 10Gbps NIC.

By being a Magyar I meant you're Hungarian. I've seen only Hungarians use 'sz' together.