Motherboard recommendations for Threadripper?

[danio1011]

Hi all - I'm looking into building a threadripper 1950x system.  Was just curious if anyone had any positive or negative experiences with motherboards?  Seems like they can be good or else a bit of an achilles heel...and a lot of the reviews are from super early, so I'm assuming some of the issues were fixed.

The Asrock Taichi looks good but is always sold out.

Cheers and thanks for any feedback!
Daniel

[GeorgeT]

I got the Asrock Taichi, it's great after a Bios update

[4b4]

Running the ASUS® PRIME X399-A here and its been rock solid although that's without any overclocking

[danio1011]

Ok, thanks both!  I'll take a closer look at the X399 Prime.

Was the bios update critical?  Anything to know about that?

[kehlje]

Hey Danio, sorry to hijack your thread, but what graphics card are you getting?

[danio1011]

Hey Danio, sorry to hijack your thread, but what graphics card are you getting?

No worries, I was thinking about doing a build report thread since there were some lessons learned.  Anyway I got an Evga 1080 ti SC2.  Decent value, double slot (rather than triple) and quiet.  I felt a Ti left the door open to gpu rendering later (more ram). If you were for sure gonna do multiple cards + gpu rendering you might do a blower/ref model.  If you have no interest in gpu ever I’d do a 1070.

[Rimas]

I have 4 GPUs in my rig, 2 1080Ti FE and 2 1080 FE. I use them for mining nearly 24/7 (while I'm at work, at home relaxing and when sleeping) and I use them for FStorm GPU rendering - blazing fast stuff to have alongside Corona. Though I will say I prefer FE cards - if anyone knows how to make a decent board - it's Nvidia. Far too many failed partner boards out there for my liking, so I'll sacrifice a bit of cooling for reliability. Had all 4 cards since launch and they're kicking like new. Getting to 2100MHz core on all 4 cards isn't an issue under full rendering load either, which I can't say for many partner cards :)