Asus ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming AMD 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper sTR4 ATX Motherboard with 16 Power Stages, Onboard WiFi 6 802.11Ax, 2.5Gbps, USB 3.2 Gen2, 3X M.2, OLED and Aura Sync RGB Lighting

This is a system builder’s dream! Great design and a lot of forethought given to features and performance. Recommend this mother board for high performance and stability.

A true enthusiast board! Also works fantastic with all of my games.

Update: ASUS will not honor the warranty on any physical damage to the board. This includes a failure of the CPU mounting screws even if they fail (i.e. break.) before they meet the AMD torque specification (i.e. using the supplied torque screw driver). AMD says the bracket needs to meet the torque specification of the 3960x to work correctly and thus this is a motherboard manufacturing or design problem. Should anyone doubt this being a real issue the ASUS case number is N200265515.While I love the ASUS tech I would recommend finding another motherboard manufacturing company that will stand behind the products they make.VRM Cooling:The VRM heat sink and cooling fans are tall. In the Phanteks Enthoo 719 you cannot install 140mm anything. On the Corsair SPEC series of cases you cannot install a 120mm radiator on the top without removing part of the VRM fan cover.Device & CPU bracket failure:ASUS once again doesn't supply parts up to AMD stated specifications. Several days after installing the CPU one of the processor tensioning bolts/screws failed. This was after installing the CPU using the provided AMD torque screw driver. Ironically, I didn't even turn the screw driver until it clicked (only until it started to torque. Due to other warnings found on Youtube.) Thus, the screw must be way under specification. Ironically, they have had issues with torquing screws on other devices. Most recently, the AMD 5700 XT graphics cards.

I'm running a 3970, 128 GB of G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series (3600 MHz), two PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and an ASUS Rog Strix 2070 Super GPU. I say this to potentially excuse the noise issue (maybe this machine is just destined to always have fans spinning), but even under no load it seems that the chipset fans are always on (you can recurve them I suppose, but my system isn't running *that* cool anyway, so I probably won't do that ... and, really, how long does a system sit at no load ... running World Community Grid or Folding@Home will require them to spin up anyway). It's *not* "loud" ... it's just not quiet (I have a 9900K Alienware on the other side of my desk and that only makes a slight "hum" under load and runs about 15C cooler than the AMD system). I like the system, but the noise issue prevents me from giving it five stars. If your case is heavily noise-baffled and/or not ~3 feet from your ear, it might be a five-star MB for you though.