Chris Smiles
If you need a simple (take that with a grain of salt) board that boots fast and runs your latest Threadripper build, give this one a look. It may not have all the added on features, bells and whistles as a high end enthusiast gamer board, but it will fit into a midi tower (ATX), doesn't take so long to boot because of all the added features and chips, and will still provide all the performance that comes with the latest Threadripper platform. The board is well configured, no shenanigans to provide more power to CPU to make the board appear faster in benchmarks but causing issues with stability. I would have like a couple more USB ports, but the number is (just about) sufficient for my needs. I can always use external hub or add a PCI card.
Myth
Board is functional, but is NOT new like it was advertised. It came missing some components as well. At least it boots…
D. MCKEEVER
Board has 2 NVMe M.2 slots with aluminum heat shield/cooler. It comes with a PCIE card that supports more M.2 NVMe storage. Also comes with 10GBe network card and 2x1GBe on board NICs. Haven't had any issues with the boards I got so far, it was a little tricky setting up the NVMe M.2 into a mirrored RAID array (RAID1), as it is a multi-step process and the manual doesn't quite step you through the process, but that is pretty typical with all motherboard manuals, so no dings there. Supports MSIs "mystic light" so you can control all your RGB lights to give the effect you want. Not much else to say, it just works.
Timothy W. Smith
No RGB bling bling, only the digital LED status indicators. Everything was right about the design, and quality. I did have some trouble with getting Linux installed. I wound up disabling UEFI and using CPS boot, which allowed the actual Linux install to go through. Very odd that Live Boot from USB worked, but actual but from NVMe or Spinning DIsk after install wasn't working with EUFI. Other than that, board performs extremely well, and I'll attribute the issue to this being relatively new, and Linux not having quite caught up.