I've been on the fence about a 1950x for a while now, so been watching this item closely.
This is pretty much the best X399 board you can get, and the best price on Amazon to date (source CamelCamelCamel)
$799 @ JW & MWave
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Figured if TR2 comes out, TR1 may drop in price - though Zen+ chips I believe came out cheaper than the original Zen chips did, so perhaps TR2 will as well.
But that's not really why I was on the fence - everything I've read has said this is a monster of a CPU, but quite fussy about things like ram, so trying to decide between the 1950x & i9-7900x
similar overall performance & price - but the i9 has a higher per-core performance - hopefully something TR2 will address.
wait 8 cores 5Ghz coffee lake X ….
Keep waiting.
ROGs are generally gaming products but doubt there’s many games that would support a 16-core CPU making it futile?
True that a 16-core CPU isn't really for gaming. But though its a 'ROG' board, and has an overload of LED (not for me thanks!), I would call this an enthusiast board rather than gaming.
60 PCIE lanes
10G ethernet
Dimm.2 slot for NVMe RAID
128GB Quad channel ram support
This is more in line with my high end workstation board I use for my server (just missing the IPMI connection!)
While it does have 'gaming' in the name, ROG is also the top tier of the line Asus range (excluding super niche things like the MARS lineup). It just makes it easier for people to know if they want the best, most expensive Asus board - go ROG.
Threadripper isn't a gaming CPU, there's better performing and significantly cheaper gaming CPUs out there. The Ryzen 7 1700x performs better than the 1950x in most games.
Just a heads up if you are getting this board. I got this board when it first came out and had some issues getting the screws to catch for the cpu cage. Realised I wasn't the only one with this issue(link below) and some people had to return their boards to claim warranty as they have broken it or get it exchanged. In the end I manage to get it to work after putting my full body weight (85kg) onto the screws which bent the board slightly.
Hope they have fixed this but if they haven't, those getting one might want to think about warranty.
https://community.amd.com/thread/219286
Yes, though this does appear to be a common issue with the socket mechanism spec, rather than specifically an ASUS issue. Frustrating though I bet!
Are you going to get the 1950x or wait for Threadripper 2?