News Asus' WRX80 Motherboard for AMD's Threadripper Pro Is Surprisingly Cheap

[Admin]

Recommended price for the Asus Pro WS WRX80E-Sage SE WiFi is below €999.

Asus' WRX80 Motherboard for AMD's Threadripper Pro Is Surprisingly Cheap : Read more

 

[waltc3]

Z490/Z590 motherboards aren't even in the same league as this WRX80... I wish the motherboard vendors luck in selling the Z590's for $1k... Not even counting the awesome capabilities of the WRX80E motherboard that the Z590 motherboards can't provide at any price--when you add in the TR CPUs, there's just nothing left for the Z590's, imo... Talk about an apples-oranges comparison!...Z4/590 isn't even close to being competitive, imo.

 

[Makaveli]

Z490/Z590 motherboards aren't even in the same league as this WRX80... I wish the motherboard vendors luck in selling the Z590's for $1k... Not even counting the awesome capabilities of the WRX80E motherboard that the Z590 motherboards can't provide at any price--when you add in the TR CPUs, there's just nothing left for the Z590's, imo... Talk about an apples-oranges comparison!...Z4/590 isn't even close to being competitive, imo.

Agreed totally difference class of users and expectations.

 

[CerianK]

They elephant in the room is that the WRX80E motherboard does not have Thunderbolt... but that elephant is a small one, since PCI-e 4.0 add-in should be possible (either now or soon), and USB 4 (supporting TB3) coming down the road.

As always when I think about building a new system, I worry about it being obsolete shortly after I finish it, which is a real possibility with TR Zen 3 and/or DDR5 not too far off (but not necessarily both in the same product release).