Review: MSI MEG Z790 ACE
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Marky Mark
I really wanted this to include 10Gbe (chip shortage still?) but I decided to go with it anyways and dust off my Asus XG-100C for connecting to my servers. Only light gaming for me, this is for photo production since the 13900k has huge gains for editing work. Hopefully two sticks of 32GB memory will hit 6000. I didn't consider the placement of the aRGB connection but we'll see how things go in the 011 Dynamic XL.Cheers!
kakiharaFRS
Marky Mark
kakiharaFRS
MSI TRX40 was a dream come true for me, it's the 1st ever motherboard wysiwg (what you see is what you get) for me all the pcie slots ran properly with all m.2 all sata ports all rear usbs (I had a lot of external drives, replaced by a 10gbe server now) I ran 8x 3200mhz ddr4 fine and they abandoned us 🙁 a shame
I'm one of the few people who has seen what happens when you run out of pcie lanes I had "not enough bandwith disconnect some usbs" from windows and "disappearing" pcie cards and or sata drives back then (when you run out of pcie lanes the motherboard stops seeing your pcie card or sata drives it's like it's not connectedand doesn't even show on bios the port is just gone)
i can confirm on AMD all you get is 3600Mhz with 4 sticks (that's for dual rank sticks but I don't know 16-32gbs sticks that aren't might be some)
2 sticks all that works for me is 4800Mhz anything else and it doesn't boot or crashes, the mouse cursor "stutters" or stops moving both in bios or windows if it boots
I have seen 6000Mhz boot but 1st cinebench R23 run was 32'000 so something obviously wrong and after a few benchmarks it crashed and refused to boot
as I said I plan to RMA the motherboard soon because lots of people had to rma their x670e meg ace (and my bios is clearly broken I can't change 1 setting or it stops booting) and depending on what they say might go 13900k I'm not brand loyal
I always reinstall from zero, in my case it's clearly either mb defect (likely) or a bios problem and there's only 1 this far, I tried 2 betas I found but they do the same
Astyanax