ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi II AMD WRX80 Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Extended-ATX Workstation Motherboard

Received my board today and noticed the it was tampered with the seal was pulled off and -stuck back on upon inspection , i found that the board is cracked !! Hopefully the new Board is is in better condition 🤞

la placa aprendio a pensar y me esta hablando en aleman, pero muy buena compra

PCIE 4.0 is not working on this motherboard. I tried 4 different OS, including windows (supposed to be supported). One RAM slot is not working neither (C2 error) whatever that means because the manual does not match the errors you will see on display. The support is awful, QR codes leading nowhere, lacking so much detail to address problems. I managed make it work with Fedora 39 + PCI 3.0 versions. You can save $500 for a cheaper PCI 3.0 motherboard.

Packaged poorly like last time but luckily arrived undamaged. This may be the heaviest motherboard I have ever owned and that is saying a lot. It is beefy, for serious PC builders. That being said, it was packaged inside of a large Amazon box almost 3 feet long and twice as big as the motherboard box with a single 3 foot piece of brown packing paper so it slid freely inside. I can only imagine the abuse it suffered getting here and may account for why the first one didn't work. But this one does and it is fast!

I built a fast deep learning box around one of these, and suffered 6 months of incredibly frustrating problems; it wouldn't start or stop reliably. That's an extremely mild description: picture hours of restarts, black screens, random shutdowns, video crashes, etc.) I assumed that the problems were caused by Linux and I tried hundreds of fixes, including switching between 5 or 6 different Linux distros, updating the BIOS and firmware, messing with the GRUB system, and much, much more. Finally, it occurred to me that the motherboard might actually be defective, so I called ASUS customer service. They had me remove the motherboard (not a small job) and mail it to a repair center in the US. The center returned it about 2 weeks later saying they had found no problems, but a piece of paper floating around in the packing showed that they had replaced a capacitor and one other small component. Since then, it's worked perfectly. In summary, it seems likely that it was defective, but ASUS didn't want to admit it. One other thing: It's a slightly weird board inasmuch as it is built like a hybrid between a server and a regular mobo, so it's not easy to access fan controls directly. There's some software from ASUS for fan control, but it only works for Windows (thanks, ASUS!) Also, I installed it in a big case that had lots of USB ports, only to discover that the motherboard only has plugs for a couple of them (it was my first build, so just a reminder that a case may not match the board perfectly).