Pros: - LOTS of PCIE lanes, 3GHz base, this is the perfect cpu.

Cons: - Any existing ASRock EPYCD8 board or SuperMicro H11 that is not sold pre-packaged and tested with this Rome cpu is unlikely to ever support Rome because the bios chips are too small. Make sure you can download a supporting bios patch for the revision of your target board that supports this chip before attempting to upgrade. Pretty sure every SuperMicro H11 board on NewEgg that is not pre-bundled with a Rome cpu has the older revision 1.1 bios soldered down and will never be compatible. - Hopefully some time in the next year? Compatible boards will be available for this amazing cpu.

Overall Review: Verified Rome 7002/7001 EPYCD8-T2 board now up on newegg does include the larger bios and works with this cpu. I am a happy camper.

Cons: Is this a scam? There is NO way to activate this product - it appears you need to register as a business with microsoft when using the url on the provided card... and then ??? There is no product key inside with the dvd ... only a sticker you can put on the computer. Using the dvd to install behaves exactly the same as using windows media creation tool ... either way - you have to buy a whole other license to activate the pc. The COA sticker in the package does not contain any thing useful for activation. If you are like me ... building a computer for someone else DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY

Overall Review: ITS A SCAM - OR THE POOREST DOCUMENTED PROCESS EVER

Pros: - lots of PCIE3 slots / dual 10gb nics === perfection - packaged with larger bios chip / works great with Rome EPYC 7302p CPU - works great with crucial ddr4 3200 ecc ram - bios has an amazing number of options vs earlier rev 1.1 bios

Cons: - BMC on my board will not initialize but everything else works ... hoping its an early bios issue ... dont need remote hands / I can live with it - Noctua cpu fans power down when cpu is under 50c ... early bios? easy work around / case fan headers working as expected

Overall Review: Looking forward to future bios updates / otherwise this is the perfect board to pair with what Patrick at Serve the Home is calling the 7302p "Category Killer"

Pros: - great price

Overall Review: Tested 128 GB in both ASRock EPYCD8 and SuperMicro H11SSL with 7401P and no issues at 2666... Hoping to use this ram later at full speed with Rome CPU if / when the revision 2 versions of boards with larger Rome compatible bios hit the market.

Cons: revison 1.1 bios - so I will never be able to upgrade this board to a Rome cpu / but I expected that. Pretty sure if I got the same board bundled with a Rome cpu, it would be packaged with the larger compatible revision 2 bios.

Overall Review: - Having the board pre-tested and validated with the cpu / bios / ram provided a lot of peace of mind. - Board booted up with no issues while populated with 128 GB crucial ddr4-3200 - Centos 7 runs awesome with no issues out of the box.

Pros: - Boots a lot faster vs older X399 gaming pro carbon when fully populated with ram, nvme drives, and mellanox cards - Running Centos7 with KVM guests using pcie_aspm=off in grub and custom ML kernel with config option CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP=N - Love the VRMs on this board

Cons: None - worth every penny