Pros: Fastest motherboard I have used Power (Start) is on the motherboard BIOS can be flashed without a CPU or RAM Beautiful aesthetics and layout for an E-ATX board

Cons: Cost M.2 heatsinks are locked in by top 2 PCIe slots. Can't change the M.2 device if the GPU is mounted. AI Suite 3

Overall Review: This is the fifth motherboard I have purchased from Asus over the years and it is definitely the fastest booting and has a very nice PCIe and M.2 configuration for Enthusiast builders. There are 8 USB 3.0 ports between internal and rear. 2 Type C rear and 2 Type C front headers. 2 USB 3 front headers, and more fan control headers than you can use on a desktop PC. 5 M.2 NMVE PCIe drives. You can build this monster with all SSDs if you wanted. With the board thermal armor and RGB lighting the Zenith Extreme II Alpha looks as good as it performs. If you want a great looking motherboard that is blazing fast for Threadripper Gen 3, this is your board! It has all the power and connections you need to tame a Gen 3 Threadripper.

Pros: Great price and great performance for ECC Registered DDR4. Supported in the DL325 Gen 10 Proliant server. Motherboard and OS see all populated slots. RAM timings work great with the EPYC 7302P in my server.

Cons: No Smart Memory chip for HP.

Overall Review: I bought these to upgrade the RAM in my Proliant DL325 Gen 10 server. After installing I had boot into the BIOS and let the server detect the new RAM. After that everything worked great. It would be nice if these had the HP Smart Cache chip since they are claimed to be an OEM equivalent replacement. These are 99% OEM, but they are rock solid performers. My server has been up for 3 weeks 24/7 since installing this RAM. No issues with Debian 10.6 Linux on kernel 5.8. Everything is working great!