Joined on 10/13/02
Premium board, premium price
Pros: Latest bells and whistles of the X570s Chipset, Wifi 6E, ultra high quality construction. 4 M.2 + 2 more via an add in card. Again, the construction is top-tier
Cons: Sound! While the sound may be clear and very good, I'm not sure what to think about it. I was looking forward to the switch away from Soundblaster Z, however, the software and setup of realtek and Nahimic are garbage. Also annoying that it shows up as a plain old "USB Audio" Sound device.
Overall Review: Sound software setup aside, I wish a board in this price range had a 10Gb LAN for the price, otherwise, the kitchen sink IS included. I moved my 5900x CPU over from an Asrock x570 Taichi, that system was well tuned and ran great, I just loved the aesthetics of this board. Interestingly enough, I was able to wring out a little extra from the curve optimizer, most cores on the 2nd chiplet are at -30 whereas on the Taichi, -22 was about as low as they'd go. All in all, not much of an upgrade over older X570 boards, but I am very happy with my system.
Not sure if I got a bad unit
Pros: nice looking
Cons: I decided it was time to update my system and thought the x72 would be a nice touch. Unfortunately, when compared to my 5 year old ( or so?) Kraken x60, I had to slow down my overclocked 8700k by several hundred MHz to prevent overheating and BSOD. CPU temps would spike hard, air bubbles maybe ?
Overall Review: I ended up re-installing my old Kraken and life is good again. With the X72, I tried to clean up and use a different thermal past, checked the backplate a few times. Did everything I could to try to get it to cool to the level I thought it was capable of and just did not accomplish that goal. Now Newegg will be $30 richer with my re-stocking fee on what I feel is a faulty (expensive) prduct.
My 2nd review of this product
Pros: Super fast at XMP, currently running at 3800MHz 16-16-16-36-48-392 1t 1.5v (see screen shot). Also runs stable at 4200MHz CL 18 with very impressive bandwidth. Latency is around 64-66ns at that speed. CPU memory controller was not happy over 1900MHz, WHEA errors (not a memory issue) so I am sticking with 3800MHz for now.
Cons: none -- I really can not see a difference with Dual Rank vs Single Rank in testing when compared to other SR Trident Z Neo 3600 CL14
Overall Review: Best of the best, even if your board is not on the QVL - Runs perfect with XMP on my Asrock X570 Taichi --- Update now running on a MSI MEG ACE MAX.
Sold well
Pros: Never took it out of the box.
Cons: Had to "win" the shuffle. Not fair to the people that have to pay more than double of would the card should be selling. Please stop bundling your cards with low end hardware that people dont want.
Overall Review: sold immediately on a popular site for more than double. I was happy
Pretty good for the money
Pros: nice price for the package. Included extras were decent
Cons: gaming performance is not that great, included M.2 SSD was slower than most desktop hard drives. I ended up replacing the 128MB M.2 drive with an older 950Pro I had laying around. I have to tweak driver/ preferences to get the right graphics card to display games.
Overall Review: pretty nice for the price. some quirks, still a good deal
unreal
Pros: TU106-400A core verified. FAST!!! boost clock set to 2070MHz, Memory at 8000MHz. water cooled with a krakenX . 3d Marks 22,824 Firestrike at 1080p
Cons: price
Overall Review: Highly recommend. I assume this runs as good as a "Super"