Question 1

Does it require a full tower to install this motherboard?

Accepted Answer

No, a full tower is not required.  The board's form factor is ATX and any case that supports an ATX motherboard will accommodate this board. Check your specific case's specifications and make sure it supports ATX.

Question 2

Does this board include a Thunderbolt header?

Accepted Answer

No it does not. The only 2 x570 motherboards with TB3 support are the ASRock Creator and Taichi. (See the Anandtech article, but my understanding is they are very much hacks).

Question 3

Has anyone used water cooling for this?

Accepted Answer

I used a Watercool Heatkiller IV water block with that board to cool a 3700x. I paired it with a Aorus waterforce RTX 2080 Extreme. They were each plumbed on their own loop. Great motherboard.

Question 4

Can this board run a 3950X our of the box?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All bios revisions support the 3950x.

Question 5

Does Newegg sell the Revision 1.1 of this motherboard  that supports 1 x Thunderbolt™ add-in card connector (indicated on Gigabyte's website)?

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Are there any resource conflicts between any of the NVMe drive slots and the PCIe slots on this MB?  Often using certain NVMe slots will end up disabling one of the PCIe slots.

Accepted Answer

I have this board and the manual states the following.

Using M2A_SOCKET all sata ports will be available

Using  M2B_SOCKET all sata ports will be available

Using M2C_SOCKET 2 ports will be disabled if using M.2 PCIe SSD. If using M.2 SATA SSD no ports will be disabled.       The disabled ports are SATA port 4 and port 5

Question 7

If your GPU is in the top PCIe slot for 16x support does it matter which slot the PCIe 4.0 NVME drive is mounted to?  Are you losing performance if moving it to a lower slot?

Accepted Answer

Not that I have seen. If the 4x PCI-E bus shared with the GPU 16x bus, it would just downshift 16 to 12 or 8x speeds. Linus Tech Tips did a great video going over the PCI-E 16x vs 8x bandwidth differences that netted no measurable loss in performance. As far as I am aware, the only performance loss you might lose would be in purely synthetic benchmarks if at all.

The only clear impact documented is SATA ports are disabled when multiple M.2 slots are in use.

Question 8

How loud is the fan on the chipset? Is it noticeable at all?

Accepted Answer

Mine was definitely audible on first boot but newer BIOS versions have allowed configuring it to spin slower.  Other fans in my system are now as loud/louder than it.

Question 9

Will this support the Ryzen 5900x?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it will!  I just installed F31b this morning, the first AGESA 1.1.0.0 GB has rolled out.  Bios F30 will support the 5900X, as well, but the upcoming F31 with AGESA 1.1.0.0 will support it even better and will be the preferred bios to install.  You are good to go with the x570 Aorus Master and Zen 3!

Question 10

does it supports three RTX 2080 Super at the same time?

Accepted Answer

The RTX 2080 Super only supports 2 way SLI. The motherboard is not a factor.

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