Is it Wise to Buy Extreme Zenith?

[erefer]

Hi there,

I want to build a system with Threadripper and Extreme Zenith but now I'm starting to have second thoughts...
The reason is that I need a rock solid system that works 24/7 with no problems such as random short hangs, freezings or reboots etc.
I don't want to OC the CPU or RAM or anything extreme. I really don't care. Maybe in the future I would use x4 Nvme SSD's (Raid 0) with Asus Hyper Card x16.

But I see there is a ton of problems with this mobo and that's very sad considering the premium price of this board.
Plus (I assume) the support is a joke. I just saw that the last Bios Update was over 4 months ago. That's outrageous for a 500+ euros mobo!

So what do you think? I refer to the owners of this motherboard.
Am I wrong? Should I get the Extreme Zenith?

[R5Eandme]

Arne Saknussemm wrote:
These are the RAM specs guaranteed by AMD for various combinations of quantity/frequency

As you can see 8 sticks single kit is only guaranteed to 1866MHz for 16GB modules...i.e. if you try and max quantity..

4 sticks of 8GB gets highest frequency...

Thanks Arnie, that's good info. Wouldn't it be nice to have 128GB and really fast! Maybe in the future. I hope at least that RAM prices come down in the future.

[erefer]

Guys I need your advice again.
Could you suggest me a working(no problems at all) 64GB kit or 128GB kit that you use with no problems?
I won't OC or anything but I want 24/7 stability.

I don't want to buy so much RAM with these prices and have problems!

[paulmarc]

erefer wrote:
Guys I need your advice again.
Could you suggest me a working(no problems at all) 64GB kit or 128GB kit that you use with no problems?
I won't OC or anything but I want 24/7 stability.

I'm using the Hyper-X FURY (comes in 64GB kit: 4x 16GB), with no issues whatsoever.

[Retired]

Much has been said already here in term's of functionality of this board. I agree, it's an awesome board, it's lighting fast with a 1950X and stacked up with all ram modules. I possess 64GB Goodram (2x8GB kits, for a total of 4), running under 2666mhz. I did have problem's in the beginning, mainly installing Windows 10 Home but that's because I thought you can overclock the ram frequency without the cpu (so the service agent @ the retail store said in Warsaw). That wasn't true but here I was thinking that nowadays, maybe it's possible. Anyhow, I switched to the ram frequency back to default values and everything is running fine up on till this day :cool:
You shouldn't worry in term's of ram as long as you stay under JEDEC standard's. I don't think my ram manufacturer is even listed under memory QVL. You can load all module's up to 128GB, but yeah, I guess it's expensive everywhere 😛
I hope that everyone's input enlighten's your decision on buying this motherboard.

[paulmarc]

So far, the system's been behaving nicely, and with "regular" load.
Granted, its exhaust is quite warm, but running 2x GPU's with 6x HDD's and 3x M.2 drives is bound to generate a little "heat".

Temperatures are well within boundaries, and I feel it's gonna be able to easily stay up and running for a long time.

I will increase the workload gradually this week, and will keep at it for at least a month.

Hope you will join the club in owning this wonderful board.

Note that my running Linux might be "helping" in stabilizing the system...

[tstager]

I've used this board since Oct 2017 and It hasn't given me any issues. It has worked perfect since the first time that I fired it up. It runs 24/7. I wouldn't go with anything else.