At the bottom of the board is four full-length PCIe 4.0 slots which run at x16/x8/x16/x8, with two PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots complimented with a long M.2 heatshield which sits between the bottom two PCIe 4.0 slots. A third M.2 slot is located vertically along the right-hand side of the board just above the actively cooled chipset heatsink.
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MSI’s Creator TRX40 may be the best sTRX4 board for creative types, depending on whether you need a second graphics card or its included quad-M.2 adapter. Assuming you don’t need both, you’ll still pay handsomely for the privilege.
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In this review I’ll be looking at the MSI TRX40 Creator motherboard. This is a board supporting the extreme upper end of the AMD product line and designed specifically for the Threadripper 3. This is my first hands on look at the new platform and while I really wanted to use the X399 I’m glad I waited.
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Let’s talk expansion first. All four x16 mechanical slots adhere to the latest PCIe 4.0 standard, and they are all plumbed off the 56 usable lanes from the Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. AMD allocates 48 lanes for these slots, so if fully populated, you receive x16/x8/x16/x8 support.
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After taking the motherboard out of the box, we get our first look at the MSI Creator TRX40 Motherboard with its EATX 12” x 10.9” form factor. There are large M.2 NVMe heat sinks span the motherboard right side and bottom, that contribute to the overall look of the platform.
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It is time to review the next TREX in line, the MSI Creator TRX40. This Threadripper 3000 motherboard is ready for anything from 24 to 64 cores really. It has a beefy 16-phase VRM, you may mount up-to six M.2 SSDs with the help of an add-in card, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, AX wifi. The list goes on and on.
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The Creator has a full suite of high bandwidth options from USB 3.2 Gen2 through 7 M.2 slots and 10G LAN sitting alongside the Intel Gigabit option and Wi-Fi 6 AX200 wireless. All those CPU cores require a lot of power too and with a 70A power design there shouldn’t be any lack of ampage to keep your 3rd Gen Threadripper CPU fed.
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