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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A motherboard with a name like “Godlike”—and it’s not MSI’s first bite at the apple with that family name—sets some serious expectations. Though we’re not here to debunk the dominance of this deluxe motherboard, we have to observe: Its price is as equally high in the heavens as its name.
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Regardless of how we define cheapness, this board still gets you a voltage regulator with eight 46A MOSFETs for the CPU core on a board that undercuts the other “value-priced models” we’ve tested by a wide margin. That voltage regulator should be adequate to run the full range of Ryzen 3000 processors at stock settings. Since our test CPU is a middle model, we’ll push it a bit with overclocking.
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Plumbing in our usual settings of 4.35GHz and 1.325V vcore sadly saw our system freeze under load, which was mildly concerning, but thankfully heading to the EFI and applying a modest amount of loadline calibration solved the problem and the system passed our stress test as well as a full run of benchmarks without a hitch.
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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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AMD leveraged GlobalFoundries 14nm to build the TRX40 chipset, which in a maximum I/O configuration, offers 16 downstream PCIe 4.0 lanes for peripherals. Like other AMD chipsets, motherboard vendors can select between these PCIe lanes and additional SATA ports, giving board makers some flexibility between PCIe and storage.
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