AMD Gigabyte X399 Designare EX Motherboard (AMD Ryzen Thread Ripper TR4/ATX /3x M.2/WIFI/Front & Rear USB 3.1/Dual Intel LAN)

Don't Buy this motherboard because this uses foxconn socket and this motherboard get it too tight, so the processor can suffer and don't give you that tor click sound so don't buy this for the sack of Gigabyte name or else for RGB the RGB is also worst not something great the worst RGB and also RGB on this Motherboard increase the temperature so while overclocking results get vary.

I didn't buy this board from Amazon, but bought from a local vendor. Here is some piece of warning to all of you who are planning to buy x399 boards. Some of the CPU sockets made by FOXCONN (used in Designare Ex and few other vendors) have defective screws that is used to tighten the processor lid. I guess the problem is with the length of the screw, but not sure. You may find it extremely difficult to tighten the screw with CPU in place. For me, the screw#1 just did not thread at all. Take out the CPU and screws are perfect. I wasn't sure of how much pressure I should put on it without damaging processor pins on the board. I finally took the board to a GIGABYTE service hub. They had a video call with their colleagues and finally pushed the socket lid down really hard to tighten it. Otherwise board is good, well loaded with features. I am giving only three star for the board because of all the sweat I had to wipe out from my forehead while installing processor, and associated confusion and inconvenience. Here is one of few links where this issue has been discussed. https://community.amd.com/thread/219286

Worst mobo mfg by Gigabyte with a huge failure rate. Runs all right for 6mo~ then suddenly fails with error code 00. Happened thrice. all RMA'ed. Their support is top notch so not problem with RMA's but hey, the board design itself is faulty.

1) Ease of installation: Ridiculously easy, no problem with CPU installation 2) Easy Windows 10 Pro installation provided you stay away from installing the Gigabyte apps except the main APP center and SIV 3) System has been smooth since bootup.

Easily placed 2920x AMD threadripper on it (though the frame protector was not in the rail!!). the M.2 ssd installation was easy. windows 10 installed (recent version from november 2018 i believe) Kubuntu 18.4.1 works like a champion (boot time: 15s). updated bios to F5x in windows with gigabyte s program issuelessly. DDR4: i first tried some G.skill 2400 mhz cas15 - 2x8gb but the score was just not so good and latency measured as 60ns. i now have xmp g.skill 3200mHz 2x8gb cas 14 (a bit more expensive! / newegg) and got the latency measured down to 49ns. check carefully the motherboard compatibility for DDR4 as number and type are important. and where you put it on too from the manual! if you need 8 ddr4, check the list as they are not all compatible for so many memories plugged with this board. i got a massive air cooled heatsink for the cpu (Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3). slot of memory (A1) is a bit hidden by heatsink it but i don t use it so... . it s a wild beast tower....outstanding. i was worried to run into tough issues after reading the other early august 2018 reviews (now feb 2019, but the plan was to send it back if it did not work), i had no issue at all with this board yet, and the last time i built a pc tower was in 2002...

I am a gigabyte user for many years. Even on this occasion, the motherboard is absolutely perfect and have hight specs compared with the mobo in range. Very recommended

Admittedly I was a bit skeptical at first when getting this board. It looks absolutely stellar on paper - but the paper is what marketing teams at these companies do so well at. It's the implementation that really needs to hold up for these boards to shine the way their adverts do. And I can say confidently that now the x399 Designare EX does. As EVGA says, a board is only as good as it's BIOS. And that is slightly ironic coming from them, in that the latest BIOS I had for my x99 FTW K was full of problems that led me to upgrade to this purchase. The reviews for this aren't very good and I think that's mostly down to the growing pains that any board goes through in it's early days, with the BIOS being ironed out. I can say confidently that out of the box, this board did everything it was supposed to and hasn't given me a single problem. And I ran the board out of the box with the F11 bios (am on F12e now). So it's clear to me that while this board has historically had issues, I believe they were mostly based around an immature BIOS that has been fixed up now. I am running this board with a Threadripper 1900x, 16GB of Corsair RGB Vengeance Pro RAM, a Gigabyte RX 580 8GB, a Thunderbolt Titan Ridge card and a Samsung 970 EVO M.2 drive. Of note is that I am able to run my RAM at the rated speed of 3200Mhz without any issues, using the XMP Profile #1. What's awesome about this architecture is that components like M.2 drives take PCIe lanes directly from the CPU, giving you spectacular data rates. I believe there is a total of 68 PCIe lanes available. Now, Titan Ridge: I have been building systems around thunderbolt for years now, and it is a default necessity for me. It was somewhat on a lark that I tried the Titan Ridge controller on this AMD platform after reading that some users had done it - and to my amazement it works out of the box, plugged into any lane, and the spec is fully implemented (ie hotplug and power delivery work). Note that there are no BIOS configuration options, and that authorization defaults to User Level (SL1). Gigabyte had plans for thunderbolt with this board, but for unknown reasons took mention of it out of their adverts. The GPIO still remains though, and with the card plugged into it, it is fully functional. Yes! So, with overclocking made easy with Ryzen Master in Win 10, RAM that is fully compliant with XMP profiles and runs at it's rated speed, well over 2133 (a default handicap on most x99 boards), ultra-fast connectivity with M.2 peripherals, full Thunderbolt compatibility, a wealth of PCIe lanes, and all of the other features this board comes with (RGB, temperature headers etc), it's a no-brainer. Also, this board has more of a professional polish and isn't soaked in RGB crap that would stoke the teenage masses. It has a look reminiscent of their workstation boards while still retaining some of the features that we find some guilty pleasure in some of the time : ) For $299 I believe this is a steal. This board can really only be rivaled by the top-top shelf of any other manufacturer, and because the BIOS is now seeing maturity and past it's growing pains that stop many users dead in their tracks, I think it's a winner. And the best part is that upgradeability is massive here: the Ryzen Threadripper architecture is a juggernaut and I believe is here to stay, making this beast more future-proof than really any of the 2011-3 or 2066 series. Although the Threadipper chips are pricy, I'd still heartily reccomend just slamming down the cash and picking one up with this board. Flash the bios to the latest, first thing, and you should be rolling.

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