GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS Master (sTRX AMD TRX40/Fins-Array Heatsink/16+3 Phases Infineon Digital VRM/3x PCIe 4.0x4 M.2/Intel WiFi 6/5GbE+1GbE LAN/E-ATX/AMD Motherboard)

4 months of use so far with Noctua-cooled AMD 3970x threadripper and 256 GB RAM. Had transferred NVME sticks and HDD's from an x570 Aorus Master to this, and it worked fine after some driver updates and reboots. The only thing that gave me issues were a Sabrent NVME PCIe Gen 4 stick, which pretty much has limped along for almost a year and I'll probably never buy another Sabrent drive again.I do alot of CAD, meshing, and CFD work, and sometimes utilize all 32 cores and will occasionally page memory after chewing thru all 256 GB of RAM, and do this for days on end. Simple WD Black 1TB NVME Gen3 stick works well as a data drive. System uses a ton more electricity than the 'old' 3900/570 build. Given the Corsair 3600 memory is not ECC, this trx40 Gigabyte build is production stable and reliable, and definitely punches above it's weight class. Just wish it could handle more than 256 GB of RAM lol

I used this in an all business (read: no flashy rgb lights) workstation using Threadripper 3960X with RTX3090 and 128GB RAM and I was very pleasantly surprised with this motherboard for something that is basically the opposite of a gaming PC. Passed POST on first boot, excellent built in heat sinks for NVMe PCIe 4.0 m.2 drives (I installed 2 drives totaling 12TB, and both worked perfectly). The only real weakness I could find with this board is they only put an Aquantia 5GBe network adapter on it when almost everything in this performance bracket is 10GBE today, and 5GBE is a very odd standard that very few Ethernet switches support, and I need to waste a PCI slot for a 10GBE adapter for something that should be on board. I understand they did it to justify the higher price of the TRX40 “extreme” version, but after lots of research, the general consensus is that this board is much more stable/reliable than any of their other TRX40 boards.

I like this motherboard. Its well laid out, and easy to build on. So far, I haven't had any stability issues (running stock, without any overclocking).Pros:1. 2x PCIEx16 slots which are far enough apart so that you can place your video card well below the CPU, keeping airflow neat2. Relatively quiet even though the motherboard has its own fan3. Heat sinks on M.2 slots work well and have their own conductive foam4. Power button on motherboard + LED codes make debugging easy at the start5. Ample connectors for everything (USB-C, front panel audio, AIOs, whatever)6. USB-C on back panel, and connectors for front panel7. Wild looking antenna for WiFi, but it seems to work well; comes with a magnetic pad to 'stick' to your caseCons/Gotchas:1. Logos can be a bit juvenile, but that's just a style thing2. Built-in AX200 wifi works great, but... Ubuntu 20+ picks it up without issue. On Debian (either stable/testing)- you'll need to manually add Intel provided .ucode files to /firmware.3. Easy to miss plastic film that needs to be taken off the bottom of the M2 heatsinks4. RAM locations may be tight given cooling solution for CPU (I'm using a Noctua NH-U-14S TR4 SP-3, which fits fine)

Bought one of these for a build, thought it went rather well and the resulting machine performed as expected. Just over a year later, the motherboard failed, so I ordered the same model to replace it, assuming it must just have been a fluke. Now a second board of this model has failed after (again) just over a year. Won't be replacing with the same one this time.

I have always built my computer for my personal business needs, and Gigabyte has been a staple in those builds. I chose this one for its options, and they get better - with better documentation and bios usability.

Rock solid stability. Zero motherboard related crashes in 8 months.Runs 8 sticks of ram and a 3970X just fine.

On the surface is a good board. Great power delivery and good PCIe lane layout.I would have preferred it if it were more of a workstation board with just one 16x lane a bunch of 8x lanes, but I knew that before buying.It loses two stars for the following reasons:- No option in BIOS to disable WiFi, Bluetooth, and on board sound.- On board sound uses some sort of dual USB implementation which does not work at all under Linux.- Would be nice if I could modify the big bright orange LED directly front he BIOS without installing OEM spyware in Windows.

This motherboard has on multiple occasions in the past week gone from normal audio levels to multiple orders of magnitude past painful volume levels with no warning or user requested change in volume. Sometimes it's fine for days at a time other times multiple reboot won't fix the audio. I'm using the latest drivers and the latest bios it happens under Windows 10 and Linux (fedora); I'm pretty convinced at this point its a hardware problem with the audio.So do yourself a favor if you hear crackling noises when listening to audio don't wait for it to randomly increase volume by 1000x and damage your hearing (or your headphones) just get a cheap audio pice card to replace the built in usb audio card.