ROMED8-2T/BCM ATX Server Motherboard AMD EPYC™ 7003 (with AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology*)/7002 Series Processors SP3 (LGA 4094) Dual 10GbE

This a great board for what it offers in its form factor. Have been running two of these units now for over eight (8) months in my home labs two Proxmox nodes and have not had a single issue with either of them. Plenty of PCIe slots and for the most part good spacing on them. M.2 place is not the best but in a case with proper airflow, it will not be a problem. The 2x Intergrated SAS connectors instead of SATA ports as I can just connect it right to my drive backplane and the two Oculink ports is a nice plus for U.x/NVMe Drives. BMC is your typical ASPEED management and gets the job done with no complaints.I have tested XCP-NG, Debian 12, Manjaro and Ubuntu 24.04 on these boards and found now issues. Also tested server 2022 and it worked fine as well. (NOTE - This is a board designed for System integrators and Windows Server drivers will not be available from AsrockRack and will need to be sourced elsewhere).Specs in both nodes are AMD Epyc 7443p 24/48, 512GB 3200 RDIMMs, 8x1.92GB Crucial 5400 Pro, 6x 8TB WD RED Pro, and 1xNvidia A2000 in a 45homelab case with Noctura case fans for whisper quite operation. Each system at idle load bounces around 296-309W.Also, for the reviewer that was complaining about no support for Windows 10. This is a server board and was in no way ever designed to support any Windows desktop/workstation OS. Please do your research before purchasing any item like this to make sure it will work for what you want to use it for. AsrockRack makes Workstations class Epyc boards which are designed to support Windows Desktop class OS.

The mother board is not recommended, it is full bug, Dr debug "00" code and not compatible with the peripherals (memory and CPU), I have spent more than $2500 and I couldn't get it to work, don't waste your money.I tried it with another brand of memory and it doesn't work.The processor I am using "AMD EPYC ROME 48-CORE 7642" is listed in the manual as compatible.only IPMI works, but there is no information about components,I have been dealing with this for several days, but I don't really know what it is, if I don't get a solution I will ask for a refund.

I Picked the ASRock Rack romed8-2t/BCM motherboard for a multiGPU AI workstation build.It works fine for my purposes, but have a few issues that keep this from getting a higher rating. The single biggest issue I have is that upon flashing with the latest bios from the ASRock Rack website the motherboard refuses to post with both GPUs in. I was updating the bios in order to try and get added support for resizeable bar on the PCIe slots. updated to version 3.8 and then it refused to post. I was able to get it to post with a single GPU after that, but upon re-adding the second GPU it refused to post again. I used IPMI to downgrade the BIOS to 3.5 from the ASRock Rack website and it posted without issue. Tried upgrading the BIOS several time since to 3.8 with and without the 'keep bios settings' option and with various other configurations and always the same issue. Luckily I do not NEED version 3.8 as I do not NEED ReBar support. am not 100% sure 3.8 even adds ReBar support to be honest, but regardless wasnt thrilled with the inability to run the latest BIOS version in my dual GPU config.Another issue I found is that the way the networking is configured you have the option of bridging the IPMI network interface to the built in NICs... This is a BIOS setting and the bios and manual give very little information on what this means for the network devices. I set this to unbridged expecting to have dedicated lines run to the IPMI as well as each of the NICs. When running this way the IPMI worked fine but both onboard NICs seemed to have issues getting an IP from my DHCP server and even with a static IP the connections would not remain connected. In bridged mode it works fine for me. Its almost as if even when unbridged the IPMI shares a MAC with one of the NICs or something so cant function on the same network? I dont know.. there probably is a good explanation but because the documentation is severely lacking for this I dont know. Luckily in bridged mode NIC1 works fine for network connectivity and for the IPMI and thats fine for me, but this was a frustrating issue and should have had a better description in BIOS or better documentation in the manual.Another thing I was not thrilled with was the positioning of the front panel connectors on the motherboard. they are bent 90 degrees facing downwards if this motherboard is in a tower style case. this adds extra length and clearance needs. I am using the DARKROCK Classico Max eATX tower and I had to bend the power botton pins on the motherboard in order to plug the connector in to it. Given that this is an eATX motherboard I think its kind of wild to go with this pin configuration knowing it will likely become a clearance issue with the bottom of a tower styled case.Final note, this is not a huge deal, but just be aware that driver availability is very poor for Windows Pro(or home) for this motherboard. Windows Server 2022 and the latest version of Ubuntu worked fine, but if you were wanting to run this as a workstation build with Windows 11 Pro you're going to have some difficulties with network and other drivers.

Let me start by saying I will never buy from ASRock ever again. Bought this very expensive board and they provide very poor support and ABSOLUTELY NO DRIVERS. NONE. Installed Windows 10 Pro because I plan to run it as a Hyper-V host with GPU partitioning and it shows something like 12 unknown devices in device manager. With like I said no downloads available from ASRock. This is going to be a nightmare which should absolutely not be the case given the cost. Terrible company.

ASRockRack always great....

great MB with lots of connectivity options. no problems on setup and config.Only issue i have so far is M.2 slots are right at the end of 4 PCIE slots so they are can not have a heatsink or be easily removed without removing the PCIE cards covering it.

The Threadrippers can't do that, at least my 3960X can't support that and I want it for an AI rig using 7 GPUs!

Cannot get EPYC CPU to seat properly, first boot and it shows memory channels cannot be read. CPU pins are bent and likely dropping channels.