GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI (sTRX/AMD/TRX40/Fins-Array Heatsink/12+2 Phases Infineon Digital VRM/3x PCIe 4.0×4 M.2/Intel WiFi 6/Intel GbE LAN/ATX/Motherboard)

Defective on arrival
I received a defective system on arrival which wasn’t apparent in enough time to send it back with in the allotted time. The system constantly reboots and purges its bios settings at random times. This means I have to constantly go through the bios to setup my machine, which can take a good 10 mins to boot up since it think its a new machine, and has to reset the bios. Another disappointment is that if I put the computer to sleep or hibernation mode, it will also reboot itself. Hence, if I want to keep my work, I have to shut my computer down every time I’m done using it. The ire! I’ve asked that I be given an opportunity to trade it in for another device, where they would send me the a replacement part and I would send them back the defective part (where I offered to give them the money for the part until they physically received the defective part) but they insist that I have to send it to them to get it fixed, which will take up to 3 to 4, or even more weeks. It is impossible to be with out the computer for a week, let alone 4+ weeks. I’m now looking to come out of pocket to purchasing another motherboard, or suffer the never ending irritation of using that motherboard.

They had what I needed in stock
I have 4 machines built around this mother board. I had a machine failure and not able to get help from Gigabyte support. I was desperate to get this PC back online so I searched for a TRX40 Pro Wifi motherboard hoping I could find an exact replacement. OHAHO had one so I ordered it. I received the new board quickly and was able to continue to troubleshoot my PC. I don’t know what else to say. I got what I needed. Thanks!

Works fine, few odd things though
For the most part this motherboard is fine. It works fine for games and high throughput computations (its not bottle necking).Overall, it is great for the price (considering this is $2-300 less than the other MOBO’s out there). More worth it than ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme MOBOA few things to bear in mind:-There is fan on the motherboards chipset, which has a housing. This housing protrudes a little far from PCB. When installing the GPU’s, I had to force it a bit because the the housing was stopping it from going all the way in. This was mildly concerning, but nothing went wrong.- If you were to put single slot GPU’s on the first x8 PCIE and second x16 PCIE slot, you would almost completely choke the airflow for the motherboards chipset.- I installed 3 GPU’s (x16 x16 x8). The second x8 would not fit a full sized GPU because of the motherboard’s cabinet pins would have been blocked. I had to purchase a PCIE riser and use mount the GPU as a display card. Please note, this is not unique to this motherboard, many motherboards have this problem.- As some one else mentioned, one DIMM does touch the heat sink. This is only if the heat spreader is large. I installed ECC RAM, which has no heat spreader. The distance was not a problem and it does not effect the thermals. Additionally, the height profile is slightly lower than my RAM, it should not be a problem to put an air cooler on this.- Some say they cant fit their water blocks. I purchased a Bitspower Summit EL-X. It fits fine. Please be aware, Threadrippers are large chips, it is common sense that there will be less ‘space’ on the motherboard.- The 12V rgb 4pin didnt work? Or I coudnt figure it out? not important enough to care- The I/O Shield is connected to the MOBO. Unusual.- Wifi was not plug and play. At least on Linux. Of course, Ethernet > Wifi…- Overclocking in BIOS is weird. You have to scroll through a list that always starts at the lowest values (like 8x multiplier on 100mhz base = 8mhz… who runs a CPU at that now a days).- Using Linux, I had problems detecting the CPU temps. Eventually found ocerman’s zenpower github. Worked great from there.- Performance was great. Testing on Cinebench R20, scores were above average from base clock to 4.5 GHz. Of course there are more factors involved. Point is, it performs fine.

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Had alot of issues……..

Did not work with two different PSUs straight out of the box. Returned to seller who sent it back saying pins were bent, so no refund was issued and board doesn’t work. I would avoid this particular seller.I purchased a different from a different seller and had no issue with either PSU that was used in the original test with the first board.