ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi II AMD WRX80 Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Extended ATX Workstation Motherboard

Received my board today and noticed the it was tampered with the seal was pulled off and -stuck back on upon inspection , i found that the board is cracked !! Hopefully the new Board is is in better condition 🤞

la placa aprendio a pensar y me esta hablando en aleman, pero muy buena compra

I built a fast deep learning box around one of these, and suffered 6 months of incredibly frustrating problems; it wouldn't start or stop reliably. That's an extremely mild description: picture hours of restarts, black screens, random shutdowns, video crashes, etc.) I assumed that the problems were caused by Linux and I tried hundreds of fixes, including switching between 5 or 6 different Linux distros, updating the BIOS and firmware, messing with the GRUB system, and much, much more. Finally, it occurred to me that the motherboard might actually be defective, so I called ASUS customer service. They had me remove the motherboard (not a small job) and mail it to a repair center in the US. The center returned it about 2 weeks later saying they had found no problems, but a piece of paper floating around in the packing showed that they had replaced a capacitor and one other small component. Since then, it's worked perfectly. In summary, it seems likely that it was defective, but ASUS didn't want to admit it. One other thing: It's a slightly weird board inasmuch as it is built like a hybrid between a server and a regular mobo, so it's not easy to access fan controls directly. There's some software from ASUS for fan control, but it only works for Windows (thanks, ASUS!) Also, I installed it in a big case that had lots of USB ports, only to discover that the motherboard only has plugs for a couple of them (it was my first build, so just a reminder that a case may not match the board perfectly).

Packaged poorly like last time but luckily arrived undamaged. This may be the heaviest motherboard I have ever owned and that is saying a lot. It is beefy, for serious PC builders. That being said, it was packaged inside of a large Amazon box almost 3 feet long and twice as big as the motherboard box with a single 3 foot piece of brown packing paper so it slid freely inside. I can only imagine the abuse it suffered getting here and may account for why the first one didn't work. But this one does and it is fast!

I got this motherboard for personal work, it offers a great balance between expandability and reliability. And the price for the value is absolutely worth it. This is a great solid motherboard and I am so far lovin it I just finished setting up Ubuntu on this workstation. Want to get some applications running now. Thank to ASUS and Amazon Support for the help!