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Li Ken-un Giving it a name like “Godlike” is such a tease. With a name like that, one would expect a feature set unsurpassed by others of its class. 😞 No USB4 v2.0 (80 Gbps) No ECC RAM supportTo correct this review’s mistake (“ Network Jacks (1) 2.5 GbE (1) 5 GbE ”) on the bottom table of page 1: this board supports 10 Gbps Ethernet and 5 Gbps Ethernet. The rear panel section of the specifications page confirms it. https://storage-asset.msi.com/global/picture/image/feature/mb/X870EGODLIKE/images/MEG%20X870EGODLIKE-io.png USB 10Gbps (Type-A) Flash BIOS Button Clear CMOS Button Smart Button 10G LAN 5G LAN Wi-Fi / Bluetooth HD Audio Connectors USB 40Gbps (Type-C) USB 10Gbps (Type-C) USB 10Gbps (Type-A) Optical S/PDIF-Out Reply
8086 Li Ken-un said: Giving it a name like “Godlike” is such a tease. With a name like that, one would expect a feature set unsurpassed by others of its class. 😞 No USB4 v2.0 (80 Gbps) No ECC RAM supportTo correct this review’s mistake (“ Network Jacks (1) 2.5 GbE (1) 5 GbE ”) on the bottom table of page 1: this board supports 10 Gbps Ethernet and 5 Gbps Ethernet. The rear panel section of the specifications page confirms it. I tend to agree but a lot of this limitation is not on MSI but on AMD and the severe limitations they placed on what they call "ENTHUSIEST" chipsets that I find to be lacking in many areas, especially PCI-express lanes. Just a number of years ago their X570 Godlike sold for a mere $600 and had more features (relative to it's time) than the current lineup. Reply
TechieTwo It should be called: "Golden Profit for the mobo maker". While it's nice to have exclusivity and all the whistles and bells, being exploited is simply foolish IMNHO, no matter how much money you had before you purchased this board. 😉 Reply
LordVile I thought the godlike was the Halo SKU not flagship. A flagship product is typically the best selling. Reply
Notton ECC support is like the only thing Asus and Asrock have going for their AM5 mobos. C'mon MSI Reply
thestryker With regards to a client platform the only thing really missing from this is ECC support. This is something MSI has never enabled on any of their AM5 boards and I don't know that they've ever addressed it. If one was to have it though this would be the one. I think Wendell from Level1Techs hit the nail on the head though: if you're spending that much on just the motherboard why aren't you buying Threadripper. Consumer level boards tend to have some very good options at reasonable prices, but also force you to pay a lot more for specific features than should be the case. Two CPU attached PCIe slots is a big upsell as is a 1DPC memory configuration (unless you want a low end board). Reply
emerth Forgive my snark, but anyone who buys this does not deserve a lucky plushie: they deserve an idiot badge. Reply
emerth thestryker said: With regards to a client platform the only thing really missing from this is ECC support. This is something MSI has never enabled on any of their AM5 boards and I don't know that they've ever addressed it. If one was to have it though this would be the one. I think Wendell from Level1Techs hit the nail on the head though: if you're spending that much on just the motherboard why aren't you buying Threadripper. Consumer level boards tend to have some very good options at reasonable prices, but also force you to pay a lot more for specific features than should be the case. Two CPU attached PCIe slots is a big upsell as is a 1DPC memory configuration (unless you want a low end board). Thing is you can buy a serious server or workstation board with ECC and 10GbE and all the other server features on expects for less money than this board. This board is intermediate in features between desktop and workstation/server, but costs much more than workstation/server. Heck, back in the summer I picked up a couple of Gigabyte B850 AI Top. Dual 10GbE, PCIe5 x16/x8x8 (unswitched), dual PCIe5/x4 SSD (these two off a switch) and a PVCIe5/x2 SSD. Oh and a PCIe5/x2. Price per: $450 Canadian. Reply
thestryker emerth said: Heck, back in the summer I picked up a couple of Gigabyte B850 AI Top. Dual 10GbE, PCIe5 x16/x8x8 (unswitched), dual PCIe5/x4 SSD (these two off a switch) and a PVCIe5/x2 SSD. Oh and a PCIe5/x2. Price per: $450 Canadian. That's probably the best priced board on the market that has 10Gb and 2x CPU PCIe slots. As long as you don't need more storage or USB it's definitely impossible to beat. emerth said: Thing is you can buy a serious server or workstation board with ECC and 10GbE and all the other server features on expects for less money than this board. No AM5 workstation/server board is going to offer the connectivity this does. The vast majority of them will also have basically minimum viable VRM. The thing they will all have is ECC support (and some will have higher speed networking and remote management support), but that can be gotten from Asus/Gigabyte. If you're talking about Threadripper then yes, but I already mentioned that. Reply
emerth thestryker said: That's probably the best priced board on the market that has 10Gb and 2x CPU PCIe slots. As long as you don't need more storage or USB it's definitely impossible to beat. No AM5 workstation/server board is going to offer the connectivity this does. The vast majority of them will also have basically minimum viable VRM. The thing they will all have is ECC support (and some will have higher speed networking and remote management support), but that can be gotten from Asus/Gigabyte. If you're talking about Threadripper then yes, but I already mentioned that. Connectivity can be subjective: I could plug many 5Gb/s and 10Gb/s devices directly into the MSI, but almost all of that bandwidth is going to go thru the chipset/CPU link which is a bottleneck. IDK if one can achieve RDMA over USB3/4 so data moving between devices does not have to traverse the bottleneck – can that be done? If the CPU is consuming data from more than a couple high speed devices simultaneously then the bottleneck will show up clearly. One could buy (say) a Gigabyte B850 AI Top and a better quality USB-C switched hub for much less 💰 and have similar connectivity and the same bottleneck. Reply
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