Comments on: Gigabyte MC62-G40 AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro Motherboard Review

By: Park McGraw

Park McGraw — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:40:02 +0000

Hello Lalafelon: For the sake of clarity, Jay Kastner never suggested the giving up of available PCIe slots, only that the inner spacing for slots 1 and 2 be increased to accommodate double width cards, retaining the same 7 PCIe slot count, and the footprint of the PCB could have been made larger than CEB format. I have seen such double PCIe spacing on other “server/workstation” boards, or to be more descript, on high physical slot count and, or high phisical resource demand configurations, to reverse placement order such as that seen on the Supermicro X11DPG-QTo. I make use of 11 active PCIe slots, of which some PCIe slots are off loaded onto my own custom made backplane assembly with 10 additional, single width, PCIe slots (6×16, 4×1), fitted into a 1 of, factory custom made CaseLabs Twin STH10 case with matching twin pedestals. The workstation motherboard configuration makes use of twin double wide PCIe for both slots 1 and 3, slots 2 and 4 left vacant, plus have x2, 12G RAID Controllers with 4GB cache each, and x4, 12G RAID Expanders (off loaded from motherboard), hosting 68 hot slot drive bays. Would you, per your experience, stigma rate the above mentioned rig a “consumer” based motherboard system, and at the time of completion ranked near the top, <2%, for the CPU class, just because it makes use of double width slots, like that seen on some gaming systems?

By: Lalafelon

Lalafelon — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:07:29 +0000

Jay: No, the PCIe spacing is fine. If you want to lose slots, buy a consumer board for that! Some of us need the extra I/O slots for other hardware.

By: logoffon

logoffon — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:19:13 +0000

I noticed a barcode on that “unique password” sticker. Has anybody tried scanning it into a password prompt?

By: Jay Kastner

Jay Kastner — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:31:47 +0000

The first two PCIe slots (close to the CPU) should be spaced for double-wide cards, the board would have been only 1.5 or 2 inches bigger. Possible the traces would be too long though for PCIe v.4. Nice board nonetheless!

By: Ken K

Ken K — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:52:44 +0000

The system diagram in your article does not match the diagrams in the motherboard manual or the W771-Z00 server manual. Both show all three SlimSAS ports connected to the WRX80 chipset.