Hi.
You wrote that your Titan Xp is also called "gamer's graphics card". Yes, but Resolve is using the CUDA cores in it.
Jim Anderson Senior Vice President from AMD says at 7:50 in this YouTube: 'MSI MEG X399 Creation motherboards is more for Creators, Asus ROG Zenith Extreme is a great Gaming motherboard'
Here is an another link for a new X399 Refresh motherboard 'GIGABYTE Ships X399 Aorus Xtreme: A Chariot for Threadripper 2'
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13206/gi ... rus-xtremeI looked at its QVL for a couple days ago. Its look promising.
Here is a link to 'The GIGABYTE X399 DESIGNARE EX Motherboard Review'
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13001/th ... ard-reviewYou ask 'where's the trick?' It is a Generation 1 motherboard with a design for a TDP of 180 Watt. But both the current 16 core 1950X and comming 16 core 2950X also have a TDP 180 Watt rating.
I didn't check the QVL, but I expect it also to be first generation.
That makes the GIGABYTE X399 DESIGNARE EX special is that Intel in a blog announced that they want to give Thunderbolt 3 for free to the rest of the industry. So the X399 DESIGNARE EX have a header for it. But the Thunderbolt 3 was never completely implemented. You can red more about it in the beginning of the 19 Comments.
And this time page 3 of the 'The ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme Motherboard Review: Top Tier Threadripper' for what is in the box:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13081/th ... ard-reviewM.2 DIMM 2 vertical board
ASUS AREION 10G PCIe ×4 LAN adapter.
The M.2 DIMM 2 vertical board goes into the 9th DIMM socket.
The ROG AREION 10G PCIe ×4 card is a PCIe ×4 and will requere one slot if you want to use it.
The distance from the CPU socket to the first PCI x16 slot is different from motherboard to motherboard. On Phoronix.com saw a picture of the ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme where the huge AIR cooler was to large for a add in card in slot 1. They solved it by moving the graphics card to slot 3. But with 2x Titan Xps you don't have that possibilities. So I will look at the best Noctua Air cooler you can get.
Regards Carsten.
I wrote this long post before I saw your last questens. I will come back later.