ASUS WRX80 Threadripper Pro system for Video and 3D Production

Have you actually got Windows 11 to install with this mobo? I have tried every single sata driver variant they have available for download and I cannot get the installer to continue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ultimately want to dual boot this, so I can switch back to linux for now. But, I would like to get windows 11 running on this.

I'd actually load it up with 256gb RAM, install ProxMox on it, several VM copies of the same distro of Linux running, and then open as many Firefox windows in as possible as my window to the web. FireFox is my killer application. Rendering videos out with Sony Vegas on Win7 or Win10 VM is important, but only ocassionally, so only one GPU with 4 Displayport outs is necessary or driving a big monitor like the Odyssey G9. I churn out videos for YT but I don't use Resolve or Premier.

I've got a 7950x no with 128gb, and the problem I run into is not that I'm limited by RAM, but by Firefox crashing when it gets too overloaded with 100 windows open, so I have to start up a totally new isolated version in another VM and spread all the Firefox tabs out.

I'll probably just upgrade my system to 196gb with 48gb sticks, because moving over to Threadripper would be a step huge hit in price tag for more cores, and I'm not really limited by cores... but by software.

great video , this board is the best $1300.00 dollars of my life. gaming networking

4x GPU is bad for ecology. Ban this channel

Good day - what is the cooling system model?

This channel is amazing! The best for 3D Content Creators. Asus just send this man his sillicon already!!!

I really don't need such a system.

Do you think the rtx4090 founders edition would do well for large data 3D image rendering? Would it be wise to add a second?

given that most users only end up using the video outputs on one, maybe two of the GPUs (people rarely have more than 10 monitors per computer on a workstation), it would be interesting to see a build that uses some pure compute cards (no physical video outputs) like the nvidia tesla series alongside the normal GPUs, especially in a watercooled build.

Any chance you guys can update this with the 5000 WX Pros plus 4000 Series GPUs?

4x 4090 gpus is what I would use.

Modeling, Animation, Simulation with Bifrost and rendering.

If I were to build a system like that, I would be using it for deep learning and mental ray vray. I ideally would like a silent system and would install for or eight water cooled Rtx a6000s or four Intel a770 if practical because of the amazing value of intels a770 cards if possible. I am waiting on a motherboard that will support up to eight DDR5 dim slots. I would also love to be able to squeeze in some of those super fast PC i.e. drives.

Is wrx80 motherboard have overheating issue????

mediaman - what open air frame as you using in this video? I need one

hello dumb question im a compositor using nuke but also gamer, i really need workstation ws quality components due to the amount of work i have to deliver and 4k video i have to proccess but, is it overkill to game in this aswell or is it any good if i paire it a amd threadripper pro 5965?

Too bad they don't make blower style cards for AMD gaming GPUs anymore :(

I spit on your face

But it's also expensive as f*** (if you want to build this with 4 high end GPUs).

I just bought this mb with intentions of streaming, media, editing, and data research. Im stumped on what path to take with gpus though. A singl radeon pro w6800 or 2 watercooled 2080 ti?
Im having difficulty deciding because i dont fully understand how using the raid card works.

This is such a great video and channel

FINALLY someone figured out how to use the "third" slot by making right angle connectors. The only catch is you have to buy a seven PCI slot system to do so. Oh and install 3 GPU's Hybrids if possible and leave aa slot for the 4xM.2 card. Rendering powerhouse with fast rendering load times and video scrubbing in 4K

For any octane blender ppl, just found out If your running a board with multiple GPUS and or with risers from the smaller PCI slots then your not getting the full rendering power, accoring to otoy if it needs to be a x8 X16 PCI slot to work properly and this seems to be the only board that supports pci x16 on all 7 slots thats not a mining board with only 2 ram slots. If anyone knows a better one for octane please lmk?

Do not buy this board. It throttles A2000+ series nvidia cards to 300 MHz. Asus has not responded to this issue after over a month after starting rma process. No response, whatsoever, and they know of this issue. Disgusting. Computer store response: " Confirmed issue with specific GPUs going into low power mode on client's motherboard (Asus WRX80 Sage Se). Mobo has issues with A2000 and A4000 quadro cards. Was able to get it working by covering pin 30 on gpu. "

I love all the awesome tech. However, what was not mentioned in this video and many others that highlight all these super powerful systems, is the amount of heat that is produced. It seems that performance is all that is focused on. Do you know what kind of heat comes out of a machine with a 250 watt TDP processor, a 350 w video card, a thousand watt power supply, nvme cards that heat up, and if we include a couple 4K monitors, whatever room this system is in is going to bake like an oven. Yes I have experience. I don't know why this detail which is so very important just isn't included in these reviews.

Hello Mike, thank you for the high quality videos you produce for us all this time. I have 2 questions if you can help with. One , do you consider a good case the Be Quiet Dark Base Pro 900 Rev. 2 Gaming Full Tower for this build? and No2, i m planning on setting up an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX (16 core) and Dual (2x) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. Alongside 2 SSD Nvme 2TB (EVO), 64GB Ram DDR4, A water cooling for AMD (Asus ROG Ryujin 360), with motherboard Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI Motherboard Extended ATX. All these in an Full ATX Be Quiet Dark Base Pro 900 Rev. 2, with the option to add more SSDs later.

This will be my Blender 3D Workstation for rendering and working. My head is blocked on PSU and consumptions which i m not good at. Can you please help me with a quality safe choice? If possible a PSU that could accomodate in future the 4 NVME drives u describe in your video. Kind reagards!

I just got the same board with 2 3090ti.
I got ecc memory 256 but they don’t seem to work. Wondering if you have a recommendation to which I can use or maybe I’m doing something wrong.
Also do I need to plug power into those extra 6pin power on the mobo? Cheers

I really want to have a dual CPU Threadripper pro system. How do I do that?

I'm Going to Buy 2x Nvidia Quadro A6000 (For rendering very large scenes) & I'll put them on Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI Motherboard (which has 7x PCIe 4.0 all of them are x16 slots) with RTX A6000 NVLINK. Now I have 2 options to buy the NV link kit from : either 2-slot or 3-slot 2X kit.
Questions:
1- Should I put the 2 cards next to each other & buy the 2-slot Kit or leave 1 PCIe slot empty between them & buy the 3-slot Kit ?
2- Would it make difference in Temperature & ventilation or not?
3- does the difference between the 2-slot Kit & the 3-slot Kit affect the transfer speed between the 2 cards (since all PCIe slots are x16)

It's beautiful board. Too bad it's garbage. Most probably. I own X99-E WS and I can say for a fact that board IS garbage. X99-E WS has 2.5 stars in amazon. The build quality is atrocious. And to be fair I don't think things have improved. I think the entire WS lineup has that atrocious build quality. I didn't see in the video how this board sits in it's box but mine was able to rattle quite a bit, which I think is a major contributor for the issues I had down the line. I returned two boards before I got a working one. And through the years I had USB ports dying on me, SATA ports as well, until finally the entire board died. I think I did check the amazon score of this particular board and not surprisingly it wasn't high.
OK I just checked it again: 3.5 stars. Not too bad but give it time, it will fall.

Correction: When I say poor build quality I mean only the soldering. I think the soldering is bad. The rest of the build quality is top notch as usual for ASUS. But of course, when the soldering is bad nothing else maters. I'm gagging to buy this board but my past experiences won't let me. BTW the board I replaced my X99-E WS with - the Maximus XIII Hero Gaming also burned out in 7 months. I figured I have move away from ASUS. They disappointing me one too many times.

I just haved a 1050ti and there's 4 gpus??

i pluged 4 x rtx a5000 with nvlink on this mb and just amazing ! No lane problem or …

I would suggest using risers to take advantage of all 7 full 16x pci-e 4.0 slots. 6 GPU rendering station plus the RAID card for panning in post at the same time.

My A4000 video card was throttled back to 300 MHZ on this motherboard working so poorly a WX 3200 ran circles around it. No fix in sight...

Rtx 3090 vs RTX a8000 quadro sir? Best For workstation ?

I am building a machine with this motherboard for After Effects, Cinema4d and Resolve. I will start out with the 3955WX, two 1070Ti, decklink 4k extreme, Focusrite Dante card and 4 drive NVME RAID.
The decklink needs two slots, as the daughter cards are now attached. So you may need to get the 8K pro if you want 3 GPU and Resolve to actually be outputting to a reference monitor.
You will also need to attach the two extra 6 pin and 1 extra 8 pin PCIe cables to give the motherboard adequate power for more than one GPU.
The Rednet card gives me proper Atmos (7.1.4)output from Resolve chaper than any HDSDI audio converters can. You can't do that with HDMI which only has 8 channels and spatial data.
The 3955WX is not going to benefit from 8 channel RAM however, so hopefully I can upgrade to the 3975WX at some point.
All this will be obsolete the moment you can actually get PCIe5 and DDR5 on threadripper pro, but fingers crossed the motherboard will be able to use the new processors.
Also worth mentioning that Lenovo permanently lock their processors so you can't use a threadripper Pro processor once it has been in a Lenovo machine.
You really can ONLY use the the noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 I if you want to air cool this, as the dark rock will block PCIe slots and cannot suck from the otherside. Noctua is thinner and can have a fan on both sides. It will still blow upwards though. Supermicro do the only correct oriented cooler but it is small and loud
I don't need ECC or registered ram, doesn't really help as far as I know with AE, Resolve or C4D.
Nvidia stopped peoplke making blower style cards so probably looking at modifying and liquid cooling if you actually want 4 x 3090. and I wouldn't risk it on less than 2000W which might be hard in the us of no watts
If my machine works when I set it up I will let you know!

Dear GOD :O

Holy crab, I’m here freaking out and wanting a 3080 😂

Why did you choose Gaming GPUs and not workstation GPUs?

I realize that this video was made during the summer of 2021 but the ASUS PRO WS WRX80E SAGE SE is not the only option for mobos go for builds with multi gpus (3+). The supermicro m12swa-tf has 6 16x (cpu) pcie slots for gpus. It's significantly cheaper than the asus pro board shown here and supports threadripper pro cpus. It's currently the mobo i have installed in my workstation along with three rtx 3080s (with room for a fourth) and a threadripper pro 3955wx and is an extremely capable piece of hardware for less money.
Just wanted to let people know that the ASUS PRO WS WRX80E SAGE SE is not the only option out there.
Love the channel btw and the content. Keep up the good work and please stay informed! :)

Can you confirm that you actually plug GPU cables into the motherboard pcie power connections, and that the manual is wrong. Will help a lot of people power this thing properly!

Thanks @Mediaman Studio Services for your very informative video on ASUS WX80/TR PRO workstation. Apologies for my basic question, newbie in PC builds.
I intend to build one but have a dilemma. On checking the specifications on the motherboard manual it requires the following power cables.
A. ATX_12V_1
B. ATX_12V_2
C. PCIE_8PIN_PWR
D. ATX_PWR
E. PCIE_PWR_1
F. PCIE_PWR_1

Will be using an EVGA 2000w G+ PSU which has only two EPS(CPU) 8pin (4+4).
Kindly advise how I would connect the C. PCIE_8PIN_PWR socket on the motherboard.

I watched this again. Best presentation and the best product on the market. Thanks. I'll watch CES 2022 today but ZEN3 TR PRO's price is what I want to know. All I ordered last month was Gold plated EK fittings and their angled terminal for the fittings to clear other AICs.

I5⏰4460 BE THAT A BOARD IS OPEN, GOT SOME IDEA IN

To game, I'd use 6900xt because nvidia doesn't have more than a 2 way nv link bridge.

This is exactly what I was looking for!

A resolve machine really needs a decklink card in it, unless you are not doing pro colour correction. The 4k extreme takes two slots. I also have a Dante card for audio, but you may have a fairlight card. Is there still room for the "raid" card? You may also need an actual RAID card or a connector to a raid. I think we still need more slots!