Comments on: Gigabyte MZ72-HB0 Review Dual AMD EPYC Motherboard with 10GbE

By: Andy Kim

Andy Kim — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:51:19 +0000

I bought this board. Everything is fine except the boot loop. So if I reset, reboot or power cycle, the mobo boots up for 8 seconds and then cuts off the power. Then it tries to boot up again for another 8 seconds. This keeps happening over and over again and it wont boot up the OS.
However if I shut it down and remove the power cable / switch off the PSU for 5-10 minutes, then it can boot up properly again.
Has anyone experienced this issue? I have tried adjusting the BIOS, upgraded BMC and BIOS to latest version.

By: mirrormax

mirrormax — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:10:38 +0000

Sona.de has the board in europe, got mine there a few months ago and have been using it as a workstation board and its been very good.
Id like to see some more workstation related benchmarks, there’s seems to be quite a few people using epyc/rome boards for workstations in the forums.

Small error in the review, theres 100 lanes available not 88, and 128 used between cpus, for a total of 228/256 used(according to anandtech theres actually 129 for each cpu, four extra lanes for the bmc). Would be interesting to see a comparison if you review the coming asrock ROME2D16-2T board that only uses 92 lanes between cpus, to see if there’s much performance difference. That board has a few more pcie lanes available and 5 x16 slots and two m.2 slots so maybe even better as a workstation board.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:51:16 +0000

I can never find a retailer for the newer AMD Gigabyte server boards. Any suggestions?

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 16:07:45 +0000

Interested in building a computer for CFD. Would it be possible to start off with one cpu and set of memory and have it run, then upgrade with a second cpu later?

By: Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:52:44 +0000

In reply to erik.

Hi erik – We typically do not publish temps as you would see on a consumer site. Most of these boards utilize chassis cooling and PWM fan control so there is not as much of an issue as we see on the consumer side.

Frankly, temps are an almost irrelevant point of differentiation with the H11DSi since the H11DSi is a PCIe Gen3 motherboard while this is a PCIe Gen4 board. To most, the ability to support PCIe Gen4 v. Gen3 is the significantly more important point of differentiation.

By: erik

erik — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:48:15 +0000

nice review, but i am missing the temps of the components during the test so we can compare with supermicro h11dsi