Comments on: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro Hits Retail Availability and an ASUS Update

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 13 May 2021 07:32:35 +0000

I am an experienced builder and I just spent 2 weeks trying to get a Threadripper Pro build to work with the ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI. Either I picked up 2 bad boards, or the memory support on this thing is atrocious. The memory listed on Asus’s QVL is EXTREMELY limited, barely exists and has slow timings. In the end I tried 4 different brands of RAM including one that Crucial’s website lists specifically for this board/chip – still didn’t work. The first day it powered up and I installed windows using some Trident-Z but it kept powering off on me randomly and giving me the RAM error QLED. Then, I couldn’t get past RAM error QLED beyond day 1 – even after replacing the RAM repeatedly, the board, the processor, even the power supply! If the memory truely IS this picky, I don’t want it. Everything is packed up and ready to return to Microcenter tomorrow. Very disappointing. I hope someone from ASUS reads this.

By: domih

domih — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:58:49 +0000

@kal my workstation is currently:

ASUSTeK model: ROG ZENITH II EXTREME v: Rev 1.xx
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Intel I211
Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
Aquantia AQC107
Mellanox MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
SSD 970 PRO 1TB
HGST (Hitachi) HUH721010ALE604

No notable issue here.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ASUS+boards+can+be+problematic+with+Linux does not show any major red flag.

So I’m pretty the Asus, AsRock, Gigabyte and MSI of the world have an OK Linux support.

All other things being equal, it is not so much the brand of the mobo but rather which chips are on it.

IMHO, the only road block you can reach is a chipset so new that the Linux driver is “so so”.

Unrelated example: the Realtek RTL8125B driver is still in the process of eliminating its kinks… but I have working systems with version r8125-9.003.05 and ASPM disable. Versions r8125-9.004.01 and r8125-9.005.01 show abnormal CPU usage.

By: kal

kal — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:46:01 +0000

@Domih Hi thanks. However, my question is about general linux support for the mainboard, not only for the WIFI device (sorry for the confusion, the board has WIFI in its name). I have read that some ASUS boards can be problematic with Linux and this board specifically doesn’t list Linux as a supported platform. It would be useful to get some verification that this board will work on linux without major issues.

By: Domih

Domih — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:05:04 +0000

@kal mobo manual says the wifi chipset is an Intel AX200. Google for “Intel ax200 linux”, you’ll quickly find the Intel page for the driver. So either you use a distro which already has it in the upstream, either you find a DKMS .deb or .rpm or … for your distro and if none exists you build from source. I had to do the latter for about a year with an early X570 mobo. No big deal, you just to rebuild each time the kernel gets updated (if not A DKMS install of the driver from source). Anyway, I believe the ax200 is already in the upstream kernels. HTH.

By: kal

kal — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:39:30 +0000

Do you know anything about Linux support for the ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI? The ASUS website only lists Windows as a supported platform.

By: emerth

emerth — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:33:00 +0000

@nasi – OK, thanks. I’ve never run into that sort of use case. Thanks for pointing it out!