I’m in the same boat. I’ll be buying my parts next month with the 9950x3d, and I’ve been following this thread for over a month now. I really, really wanted to buy this board, the dynamic dashboard is such a great feature, but I feel like MSI isn’t committed to acknowledging its problem or fixing it.
It’s a shame. My goal was to build an all MSI setup, but it looks like I’ll have to go with the Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme board instead of this one.
I’ll keep following this thread until I buy a board, but I doubt anything will change in the next few weeks.
Thank you for reading and discuss on the thing, and im waiting too for the 9950x3D.
What is certain, is that MSI must be present, at least to say something reassuring about the obvious problem, and fix it on time for all!
1000$ or 1000€ is not an accessible price for anyone, someone maybe can afford it with less pain, but i think the majority of users will think more than two times on this kind of price for a MotherBoard, and is simply unacceptable that also show off huge defects like this one, with in facts the ability to do nothing from user side to resolve and use the item that he paid for.
Well, the Dynamic Dashboard in my case is just a thing, yes, is really familiar because it is present in my old and actually active Z390 Godlike, it is in a reduced form, with a tiny OLED display (They may also use OLED too in this new X870E model instead of a normal IPS looking the price, but that is not the point)
In the truth, is possible to realize a personal LCD Display, with even more shown parameters using Aida64, and is also not expensive, just, is not a ready thing, and is a thing that require to be programmed and prepared... Probally it use more CPU, but when we have 16 cores i think is not a real matter.
The real cause that make me point to this board is mainly the quality and features.
Just to say, it is a 10 layer board, and is more like a server board, all the others are 8 layers.
And as this feature there are others ones, like the number of CPU power phases, that is superior than any other board, again, the middle 8x PCEe slot, that will alow me to install a dedicated audio card, without mess up with the GPU PCI Lanes.
There are so a lot of features that are superior than other boards, this Dynamic Dashboard is just one of them, and honestly is not the most important one, but the issue it have is really bound with a lot of things, such the ability to power on the system, and the stability of the OS, compromised by the continuous disconnect and reconnect of that thing.
Another thing i not really get is, why they did it detachable if it provides some basic functions like powering on the system?
From what i heard, there is not a click or a feedback to know if the device is well attacked, for how i know, the contacts could be not perfectly aligned, specially with the force applied from the connected cables, and they could generate a short circuit, or something like that, maybe was better if was a fixed device? Cannot really know, are just consideretions.
