So it has been a while since I posted in here, figured I would drop in and give some insight for those looking at these processors and the different boards as they go EOL for the 3xx0 series releases. We are at like 15 months of ownership and I am seeing the wear on the VRM section without a doubt. The BIOS updates have brought my CPU voltage way down however so it somewhat balances out in the long run. Without a doubt I cannot recommend anything with the standard 60A and 8 phase design for overclocking a 2990WX. AVX load and 4.1ghz easily overloads the VRM section. Without at minimum active cooling the VRM section cooler becomes too hot to touch. On an interesting note you can actually hear the VRM section go into low power mode when it flips between 4.1ghz and 55x mhz as safeties built into the motherboard hit. With the VRM section temperature dropped with cold air coming across it (40F actively cooled) I can get the chip a lot higher clock wise with the current BIOS. A proper VRM section could have the better binned chips to at least 4.3 all cores.With some very heavy CPU tweaking this is what I found to be the max 24/7 stable setting I could pull of assuming I could keep the VRM section cool. Very good performing combo when combined with b-die. There is a lot more ability left in this ram I have not had a chance to even push it yet. I could easily have another 300-500 points locked away in that.I do hope to see a TRX40 MATX board to replace my current setup when the time comes, but am not holding my breath.