You don't need to spend £650 for a decent TRX40 board. Asus shows how. AMD released 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in November 2019 to general performance acclaim. Boasting up to 32 cores and 64 threads at launch from the 3970X, we'll see a 64C128T monster next month.

These new chips and associated TRX40 platform is not for the light of wallet. The cheapest processor chimes in at £1,249, rising to £3,990 for the big beastie, while motherboards begin at £400 and financially escalate very quickly.

That said, most of the motherboard's goodness emanates from the chipset, so is there really a need to spend, say, £700 on a board? To that end, we're taking a look at the Asus Prime TRX40-Pro, priced at a more approachable £400, making it the joint-cheapest board available.