Full featured board with more gizmos than you can shake a stick at

I got it and all I can say is it's a beautiful board that's feature rich

Combined with the Threadripper 1950X CPU with 16 cores and 32 threads, this allows for more feature rich functionality and expandability

The lights are a nice feature you can play with using the Asus Aurasync software

I don't want to use only 3 PCIe slots, and I don't want to run unsupported Beta BIOS firmware just to support the core feature of X399 setup - bootable NVMe RAID.Icing on the cake - the 3200

While this is probably the best motherboard you can get for x399, If you are planning on sitting a second generation threadripper to it, you may want to wait for the next model (if there will be one) that supports all the new features inside the new second generation chips