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That gigabyte looks VERY nice!
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Threadripper on Zen+ 32 Cores - Launching Q3 2018
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That gigabyte looks VERY nice!
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Gaming 7 made my eyes hurt . when your about to clock off work and boss wants the finished design but you havent started and have 10 mins left to spare... haha
nod to asus zenith for IR design- but thinking the extra cooling kit will hurt potential new sales - could have easily rolled out a Zenith Formula board to phase out the Zenith version and get some hype etc
MSI turns most heads as their board has had the most extensive upgrade
looks like Rear plate acts as a giant cooler...
https://www.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/Global/KeyFeature/980/images/X399.mp4
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Stupid lights aside I think it looks decent. Nice beefy vrm cooling.
Tons of decent other things on there too like a DAC etc
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Stupid lights aside I think it looks decent. Nice beefy vrm cooling.
Tons of decent other things on there too like a DAC etc
just found video of the cooling design- rear plate as a heatsink pretty much
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If I had a need for a TR then this would be the board for me I think. Bet its a heavy mofo though....
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x470 7 is so yeah- would be hefty- guessing the all are
Snatch- "heavy is good, heavy is reliable . if it does not work, you can always hit them with it..."
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Thanks for that, it'll need to be the Corsair kit then. Which is fine.
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I'm sure at a hardware level the MSI MEG will be the best beast for the 2990WX, but my god does it look ugly. Did somebody drop an angle grinder on the board armour they copied from the Aorus?
But hot damn does that Aorus look good, finally a board in that range which isn't visually repugnant.
But hot damn does that Aorus look good, finally a board in that range which isn't visually repugnant.
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You'll get the full 60 lanes so you'll be able to use lots of drives, cards, etc without any bandwidth issues.
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I've just bought an Oculus Rift to do some gaming on my 2990WX rig.
Is anyone triggered?
Is anyone triggered?
Not sure if Threadripper is the best you can get for VR right now, on an R7 1700 at 3.8Ghz with a Rift when I look at Frametiming in SteamVR it's always the CPU that's lagging behind and this is with an overclocked GTX970. VR needs single core performance.
But if you have other workloads that can stress the many threads and VR is more of an afterthought, then it probably won't be a bad buy.
But if you have other workloads that can stress the many threads and VR is more of an afterthought, then it probably won't be a bad buy.
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Well, I'm starting a PhD in 'Virtual Reality - Integrated Delivery of Education' in October, so I thought I'd best get a VR headset! I have Samsung Gear already but that's not ideal, but I'll probably grab an Oculus Go as well as schools/colleges/universities will probably be attracted to the Go's lower TCO.
As I'll be developing and building VR apps, the system will get plenty of opportunities to stretch it's legs beyond VR content consumption
That's good then, you can just increase the resolution scale in SteamVR (or with the Oculus Tray Tool) to put more stress on the GPU if you check your frametimes and the CPU is getting hit disproportionately. Weirdly enough I get better frametimes when I increase the scaling than when I decrease it (120% for whatever reason rarely goes into reprojection, 80% does).
Tsk tsk, they haven't updated their TDP guide.
https://noctua.at/en/tdp-guide
They still have it labelled with the TDP of the first TR (180W) and not this refresh which is 250W stock.
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It should do seeing as it copes ok with 1920/1950x cpus when overclocked which pull very similar amounts of power to a stock 2990WX. I know my 1920x pulls around 240W when overclocked to 4GHz on all cores at 1.325V. I have my doubts about them coping quite so well with over 300W.
As to gaming performance, I've not found anything that doesn't run well enough on mine. The only oddity I ever found was in 3dmark firestrike where the combined score would be absolutely awful, so bad in fact that it would pull the overall score down further than running the cpu in gaming mode and taking the hit in the physics test. Weirdly, the 1900x and 1950x do not suffer this issue.
In all other benchmarks and everyday games, it's been great.
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I doubt the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 will handle the 2990WX. I bet it wont be able to handle the 2950X with it's higher clocks.
As I do not see the purpose of buying a £1700 CPU or even a £800 and not going to watercooling.
There is the BEST alternative of custom watercooling performance, ability to expand and dead easy installation, with better performance than AIO.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-MLC Phoenix 360mm Radiator Core-Module= £129.95
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-MLC Phoenix Threadripper CPU Module - sTR4= £54.95
Total: £184.90 (includes shipping: £0.00)
Having changed my Predator 360 to Z370I monoblock and Bysksi GPU block, still using the QDC, I can tell you is very easy to swap things without the need to drain loops, etc.
While the performance of the full custom loop is there.
Having changed my Predator 360 to Z370I monoblock and Bysksi GPU block, still using the QDC, I can tell you is very easy to swap things without the need to drain loops, etc.
While the performance of the full custom loop is there.