Threadripper yes or no?

[the wopster]

Well played Is your ram 4 sticks? or 2 x 16?

4x8 mate, it worked at its rated speed 3200mhz with my 1700 so hope it will be ok with my TR

 

[C-Roy]

He's talking about Pinnacle Ridge, which is due in April and on 12 nm. "Zen 2" cores on 7 nm, which are expected to feature up to 6 cores per CCX, won't be around until next year.

Ah cheers for the explanation.

 

[HeX]

4x8 mate, it worked at its rated speed 3200mhz with my 1700 so hope it will be ok with my TR

I was just worried you were going to need to get a couple more sticks for that quad channel goodness

 

[the wopster]

I take it liquid metal is ok on threadripper?

 

[HeX]

Yes they are generally good but cut corners for TR unfortunately so not recommended.

Speaking of which EK have just announced a new version of their block and rebates for people who bought the naff version.

https://www.techpowerup.com/241546/...omers-with-re-designed-threadripper-cpu-block

 

[subbytna]

My mrs relented and let me change the chip for a 1920x

MUCH better option. No point going to a 8 core threadripper. If you're going to "Rip" it, then more than 8 cores is the way forward

 

[Mercutio]

MUCH better option. No point going to a 8 core threadripper. If you're going to "Rip" it, then more than 8 cores is the way forward

yup, if I ever went TR, it would probably be to the smallest for the platform benefits on the "cheap".

 

[Curlyriff]

Waiting for Gen2 and 6 core CCX to go Threadripper myself. When that happens in 18 months then I will be looking at finally getting my PC up to date. Although then will be questioning how long till DDR5 or xpoint memory by then.

 

[the wopster]

You might want to check reviews of water blocks too, the EK doesn't review well.

Mate what temps do you see on your chip? I’m seeing 75c @3.8ghz 1.36v and cant get anywhere near 4ghz on my custom loop

 

[Kei]

With 1.35V on my 1920X running at 3.975GHz, my ek block manages to maintain 75 degrees under prime in place fma3 testing. Initially, it was getting up to nearly 90 degrees as the first attempt at applying thermal paste was evidently poor. I used a large blob in the centre of the Z in ryzen on the ihs.

 

[the wopster]

With 1.35V on my 1920X running at 3.975GHz, my ek block manages to maintain 75 degrees under prime in place fma3 testing. Initially, it was getting up to nearly 90 degrees as the first attempt at applying thermal paste was evidently poor. I used a large blob in the centre of the Z in ryzen on the ihs.

I’m at 1.38v trying to get 3.9 stable but falling at the minute, what do you have your soc voltage at? Do you use LLC if you do what setting? I have used the cross method for the paste

 

[Kei]

Vcore is set to 1.325V (custom p-state vid of 24 & fid of 9f)
Vcore soc is set to offset +0.01250V (gives 1.128V)
CPU Vcore LLC is set to low

This is on a gigabyte gaming 7 board.

 

[the wopster]

Vcore is set to 1.325V (custom p-state vid of 24 & fid of 9f)
Vcore soc is set to offset +0.01250V (gives 1.128V)
CPU Vcore LLC is set to low

This is on a gigabyte gaming 7 board.

I think I might have 3.9 stable at 1.38v in the bios, soc is 1.25v and set LLC to auto, max temp was 77c. I’m a little disappointed not to get to 4ghz especially seeing most chips hit 4ghz at 1.35v

 

[sandys]

That 100Mhz will make little to no difference, don't worry about it. I've had mine up to 4.2 and for the extra performance offered up it's not really worth it, I just leave it at 3.9 with sensible temps and volts.

 

[the wopster]

That 100Mhz will make little to no difference, don't worry about it. I've had mine up to 4.2 and for the extra performance offered up it's not really worth it, I just leave it at 3.9 with sensible temps and volts.

What are your stress temps at 3.9?

 

[Caracus2k]

If you have to ask on a computer forum if a threadripper CPU is for you or not the answer is almost a certainly "no".......

Same goes for some of Intel's more expensive offerings

 

[gupsterg]

@woppy101

Reading your past posts I think you have XSPC Raystorm Neo Threadripper block, seems your temps are high at stock. I had EK TR block on a TR 1950X and now Bykski, some info in this thread.