Finally have the 1950x

tangoseal

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Ok finally got the thing. Now the fun begins. There is much more not pictured that is to be included in this build like an Xspc Raystorm Threadripper block my Asus Poseidon 1080ti etc.. I'll update with a pic once built. And some benches of my own as well. I'm interested in how ram speed scales on these barge sized processors so I will do some testing with that.

 
Nice. I'm running thru numbers and configs in my head to put a 1950x setup together too. Can't wait to see what you achieve, gl.
 
PMed you my address to send it to, thanks!

J/K looks real solid and can't wait to see your finished build/numbers!
 
Same board and processor I am running. The MSI board seems pretty good thus far. Easy to OC and stable for the last 24 hours. Good luck on your build!

Edit: Just noticed you are doing a 570X and HD120 RGB fans. Just ordered that today :) I am currently running a Phantek Enthoo Evolv and the poor airflow is killing me with the OC/voltage on the 1950x. Hoping the Corsair case will do the trick.
 
How are the vrms and power delivery system on this board? I have the X370 version and it's terrible. I'm looking to rma as soon as I get a new mobo, but I'm still undecided on which x399 board to buy.
 
No real complaints on the VRMs. Voltage is stable across all the rails even with the OC applied. Wish the VRMs had some additional passive heatpipe cooling (Gigabyte) or active cooling (Asus Zenith), but so far nothing has exploded.
 
No real complaints on the VRMs. Voltage is stable across all the rails even with the OC applied. Wish the VRMs had some additional passive heatpipe cooling (Gigabyte) or active cooling (Asus Zenith), but so far nothing has exploded.
I'm going to put a 40mm fan on my heatsink and it will.probably be better than a heatpipe. I just forgot to buy it when I was in Microcenter.

Also 960 pro SSD wont show in the mobo explorer feature. You also have you reset bios if you add a m.2 device each time or move it
 
Also wondering if it will handle 8 sticks of DDR4-3200+ ram. It would be nice to see a x399 owner go all out in that matter and report back.
 
I'm going to put a 40mm fan on my heatsink and it will.probably be better than a heatpipe. I just forgot to buy it when I was in Microcenter.

I may consider it. At full load and OC applied the VRMs are running around 91C.
 
Also wondering if it will handle 8 sticks of DDR4-3200+ ram. It would be nice to see a x399 owner go all out in that matter and report back.

I am running 32 GB of G.Skill RGB @ 3000. It is 3000 rated. It was on sale for $274.99 at Newegg when I bought it. If it goes on sale again I might get another set and go 64GB even though I have ZERO need for that much RAM. All of my workstation loads, 70% Video Render/Edit/Transcoding, 20% gaming, 10% whatever else, fits in 32GB with spare left over.

Looks like it is back over $300.00 again. Might get another set if it goes on sale.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232499
 
I'm in too with the same MSI board and starting to put together the 1950X system tonight. The CPU box is ridiculously large standing at 1/3 the height of a full tower case! Thanks for the tip on the 960 pro!
91C on the VRMs seems a bit warm. I'll be interested to see how folks cool that off a bit.
 
I'm in too with the same MSI board and starting to put together the 1950X system tonight. The CPU box is ridiculously large standing at 1/3 the height of a full tower case! Thanks for the tip on the 960 pro!
91C on the VRMs seems a bit warm. I'll be interested to see how folks cool that off a bit.

Well he is overclocking. I would think with a small 40 or 60mm fan blowing on it, it should be significantly cooler. The heatsink is rather large. Also the heatsink extends on the back of the board so maybe a fan that blows on the side, back and directly on the heatsink all at once?
 
Ugghhh got it all built and can't get freaking windows 10 to get past the big ass windows icon during initial setup sigh .... keyboard and mouse lights are going off and thats it. Its probably something to do with my installer.... i'll figure it out I guess sometime soon. Nothing but issue after issue with this damn new platform go figure.

If I put the system in WIndows 10 WHQL mode it doesn't detect my nvme ... so I have to turn that crap off to get the nvme to be seen. ugghh
 
I shouldnt have too but I will look into doing it if the media creation tool from my Surface Book doesn't produce a good image. I was using an image from 2016 I had my USB stick.
 
I used to create windows images at my old employer. People complained about their x370 boards initially not seeing nvme drives, but I slipstreamed all drivers (chipset, nvme, video, audio and nic) and I was able to install Windows 10 on my evo 960 without problems. Try the latest build of win10: http://windowsiso.net/windows-10-is...0-creators-update-1703-iso-download-standard/ and windows adk: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-assessment-deployment-kit. You definitely don't want to use an older build.
 
Ugghhh got it all built and can't get freaking windows 10 to get past the big ass windows icon during initial setup sigh .... keyboard and mouse lights are going off and thats it. Its probably something to do with my installer.... i'll figure it out I guess sometime soon. Nothing but issue after issue with this damn new platform go figure.

If I put the system in WIndows 10 WHQL mode it doesn't detect my nvme ... so I have to turn that crap off to get the nvme to be seen. ugghh

I had the exact same problem too. I realized I was trying to use the anniversary edition of Windows 10 and not the creator's edition. Once I created a new USB stick with the creator's build ISO it worked like a champ. Not sure what the difference is, but it clearly wants the very latest version of Win 10.
 
I had the exact same problem too. I realized I was trying to use the anniversary edition of Windows 10 and not the creator's edition. Once I created a new USB stick with the creator's build ISO it worked like a champ. Not sure what the difference is, but it clearly wants the very latest version of Win 10.

Yup, I used my Surface Book to generate a new image becuase it is creators and it worked 100% fine! I am running windows 10 now. Just still installed Drivers etc... had to take a few hours break for a drunk friend that was being crazy.
 
Here it is in 80% of its glory. I will be adding a water block and hard piping my gpu and gpu to the tri 120 radiator in the front of the case and removing the AIO.

HDR photo:
 
So I am regularly posting 28-2900's in Cinebench. It is def a F'ing retarded fast chip on Multithreaded. I cant wait to get a water block and get this thing on a real loop. These AIOs suck for this big monster.

I can't tell the difference in day to day so far from my 1700x which is to be expected however, GOOD GOD when I do a multi-threaded app that is designed for MOAR COARS!!!! Holy Sheeite!
 
I am running 32 GB of G.Skill RGB @ 3000. It is 3000 rated. It was on sale for $274.99 at Newegg when I bought it. If it goes on sale again I might get another set and go 64GB even though I have ZERO need for that much RAM. All of my workstation loads, 70% Video Render/Edit/Transcoding, 20% gaming, 10% whatever else, fits in 32GB with spare left over.

Looks like it is back over $300.00 again. Might get another set if it goes on sale.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232499
Yeah but just because you’re good at 32Gigs doesn’t mean 64 gigs wouldn’t be even [H]arder
 
Have you tried handbrake yet? Encode some x264 to x265?

A single handbrake instance doing a 1080p encode to HEVC won't saturate the processor. Clearly a threading limitation of x265. So, I run two instances of Handbrake simultaneously converting blu-ray's to HEVC (CRF 19, Medium preset) at ~20fps each. On a single job I can get ~27-30fps avg with a CPU utilization of ~65%. So, I figure two at once is a better use of the processor even if each job is slower, but overall throughput is higher.
 
A single handbrake instance doing a 1080p encode to HEVC won't saturate the processor. Clearly a threading limitation of x265. So, I run two instances of Handbrake simultaneously converting blu-ray's to HEVC (CRF 19, Medium preset) at ~20fps each. On a single job I can get ~27-30fps avg with a CPU utilization of ~65%. So, I figure two at once is a better use of the processor even if each job is slower, but overall throughput is higher.

I also notice that Handbrake (current version) is not maximizing the threads available to it. It is only using maybe 75% of the thread's capacity.
 
I also notice that Handbrake (current version) is not maximizing the threads available to it. It is only using maybe 75% of the thread's capacity.

There is a video quality issue with too many threads versus the vertical resolution so the encoders cap the thread count. 4K content should be able to maximize the 32 threads offered by the 1950x.
 
There is a video quality issue with too many threads versus the vertical resolution so the encoders cap the thread count. 4K content should be able to maximize the 32 threads offered by the 1950x.

Ah ha Thanks. I will just cap the threads at around 16 or 20 for less than 4k content using Process Lasso.
 
So after much evaluation I have concluded.... I absolutely MUST have a waterblock before I am willing to pound on all 16 cores. My CPU temps are hovering around 70c doing heavy video work. The chip is being cooled by a 2x120 Thermaltake water 3.0 AIO. IT certainly can't handle the heat output of this chip the way I would like it. I have paid attention to all the various application of thermal material testing video by Gamers Nexus.

So I am just reporting that after Downcoreing to 8 cores and disabling SMT in bios my chip doesn't surpass 49c during the heaviest loads. This is a very good temp to make me feel comfortable until I get a waterblock on this board. I am really hoping for a monoblock solution at some point. I just seen Kyles unboxing of the Raystorm NEO and I am really waiting on his temperature results to come out as well buy one.
 
So after much evaluation I have concluded.... I absolutely MUST have a waterblock before I am willing to pound on all 16 cores. My CPU temps are hovering around 70c doing heavy video work. The chip is being cooled by a 2x120 Thermaltake water 3.0 AIO. IT certainly can't handle the heat output of this chip the way I would like it. I have paid attention to all the various application of thermal material testing video by Gamers Nexus.

So I am just reporting that after Downcoreing to 8 cores and disabling SMT in bios my chip doesn't surpass 49c during the heaviest loads. This is a very good temp to make me feel comfortable until I get a waterblock on this board. I am really hoping for a monoblock solution at some point. I just seen Kyles unboxing of the Raystorm NEO and I am really waiting on his temperature results to come out as well buy one.

I am running 3.9ghz on all 16 cores @ 1.275. Using a Corsair H100i v2 and running two simultaneous HEVC encodes my processor hovers around 78C. It is still well within operating limits and that is fine by me.
 
I am running 3.9ghz on all 16 cores @ 1.275. Using a Corsair H100i v2 and running two simultaneous HEVC encodes my processor hovers around 78C. It is still well within operating limits and that is fine by me.

I guess I have been custom looped for a decade and to me anything over 55C is a scorching inferno lol.... my fears are unfounded I know but I have been brain warped by the absolutely beauty of custom loop numbers.
 
I also notice that Handbrake (current version) is not maximizing the threads available to it. It is only using maybe 75% of the thread's capacity.
As noted in our Threadripper review, HandBrake starts falling off after 8 cores.
 
I guess I have been custom looped for a decade and to me anything over 55C is a scorching inferno lol.... my fears are unfounded I know but I have been brain warped by the absolutely beauty of custom loop numbers.

I understand completely. I ran a custom loop on my 5960x for quite a while so I understand that seeing numbers like 78C is insanity, but that being said this chip is going to be hot. Once OC'ed it is going to be a scorcher even on a custom loop if you really try to ramp it up above 4ghz. I have a feeling you are probably going to need to get used to higher numbers than you are used to if you really want to squeeze performance out of it.
 
I guess I have been custom looped for a decade and to me anything over 55C is a scorching inferno lol.... my fears are unfounded I know but I have been brain warped by the absolutely beauty of custom loop numbers.
I have a feeling if that is your limit, you might not comfortable with Threadripper. :)
 
I got an EK XE480 for it and another 480 for mah gpu. My rads are ready, now for the blocks to come in stock. I figured out how to stuff 20-24 3.5in drives into my Core X9, so now I'm all set.
 
I got an EK XE480 for it and another 480 for mah gpu. My rads are ready, now for the blocks to come in stock. I figured out how to stuff 20-24 3.5in drives into my Core X9, so now I'm all set.

I opted to use the Corsair 570x Glass Case thus eliminating any chance of internally using my 4x120mm Radiator which has ample cooling power for my 1080ti and Threadripper. I am now going to use my Triple Radiator and Double Radiator in series to offer more than enough cooling for the GPU and CPU. I am in the same boat as you just waiting on a full cover cpu block that covers the whole heatspreader. They should be out next week hopefully. Kyle just got one from XSPC that looks really nice. I think he should be posting actual temp numbers soon.
 
me thinks i will need to wait for thread ripper v 2.0 on a new process for (hopefully) lower power consumption and TDPs because I can't afford to role a custom w/c setup just to have a setup that is relatively quiet but also overclockable.
 
Let's ask applejacks. I think he is building one monster.

I read your request for me to use Boinc etc... I have been so busy with work and getting this system dialed in so far that I literally forgot to respond. It is interesting to me and if it brings gain to [H] and Kyle's team I am all about it. Well def talk about it soon. I have no idea how to get started and I am sure you guys can point me in the direction. But yes there is an asinine of amount of computational power for a desktop product in these chips.
 
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