thesmokingman
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I am in the same situation. Holding off buying 3960X unless I have full coverage AIO. An AIO that covers 100% the CPU wil give superior performance to air cooling. Unfortuantely there are no good ones out there. Enermax one apparently gives excellent temps but QC issues!!! WTF are other AIO companies waiting for?
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I haven't heard of any specific ones with a good track record for Threadripper.
Still undecided on how I will cool the 3960x since according to the reddit thread the AIOs are not much better then the air coolers and they all run hotter then the recommended 68 degrees. Friend is running Noctua air cooler but is in the high 70s for temps Is that fine?
Maybe I should return the 3960x and build a dual epyc 7282 instead? That I know I can cool on air and ram is cheaper and its cheaper over all but it clocks at 2.8 but has 32 cores vs 3.8 of the threadripper 3960 w 24 cores. Afraid of leaks from water cooling.
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Lasting 5 + years doesn't mean I will be using it for work for 5 years. I want something reliable that lasts until I want to upgrade and then some. I still have my dual p3 asus p2b-ds running windows 2000, dual p4 pc-dl running xp I use for old xp games. evga sr2 that sees some use for games if friends are over. This is my first single processor build not using server motherboard.