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Here's a 3970x in my hands at home.... oh man the power in this box. But sigh......... this is not my property and it must be shipped to its owner tomorrow.
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I'm surprised microcenter got them today and amazon / newegg didn't list any for sale yet.
They must because the one near me doesn't seem to be having much of a problem getting them.Microcenter must have a very special arrangement direct with AMD. My guy there tells me they UPS the chips to them.
They must because the one near me doesn't seem to be having much of a problem getting them.
I am very tempted to build a 3950x. Do I need it? Nope. My 7820x is no slouch still but I am redoing my system/water cooling. With a 3950x I doubt I will have to upgrade for at least 5 years.
Other then I had to delid it and stuff to get temps under control it really has been a great cpu.I owned a 7820x its a really really good CPU. Sometimes I regret selling it. I would probably have just now sold it to get something else.
Considering the store closed 6 minutes ago, I find their preparation lacking
Congrats on your new beast!~
I've had more fitment issues with this build than in the past.
I did get the Be Cool Dark Rock Pro TR4 cooler, as a stopgap, but the heat sink fins block all but one RAM slot and the sticks I got (Corsair Dominator Platinum) are too tall. So, I need to find another cooler. I am definitely starting to realize that TR builds do not afford quite the same variety of cooling solutions that I enjoyed in the past, particularly in drive-to-store-and-get-something-decent scenarios.
To be honest AMD has always said that threadripper is built for water cooling. That said, I dont consider an AIO watercooling for reasons outside of while scope of the thread, they do include asetek adaptors in the box.
There are a few air coolers out there most notable one is the huge Noctua behemoth and the Coolermaster Air cooler the wraithripper.
But yeah options are limited outside of custom loop arrangements.
More than twice as quick vs a Dual E5-2690v4 for what I need it to do.
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Haven't touched the bios yet.
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*Obviously not done building it yet.
Wish I would have bought some AMD stock few months ago.
Nice!More than twice as quick vs a Dual E5-2690v4 for what I need it to do.
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Haven't touched the bios yet.
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*Obviously not done building it yet.
Wish I would have bought some AMD stock few months ago.
Hahaha what the hell scale is that. But why didn't you get an i3? It's faster on loserbenchmark than anything from AMD lolI know this benchmark software sucks, but I find it funny I broke their scale after playing a bit with bios settings (memory)...
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Odds of finding a 3950x or 3960/70 if I make a 4hr drive to Houston micro center never been to one before
I am about to put my 3960x system together, its going to be custom rigid tubing water cooled but before I do all the wc stuff I want to boot it up, install windows to make sure I don't have any hardware issues etc.. What is a cheap temporary recommended cooler I can throw on it for that?
Any AIO that's 2x120 more.
AMD HD 5750 (spare parts)Nice!
What GPU is that? Quadro or something? Looks old school.
Anyone know if these new trx40 boards need both of these connected to boot?
2 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connectors
I've got a new 1300w seasonic prime on the way and wondering if I should just hold off building it till it arrives since the motherboard will probably arrive a few days sooner. My Older board and psu only has one of those hookups.
You absolutely need them. They are the only source of 12v feeding the VRMs.
Initial run just to make sure it's all working properly, under the cpu-z stress test after ~10 minutes it's 64C max with an h100i platinum, holding 4.05-4.1 all core. I don't have an aggressive fan curve, it starts to ramp once coolant temp goes over 30C and goes to max at 35C. Coolant is holding around 34C, so I could run a little cooler if I wanted more agressive fans, but honestly I might turn them down a bit and shoot for 70-75C as that's not anywhere near hot. I think the recommendation of 280mm AIO is more than a little overkill, tbh. Idle is in mid 30's, runs about 5C hotter at idle and 15C hotter under load vs. the 3700X I replaced. Per hwinfo, core 0 hitting peak 4.725 and core 1 hitting 4.7 under single core loads. When running CB15 single core it's staying on those 2 cores and bouncing around between 4.575 and 4.65. CB15 is 212 single and 4067 multi.
https://valid.x86.fr/h7qdzl
Bob,
The recommendation is based on ol TR1 and 2. The new 7nm super cherry picked dies are really showing they run very cool. My 60x is surprisingly cool. I have yet to hit 70c even on a prime 95 avx2 load.
Going through some of the 3970x reviews in davinci resolve an overclocked 2080ti was the bottleneck lol.
Growing increasingly frustrated with B&H. Original anticipated ship date was December 6th. Got an email from them today, dared get my hopes up, but it was just a survey request regarding "how they are doing". Yeah, I'll hold off and answer that one when I find out just how they did.
Meanwhile I'm continuing to monitor Newegg and Amazon. Availability pops up on Newegg from time to time, only to disappear in a minute. It has an uncanny way of showing up when I can't act on it (in a meeting, sleeping, driving to work, taking a shower, etc.)
Initial run just to make sure it's all working properly, under the cpu-z stress test after ~10 minutes it's 64C max with an h100i platinum, holding 4.05-4.1 all core. I don't have an aggressive fan curve, it starts to ramp once coolant temp goes over 30C and goes to max at 35C. Coolant is holding around 34C, so I could run a little cooler if I wanted more agressive fans, but honestly I might turn them down a bit and shoot for 70-75C as that's not anywhere near hot. I think the recommendation of 280mm AIO is more than a little overkill, tbh. Idle is in mid 30's, runs about 5C hotter at idle and 15C hotter under load vs. the 3700X I replaced. Per hwinfo, core 0 hitting peak 4.725 and core 1 hitting 4.7 under single core loads. When running CB15 single core it's staying on those 2 cores and bouncing around between 4.575 and 4.65. CB15 is 212 single and 4067 multi.
https://valid.x86.fr/h7qdzl