Threadripper BUILDERS thread

[Fir]

The board suits my purposes fine.
I only have a corsair 115i AIO on hand to use and I believe that's holding the higher oc back.
4GHz is the end of the line for these chips. It may go higher but stability is questionable and it may seem stable but with 16 cores/32 threads it can be challenging to keep the processor busy enough to stress it to show instability. Some are pushing 1.45+ volts. YIKES! If that's your thing and you have a TR4 block designed to cool these chips and can handle TDP values over half a kilowatt then the Zenith is THE board to use as its VRM can handle the power.

It's rare for a CPU to go. I had an Asus Rampage X99 that killed a 5960X due to the BIOS bug that fed the chip over 1.8V on POST! That board still works but has all sorts of issues.

Both of my Zenith boards have cold boot problems when the PSU is turned off they go through a few ON OFF cycles before posting.

Aside from that they are fine.

 

[ajc9988]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAmlKIhPZ4
Asrock review - stole the enthusiast award from the Zenith!

 

[kellym]

The Enermax Liqtech 360 cooler has been doing very well against the Asetek models in the reviews so far. I guess it's not too surprising considering the size of the cold plate.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaRBO1w7erI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2gvwCLzXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b91LC5bV8Vc

 

[ddogg]

So I went into microcenter and got the CPU tested. It booted right up so good news is CPU is good and everything else I have but board went bad. I made the right call just RMAing the board back. Now just have to wait until a replacement arrives.

 

[Reinvented]

So I went into microcenter and got the CPU tested. It booted right up so good news is CPU is good and everything else I have but board went bad. I made the right call just RMAing the board back. Now just have to wait until a replacement arrives.

So, you didn't try to pull the CMOS battery and all that?

 

[ddogg]

So, you didn't try to pull the CMOS battery and all that?

I did and it didn't do anything.

 

[Reinvented]

I did and it didn't do anything.

Sorry to hear that. Seen some good results from draining and clearing cmos and removing battery. Hopefully you get up and running again soon. I'm currently playing around with my board, and setup my old MSI B350 w/1600X while I wait for my RGB memory and X370 to come back.

 

[hasta666]

My 128 Gb RAM are up and running without a problem, as expected/hoped.

 

[Fir]

My 128 Gb RAM are up and running without a problem, as expected/hoped.

Me too. No problems here. Smooth sailing at 3.8GHz 1.275V. Load in the low 50s with Corsair H115i. Was going to get the Enermax TR4 but why bother at this point?

 

[Chaotic42]

My 128 Gb RAM are up and running without a problem, as expected/hoped.

What board?

 

[urvile]

Well, I got a one click overclock going with the latest MSI bios @ 2800Mhz. It seems my time spy score went up by ~3000 points and now it's in the 99th percentile instead of the 98th.

 

[hasta666]

What board?

Fatal1ty.

 

[eek2121]

So I'm trying to figure out an issue, and I wanted to make sure it wasn't related to overclocking. However, I cannot get my CPU to run at 3.4 GHz. When it boots up into Windows it instantly goes to 3.7 ghz on all cores. Does anyone else get this behavior? I've reset to bios defaults. Ryzen Master is installed, but does not run at startup unless they installed some service (haven't looked)

 

[Gator762]

Howdy! I'm jumping in as I really want to build a Threadripper system. But I've gotten bummed about the memory speed deal and higher capacity (want 64 GB).

I've read through all 39 pages here. I'm willing to drop over $700 on mem, if it will work. Getting the manufacturers to say so is like pulling teeth which has me nervous about pulling the trigger.

The system will be for 3D rendering, content creation, and gaming. What I run at needs to be stable (currently I have a i7 6700k running 3200MHz mem at 3200 CL16). The 64 PCI lanes is what's really attractive to me about Threadripper. I'll have two Titan X Pascal cards in it, and probably a 1050 or 1060 for desktop & monitors plugged into it.

From reading elsewhere and here, looks like can't expect the memory much past 3200 MHz and be stable (I know a few of you guys got past that, including Markfw that's hit 3600). So, my target is 3200 with CL14. I don't quite understand why it's harder to hit the higher frequencies with higher capacity chips. Here's the Trident-Z memory I had my eye on:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232289

I got an email back from G.Skill recommending 32 GB - 32 GB isn't quite enough. 48 GB would be, but if I'm going to occupy all the slots with this multi-tasking beast of a CPU I'd rather do 64GB (or 4x16). Would that probably work?

 

[Markfw]

Howdy! I'm jumping in as I really want to build a Threadripper system. But I've gotten bummed about the memory speed deal and higher capacity (want 64 GB).

I've read through all 39 pages here. I'm willing to drop over $700 on mem, if it will work. Getting the manufacturers to say so is like pulling teeth which has me nervous about pulling the trigger.

The system will be for 3D rendering, content creation, and gaming. What I run at needs to be stable (currently I have a i7 6700k running 3200MHz mem at 3200 CL16). The 64 PCI lanes is what's really attractive to me about Threadripper. I'll have two Titan X Pascal cards in it, and probably a 1050 or 1060 for desktop & monitors plugged into it.

From reading elsewhere and here, looks like can't expect the memory much past 3200 MHz and be stable (I know a few of you guys got past that, including Markfw that's hit 3600). So, my target is 3200 with CL14. I don't quite understand why it's harder to hit the higher frequencies with higher capacity chips. Here's the Trident-Z memory I had my eye on:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232289

I got an email back from G.Skill recommending 32 GB - 32 GB isn't quite enough. 48 GB would be, but if I'm going to occupy all the slots with this multi-tasking beast of a CPU I'd rather do 64GB (or 4x16). Would that probably work?

So, on my memory, I never ran memtest, I just ran at rated 3600. But every 2-3 days, it would get an error. So I set the 3600 CL16 memory to 3200 CL14, and its been over a week with no issues. If you truly want stability, especially with 64 gig, get 3600 CL16 and run it at 3200 CL14 like me. And use 8 of what I have, or 4 kits:https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232194, thats about $720, but 4 x 16 gig may be cheaper.

 

[ajc9988]

So rads came in. Parts will pour in over until Wednesday. Now just waiting on the shipment of the raystorm neo.

 

[Gator762]

Hmm, looks like the smaller modules are a little faster.

They have a 64 GB kit, 8x8GB, CL 16:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232583
All the 4x16GB kits are CL17
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820232452
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820232452
OOH! This is tempting, would save me $100 bucks. 3200 MHz CL14 8x8GB kit
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232347

 

[Reinvented]

Hmm, looks like the smaller modules are a little faster.

They have a 64 GB kit, 8x8GB, CL 16:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232583
All the 4x16GB kits are CL17
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820232452
OOH! This is tempting, would save me $100 bucks. 3200 MHz CL14 8x8GB kit
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232347

The last set you linked is guaranteed Samsung B-dies. I recommend those. Or if you are into the whole RGB thing, go with the Trident Z RGB CL14 stuff. In my opinion though, I'm pretty sure it's going to end up having relaxed timings anyway with all slots populated and run at 2T command rate, so in order to get the BEST clocks, you're going to have to ease up on the timings and speed anyway and might as well get higher speed binned dimm's along with relaxed timings for best compatibility.

 

[Gator762]

Don't really care about the RGB, especially not for the price difference.

That last kit is guaranteed Samsung B-die. Nice. I noticed that they have the 3200 MHz CL14 with the 16 GB modules too. These would also be Samsung B-die?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820232349

Besides expand ability, I'd be better off with less modules, right? All the 3600 are CL17, and about $800.

 

[Reinvented]

Don't really care about the RGB, especially not for the price difference.

That last kit is guaranteed Samsung B-die. Nice. I noticed that they have the 3200 MHz CL14 with the 16 GB modules too. These would also be Samsung B-die?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820232349

Besides expand ability, I'd be better off with less modules, right? All the 3600 are CL17, and about $800.

Yes, those are B-die as well. I'm not sure about the 16GB dimm's, but I know the 8GB ones are for sure are. They SHOULD be, since they are super low latency like that.

 

[Markfw]

Or these ? I can't tell the difference https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232208

 

[Gator762]

I think that's just a different color.

 

[ddogg]

My replacement ASrock board is coming in this Monday. Will be nice to have a proper working system once again. Hopefully this one lasts longer than the last one

 

[Gator762]

Yeah, I remember reading about your board dying. Really sucks. Good luck on the new one.

 

[Gator762]

Wow, it's been 3 weeks and still no 1900x reviews. I have been a bit tempted to save money with it, as with most of my use all the PCI lanes will be biggest benefit - two video cards at x16 and the tertiary card still at x8, and still all the lanes for M2 storage. There's a little trade off, as a few apps I use the most rely more on core speed, then a few others used less often will use most or all the cores.

Anyone running a 1900x, or 1920x vs the 1950x? Word when they came out is the first two should be more overclockable with less cores pumping out heat. Of course, if the difference isn't much, it's very tempting to just get the 1950x and have a beast.