EXPO settings will change all manner of voltages, just like XMP/XMP 2.0 always has (depending on the mobo vendor). It has pretty much always been overclocking. Threadripper has the fuse and it will blow when you enable it. That's all it's really telling you.That means if i use EXPO settings i essentially invalidate my Warranty, making threadripper just a glorified EPYC if you want to hold onto your warranty.
EXPO settings will change all manner of voltages, just like XMP/XMP 2.0 always has (depending on the mobo vendor). It has pretty much always been overclocking. Threadripper has the fuse and it will blow when you enable it. That's all it's really telling you.
Which begs the question, do you really want to overclock it? With 4 channels, it's roughly DDR5-9600 in terms of bandwidth already and that seems plenty.I need to do more research on how to overclock Threadripper, because it seems they do run very hot, and Jay2Cents along with Gamers Nexus has them pulling 600W once u unlock that PDO.
this heatsink wont fit his threadripper.You should try this: I have not installed it yet on my 9654 96 core, but from benchmarks on the web, it should do well.
then this one:this heatsink wont fit his threadripper.
the one you linked is for SP5 only. only for EPYC Genoa/Bergamo/Turin.
threadripper is smaller like the SP3 size, even on the zen4 threadrippers. he needs the "4U-M" model.
Which begs the question, do you really want to overclock it? With 4 channels, it's roughly DDR5-9600 in terms of bandwidth already and that seems plenty.
I don't have a Threadripper, but I am thinking it should be as easy as this:I need to do more research on how to overclock Threadripper, because it seems they do run very hot, and Jay2Cents along with Gamers Nexus has them pulling 600W once u unlock that PDO.
I don't have a Threadripper, but I am thinking it should be as easy as this:
- 600 W CPU power consumption won't be an issue once you mounted the waterblock and the large radiators which you mentioned. Still, you might find that the last couple of hundreds Watts don't give you anything of note in real usage, so you might want to set your own power limit anyway. A PPT limit, notably.
- The peak socket power consumption also matters to VRM temperatures of course, but you already have active cooling on them. Just take care to ventilate the computer case such that the VRM cooler fans pull mostly fresh air, not e.g. from GPU exhaust.
- Peak CPU hot-spot temperatures are a basically matter of peak core clock frequency, so you might want to set your preferred limit of that one too. Or set a temperature limit instead? Or both? I don't know which of these choices Zen 4 overclockers would prefer, and why, though either should work just as well.
The user manual of your mainboard does not explain what its dual PSU feature is for. It says "Dual PSU configuration should only be used when overclocking" but that does obviously not mean that dual PSUs were actually be required when overclocking. A single top-end PSU should still be able to handle even an overclocked 96-core Threadripper... unless we are talking extreme overclocking with liquid nitrogen cooling.
Another use case for a dual PSU setup is for multi GPU computing. In that case, one doesn't strictly need mainboard support for dual PSUs, but this way it is more convenient and safer than controlling the second PSU via a 24pin splitter cable of questionable build quality, or via a splitter PCB.
I on the other hand am dedicating 350...450 W per 64c/128t CPU computing node, and 350...400 W per 4c+RTX4090 node (or twice that per 4c+2xRTX4090 node). :-)which means i can dedicate a 1300W just to the board and cpu, and the 1600W to the rest of the system including the GPU cards.