The 2990WX is 1800 Euro's over here -out of my reach. I hope to be able to afford myself the Ryzen 9 3950X someday...
The 2990WX is 1800 Euro's over here -out of my reach. I hope to be able to afford myself the Ryzen 9 3950X someday...
11 now (seven in top-300), still trailing Crunching@EVGA
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 07-20-2019 at 12:15 AM. Reason: 11!
eh, just get a bunch of cheap 8cores! (and maybe split a super powerful PSU) i got my 1700X for $150 last black friday/cyber monday. and a 1950X for $450 (and later, my first bid on an X399 board actually won... $183 or so)
it's also easier to manage the heat with lower TDP chips (the $25 FSP Windale 4 is surprisingly good!). the Noctua site lead me to believe a U12S would be fine for the 1950X but totally is not
Last edited by plonk420; 07-20-2019 at 10:36 PM.
The 1950X -being 16 cores, 32 threads by the way- should in my eyes be cooled by a Noctua with triple 140 mm fans -IF you are considering air cooling a 180 Watt TDP CPU at all. The Windale 4 is not yet for sale in the EU, AFAIK.
Over here they (Threadripper 1950X's) are 488 Euro's (including VAT), so marginally 'within' my reach. I'd rather buy a Ryzen 7 3700X though: 65 Watt TDP, and already 140 euro's cheaper than the 16-core Threadripper at 345 Euro (about the price of a 12-core Threadripper 1920 actually). The older Ryzen 7 2700 has in the meantime dropped below 200 Euro's, and is only marginally more expensive than my Ryzen 7 1700 now.
But the first CPU I have set my sights on is an APU: the Ryzen 5 2400G -by now for a mere 120 Euro's..
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 07-22-2019 at 01:08 AM.
Exiting till the end - the battle for places 11-13 must have been something really special.
We ended at #8, just behind Crunching@EVGA. If it would have been one more day, we would have passed them...
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 07-21-2019 at 12:33 PM.
You are sure you had the NH-U12S TR4-SP3, a dedicated version for the AMD TR4/SP3 socket?
Note that there even is a NH-U9 TR4-SP3 - but perhaps more aimed at the EPYC server SOCs, with their lower TDP than the Threadrippers.
And there is of course the NH-U14S TR4-SP3, but all three are single radiator and only the 92mm model has double fans.
One would expect a NH-U15S TR4(-SP3?) with double radiator and double fans, with option to place a third, when one takes in mind the TDP of the Threadripper 2990WX (250 Watt)
These are AMD's recommendations. Note that only the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 gets mentioned for the Threadrippers.
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 07-22-2019 at 11:42 AM.