Dear TinyTom, I know this is a community forum but I'm told you read just about everything. I've been watching your videos for a long long time and I'm something of a YTber my self, however my following and credentials pail in comparison so please excuse my "noobness"
So on to it, I want to know if I'm just being an arse when I proclaim Threadripper to be easily overclockable or if I've won the PowerBall in the Silicon Lottery. I watch all your Threadripper content and I've even come on this forum and commented on youtube that you were using the wrong cooling methods and blah blah blah. I want to formally throw my chip in to the ring and see what ya think. (I'm posting pics linked from my google drive, I hope they actually show up.)
System Specs:
Threadripper 1950x - Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 - 48 GB of Ballistix Elite 3200 Mhz - MyDigitalSSD BPX NVMe - Some other HD's that don't matter all running in this:
The Thermaltake View31 With the 3 ring fans on top exhausting, a corsair SP120 exhausting in the back,
3 Corsair SP120 pushing through the Enermax TR4 Liqtech 360 in push pull with it's own fans.
Also an FSP 1200 Watt Platinum PSU.
Ohhh and last but not least... Vega 64
So let's get on to the benchmarks and OC.
I know I have the Enermax 360 which realllllly helps with these numbers, but I can vouch that I was able to sustain roughly these overclocks and Prime95 for 45 mins on only the Noctua NH14 prior with the same case fan config, things were a little more dicey and I never planned on using the Noctua full time for full OC.
This is also with the stock fan curve and Cool and Quiet Turned Off. I have weird issues with fans not doing what I manually set them to do with this board, but if I leave it stock, it does the best job.
So. Let's start with 4.0Ghz just like the AsRock Taichi you just reviewed. So 40 Multiplier 1.356 Volts, 1.18 SOC and medium LLC I leave everything else on Auto.
We see here I ran Prime95 for 45 minutes, I know that's not the obligatory 72 hour stint you are supposed to run but I will also vouch that I have run Prime with these settings for 2 hours straight at 4.1 Ghz and the temps were pretty much the same with a passing grade. LLC pushes the volts up there but maxing out at 1.464 seems acceptable for short stints.
Moving on to 4.1Ghz, 1.4056 Volts, 1.206 SOC and Medium LLC.
Again, I only ran prime for 20 minutes this time but vouch that I have run it long time, Vcore gets MUCH higher all on it's own here, 1.512, a little troubling...
20 minutes of Aida, no thermal throttling, stable temps.
...So let's talk about temps.
My temps do not get much higher with the extra 100mhz OC. The LLC is obviously doing insane volts which does trouble me but Both Prime and Aida do not crash nor does it really get to the point of thermal throttling.
The Bad... I see package temps pealing well in the to high 80's even 90's in the 2 hour run. It will level out at 70 to 75 at times and Aida is more like 76 or 77 after the AIO has really warmed up. The volts are way up there but changing LLC from Auto to Med seems to stop them at 1.5 volts, I've seem Auto spike higher! I also see that TmpIN2 and TmpIN4 in HWmonitor get really hot, espiecially 4. 105C. I think that's the VRM, but I have a really hard time finding what it actually is. I might try other software or even gigabytes software, I just hate using motherboard software, it's always so buggy.
We see here a thermal camera shot of the VRM during that 45 minute run of Prime95, the Heatsyncs are at 72c, I'm sure the sensor is much hotter.
So what's the good? I might even be able to get higher overclocks with any effort in to my cooling setup. I've been running at about 22-25c ambient and winter time is coming and I live in Canada. I am also planning a custom loop with Alphacool, although I'm thinking it might not get much better than this.
In Conclusion
Let's be real here, I know there will be many a people below this post telling me I'm terrible. That it's not stable, that my temps are too high, that I'm lying, that my stability tests cannot actually be real, or I should be running Prime for 12 years or whatever. To be clear, I use this computer and it is LOUD when I leave it at 4.1 Ghz, it generally is a lot more usable and probably draws a hell of a lot less power when I leave it at 4.0Ghz.
I'm going to leave my self open to criticism because I'm genuinely interested in what other people are getting. Is there something I'm totally missing? I'm pretty sure the Gigabyte isn't even the best motherboard, although it certainly is holding it's own. Am I just really lucky with this chip?
Tom I hope you will give me some words, maybe this will give you hope that there is a chip out there that you don't have to splat fans all over. Also get your self the Enermax Liqtech, they will no double just send you one. It rules at cooling this thing, I was using an Arctic 240mm Asetek and it was terrible next to even the Noctua.
Also I have a youtube channel with LOTS of this content, you can find it if you want, I won't advertise with a direct link.
I will leave you with this:
With Vega 64 I seem to have the 6th fastest computer on the Asus Realbench leaderboard. If only I had an Asus board I could post
So on to it, I want to know if I'm just being an arse when I proclaim Threadripper to be easily overclockable or if I've won the PowerBall in the Silicon Lottery. I watch all your Threadripper content and I've even come on this forum and commented on youtube that you were using the wrong cooling methods and blah blah blah. I want to formally throw my chip in to the ring and see what ya think. (I'm posting pics linked from my google drive, I hope they actually show up.)
System Specs:
Threadripper 1950x - Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 - 48 GB of Ballistix Elite 3200 Mhz - MyDigitalSSD BPX NVMe - Some other HD's that don't matter all running in this:
The Thermaltake View31 With the 3 ring fans on top exhausting, a corsair SP120 exhausting in the back,
3 Corsair SP120 pushing through the Enermax TR4 Liqtech 360 in push pull with it's own fans.
Also an FSP 1200 Watt Platinum PSU.
Ohhh and last but not least... Vega 64
So let's get on to the benchmarks and OC.
I know I have the Enermax 360 which realllllly helps with these numbers, but I can vouch that I was able to sustain roughly these overclocks and Prime95 for 45 mins on only the Noctua NH14 prior with the same case fan config, things were a little more dicey and I never planned on using the Noctua full time for full OC.
This is also with the stock fan curve and Cool and Quiet Turned Off. I have weird issues with fans not doing what I manually set them to do with this board, but if I leave it stock, it does the best job.
So. Let's start with 4.0Ghz just like the AsRock Taichi you just reviewed. So 40 Multiplier 1.356 Volts, 1.18 SOC and medium LLC I leave everything else on Auto.
We see here I ran Prime95 for 45 minutes, I know that's not the obligatory 72 hour stint you are supposed to run but I will also vouch that I have run Prime with these settings for 2 hours straight at 4.1 Ghz and the temps were pretty much the same with a passing grade. LLC pushes the volts up there but maxing out at 1.464 seems acceptable for short stints.
Moving on to 4.1Ghz, 1.4056 Volts, 1.206 SOC and Medium LLC.
Again, I only ran prime for 20 minutes this time but vouch that I have run it long time, Vcore gets MUCH higher all on it's own here, 1.512, a little troubling...
20 minutes of Aida, no thermal throttling, stable temps.
...So let's talk about temps.
My temps do not get much higher with the extra 100mhz OC. The LLC is obviously doing insane volts which does trouble me but Both Prime and Aida do not crash nor does it really get to the point of thermal throttling.
The Bad... I see package temps pealing well in the to high 80's even 90's in the 2 hour run. It will level out at 70 to 75 at times and Aida is more like 76 or 77 after the AIO has really warmed up. The volts are way up there but changing LLC from Auto to Med seems to stop them at 1.5 volts, I've seem Auto spike higher! I also see that TmpIN2 and TmpIN4 in HWmonitor get really hot, espiecially 4. 105C. I think that's the VRM, but I have a really hard time finding what it actually is. I might try other software or even gigabytes software, I just hate using motherboard software, it's always so buggy.
We see here a thermal camera shot of the VRM during that 45 minute run of Prime95, the Heatsyncs are at 72c, I'm sure the sensor is much hotter.
So what's the good? I might even be able to get higher overclocks with any effort in to my cooling setup. I've been running at about 22-25c ambient and winter time is coming and I live in Canada. I am also planning a custom loop with Alphacool, although I'm thinking it might not get much better than this.
In Conclusion
Let's be real here, I know there will be many a people below this post telling me I'm terrible. That it's not stable, that my temps are too high, that I'm lying, that my stability tests cannot actually be real, or I should be running Prime for 12 years or whatever. To be clear, I use this computer and it is LOUD when I leave it at 4.1 Ghz, it generally is a lot more usable and probably draws a hell of a lot less power when I leave it at 4.0Ghz.
I'm going to leave my self open to criticism because I'm genuinely interested in what other people are getting. Is there something I'm totally missing? I'm pretty sure the Gigabyte isn't even the best motherboard, although it certainly is holding it's own. Am I just really lucky with this chip?
Tom I hope you will give me some words, maybe this will give you hope that there is a chip out there that you don't have to splat fans all over. Also get your self the Enermax Liqtech, they will no double just send you one. It rules at cooling this thing, I was using an Arctic 240mm Asetek and it was terrible next to even the Noctua.
Also I have a youtube channel with LOTS of this content, you can find it if you want, I won't advertise with a direct link.
I will leave you with this:
With Vega 64 I seem to have the 6th fastest computer on the Asus Realbench leaderboard. If only I had an Asus board I could post
