Threadripper Workstation

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I need a new work workstation so what better excuse to check out some Threadripper goodness?

I'll be re-using a Corsair Carbide 300R case, a Pioneer Blu-Ray burner, a mechanical 1TB hard drive, and an nVidia GTX 1060 3GB video card.

New parts:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920x
ASRock X399 Taichi (based on Tom's review)
Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 DDR4, 32GB
Samsung 512GB 960 Pro NVMe
EVGA 850 G2 (overkill, but who knows what the future holds...)
Noctua NH-U12S for TR4

I love the case this motherboard came in
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SSD in it's new home
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Very interesting socket design to say the least
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The packaging for TR is stunning really. I'm keeping the box. We've all seen it, but here's the piece that pops out that actually holds the CPU.
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You can see the metal clip that holds the plastic together that took a surprising amount of force to take off.

This CPU is huuuuuge and the orange plastic piece attached is kind of strange
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CPU slid into place on the motherboard
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All closed up and bolted into place. It all feels very high quality, but over engineered, like using a drill press to punch a hole in a piece of paper.
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Corsair memory
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Noctua Cooler
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Assembled up on the bench
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I popped an old 9600GSO in for now and installed Windows 10 and all its updates. I've also started installing the many programs I use in my job and will begin migrating files over. If all goes well I should be able to swap the system into the case tomorrow.
 
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Yeah, it's a great looking board. No trouble setting ram speed either. Went into the UEFI and set the XMP profile, restarted and was at 3200 like it's supposed to be. Read some reports of users having issues on other boards.

Not going to lie, feels good to use AMD once again.
 
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I noticed that Leo @ Kitguru likes this board a bit haha. I think the overclocking was what got me. Took him about 2 seconds.
 
I cleaned up the old case yesterday and started assembling

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It's pretty no frills, but gets the job done.

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I know it's totally a work machine but man, with a cooler top and one of those new fans in black with grey corners = money shot.

Nice clean build man. I like that case.
 
I know it's totally a work machine but man, with a cooler top and one of those new fans in black with grey corners = money shot.

Nice clean build man. I like that case.

Definitely agree with that. I'm surprised it looks as good as it does really, but I guess you can't go wrong with everything blacked out. Hopefully the current noctua fan has an "untimely" death so I can justify replacing it.

Coming together very nicely dude looks good

It's done :cry:. Really wish I could use this kind of kit at home and do a total proper build. Unfortunately, this is 100% work (except for some OC3D browsing of course ;)) I did this more to show people who may never get to experience a TR build of their own. The socket design is so very different from everything else out there.
 
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