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
SSD in it's new home
Very interesting socket design to say the least
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.
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
CPU slid into place on the motherboard
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.
Corsair memory
Noctua Cooler
Assembled up on the bench
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.
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


SSD in it's new home

Very interesting socket design to say the least


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.

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


CPU slid into place on the motherboard



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.

Corsair memory


Noctua Cooler





Assembled up on the bench


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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