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Building a 2990WX System

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cdawall said:
Yes I got it a week or two ago. Waiting on my board and waterblock to show up to replace the 5960x I have been using. That chip is getting tired. Can't hold 4.8ghz anymore.
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You getting the MSI MEG? My friend told me earlier bios are not playing well with ram settings. You might wanna try some of those beta BIOS.

As of now my friend's DDR4-3200 C14 can only run max at 2933.
 
cdawall said:
So get one?

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I wish I could :) But sadly there's other things that have happened and I can't go spending silly crazy amounts on hardware like I used to.. Well for the moment :) When things are a bit more normal, then I might consider!! That said, I have promised myself to finish off my 5960X build, that's been waiting nearly 3 years!! lol By the time I get my daughters and girl friends Ryzen systems up and running, I believe then I might have some money for actually buying a completely loopy build for myself :)

Well I hope so!! :)

cdawall said:
Yes I got it a week or two ago. Waiting on my board and waterblock to show up to replace the 5960x I have been using. That chip is getting tired. Can't hold 4.8ghz anymore.
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What volts did yours need for that speed @cdawall ?? :)
 
xkm1948 said:
You getting the MSI MEG? My friend told me earlier bios are not playing well with ram settings. You might wanna try some of those beta BIOS.

As of now my friend's DDR4-3200 C14 can only run max at 2933.
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Nope this is going into my matx case so the asrock x399m was my only option. It sounds like they have memory clocking down so we will see what it'll do. They 4x8gb trident kit I have has no issues pushing 3400+ so I'm going to try for as far as they'll let me go.

phill said:
What volts did yours need for that speed @cdawall ?? :)
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1.45-1.47v this chip was always under a massive loop so I never really cared. It's running at a much more sane 4.4ghz right now. Voltage definitely pushed way too far for far too long.
 
Subbed. Would like to see the finished product!!
 
Sub because I like where this is going and we have several PC's for similar use where work, 7900X, 128GB RAM, 1TB 960 Pro, 2TB HDD, 2xTitan XP service pack 3 or whatever the most recent ones are. We've got 3 of them running Linux doing modeling and AI training/machine learning.
 
cdawall said:
1.45-1.47v this chip was always under a massive loop so I never really cared. It's running at a much more sane 4.4ghz right now. Voltage definitely pushed way too far for far too long.
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Ah :) I was running 4.8Ghz with mine around the 1.25vcore mark, it was a bit of a cherry picked CPU :) Currently running 4.2Ghz @ 1.062vcore :)
 
What a monster!!! Very nice system I hope it serves its purpose well :) Great job!
 
phill said:
Ah :) I was running 4.8Ghz with mine around the 1.25vcore mark, it was a bit of a cherry picked CPU :) Currently running 4.2Ghz @ 1.062vcore :)
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OH yea this was a used chip that always loved voltage. Probably would be a monster under LN2.
 
cdawall said:
OH yea this was a used chip that always loved voltage. Probably would be a monster under LN2.
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I had it booting at 5Ghz under standard water at about 1.34vcore, but not stable.. I'm guessing maybe chilled water might have been a different story.. I believe it was tested under LN2 at 5.7Ghz or something.. 4.75Ghz in Windows 7 was 1.23vcore :) So worth the money I paid for it :) I think Windows 10 makes the voltages I used in 7 unstable so sadly I have to higher the volts up a bit...
 
phill said:
I had it booting at 5Ghz under standard water at about 1.34vcore, but not stable.. I'm guessing maybe chilled water might have been a different story.. I believe it was tested under LN2 at 5.7Ghz or something.. 4.75Ghz in Windows 7 was 1.23vcore :) So worth the money I paid for it :) I think Windows 10 makes the voltages I used in 7 unstable so sadly I have to higher the volts up a bit...
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This did 5ghz@1.5v stable. Chip was a beast it just loved voltage. The higher density ram I have in it now didn't help things. The old 4*4gb kit I had let it boot much higher.
 
xkm1948 said:
Man, please take your X99 discussions to PM.
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Apologises, this will be my upgrade path to Threadripper, so I'm interested in finding out how you get on :)
 
phill said:
Apologises, this will be my upgrade path to Threadripper, so I'm interested in finding out how you get on :)
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Make sure to get a future proofed board one as good as or better than the OPs one, The threadrippers coming 2020 will make a nice upgrade.
 
Build looks awesome, and I have to admit I'm jealous of it! I want that many threads at my disposal.

One note, from the pictures it looks like the Rad is mounted below the pump on the AIO cooler. In my experience, this works at first, but as a little of the fluid evaporates, the air bubble ends up getting into the pump and causing a gurgling noise. It takes a year or more before it happens though.
 
Xx Tek Tip xX said:
Make sure to get a future proofed board one as good as or better than the OPs one, The threadrippers coming 2020 will make a nice upgrade.
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Looking at the X399 Meg but I'm sure there will be others that are available by the time I get to upgrade :) The Threadrippers just seems complete overkill for what I need, but that makes it more fun for me :) I'm keeping an eye on the thread to see what happens and so on :)
 
Nice job so far, but with that case and all of it's options, you could have definitely done a better job of cable/wire/tubing management and it would have looked a lot better :) When you add the water cooling you will have a really messy interior....

I have a TT900 too, and it is way moar better in this regard, although it is air cooled right now (I'm saving up for custom loop hdwr in the near future).

I have a similar set of RGB ram and it looks great along with my RGB fans, most of which are only barely seen though. I also put a digital fan/temp controller in the lower front 5 inch bay, which adds to the bling effects....
 
xkm1948 said:
So back in January I helped a Professor setup a TR 1950X build used for Nanopore sequencing as well as Genomic data processing. It was so well received that I got request to help another researcher building another TR system also used for Genomics and machine learning.

Here are the specs:

AMD Threadripper 2 2990WX
Enermax LIQTECH TR4 II 360 (Going full hard tubing water cooling in the future)
MSI MEG X399 Creation
EVGA 2080 Ti (Place holder for now)
GSKill DDR4-3200 128GB
Samsung 970 Pro 1TB
WD Gold 10TB *2 RAID-1
EVGA 1600Watt Titanium
Thermaltake Tower 900
Samsung UH 750 32'' 4K monitor
HTC Vive Pro (possible, waiting for wireless kit to become available)

And of course nothing would be complete without some pictures.

His goal is 4GHz all 32 core overclocking using the Enermax AIO for now. Don't know whether that is possible or not. But man, those X399 MEG boards surely look amazing.

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Will definitely post more as the parts arrive.
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Incredible looking Machine I am looking forward to seeing the completed project. My bad I didn't notice the other parts to this.
 
Very impressive build! Nice to see a decent backstory and pictures to go along with it.

Do you think the owner is really going to be able to use all 64 threads?

I'd like to see the benchmark report from AIDA64 on this system. I'm sure it would top out most of them.
 
storm-chaser said:
Very impressive build! Nice to see a decent backstory and pictures to go along with it.

Do you think the owner is really going to be able to use all 64 threads?

I'd like to see the benchmark report from AIDA64 on this system. I'm sure it would top out most of them.
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Usage of just 64 threads? Pff easily. The programs like predication of gene regulation network usually require 40+ threads over terabyte level of RAM on clusters. The problem even with TR-2 platform is lack of large RAM capacity. Yeah 128GB is small fry.
 
So what do you do when 128GB isn't enough?
 
Well... I already know servers exist that have huge amounts of RAM... I meant on the same system.
 
But the board/CPU still only supports 128GB? So such ram wouldn't help...
 
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