After a lot of good advice from @H-i-v-e I’m planning out a Zen 3 threadripper build with 512GB of RAM (or more, but can’t find 128GB DDR4 ECC sticks anywhere). Anyway, those things put out 280W and my Gaea workloads make CPUs work at 100% for hours at a time.
There’s so many AiO coolers, and I’ve read about risks about corrosion in the tubes, corrosion on the CPU heatspreader, leaking pipes/pumps, etc., and there are suspect brands.
I have a bunch of Noctua 120mm fans I can repurpose, and my case can do a max of 3x 140mm (or 3x 120mm) fans at the top. The front can take a max of 3x 120mm fans. Since this whole build is expensive, I’m happy to pay for quality, especially when cheaper coolers can leak coolant and destroy the whole system!
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Hi there again. I currently switched from an Alphacool Eisbaer Pro 360 (Threadripper model) to an Noctua tower cooler. The AIO of course has more headroom then the tower cooler.
I have eight 128GB RIMMs and got them on Ebay. Though I advise you agains the ASUS WRX80 Wifi II motherboard if you want 1024GB of memory since I had this one before and it starts forgetting BIOS settings with that much memory.
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Damn the alphacool is pricy, the 360 has the same price as the 420 here. Turns out my case can mount a 420 at the top, and a 360 at the front.
How were the temps and sound of the fans with the alphacool? For CPU coolers I went from a Cooler Master 412S to an ID-Cooling SE-226XT, both with noctua fans and they are still very loud imo.
A google turned up a lot of people saying the Arctic Liquid Freezer III but considering they’re one of the cheapest, I’m a bit doubtful of the ALF.
Good shout about the Asus motherboard, I’ll look for the other brands.
Edit: Yeah the Arctic is just brand image. The Alphacool Esibaer is top contender, next was the Tryx Panorama but I can’t find which coolers work on WRX8
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I did not use the Alphacool fans, I put Artic P12 Max on it and those were silent during normal operations and only clearly auditable when the CPU was going full tilt. I can not tell you how the temps were exactly anymore since I quickly resorted to lower the fan speed further so I barely noticed when the CPU was under load but of course the CPU ran a little warmer then. But far away from the 90°C temperature mark. More in the 70s.
You definitely need to watch that the AIO is for Threadripper or otherwise the coldplate will be too small. There are some that work for normal processors too but I would not advise to get them, rather an AIO for Threadripper/EPYC.
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About the ASUS motherboard we had this thread going, where I found another person that was having trouble with a large amount of RAM on that board. Does not mean all DIMMs are affected but I could not make it work at least.
I went with the GIGABYTE MC62-G40 because I got my hands on that the easiest as a replacement but I would maybe more closely suggest the ASRock WRX80 Creator R2.0 because I think it is better suited as a workstation board. I needed an Intel network card though and the ASRock does not have that.
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