Hi
I bought a Lian Li GA ii for my 7970x threadripper but notice that it does not cover the whole cpu. Also the threadripper CPU has this bracket. Where does that go?
Finally it would seem that The Lian Li was a wrong purchase. It supports the Am5 but not the sTR5…
Are there any sTR5 coolers other than the Silverstone one which cost $$$$…?
Thanks
Thermal solutions for the 7000 series are slim. I manage to cool my 7970X with a NZXT Kraken Elite but it suffers from the same limitations you are experiencing. AlphaCool does make an AIO solution that has an enlarged heat sink that I want to try out in the near future.
Thanks. What is the bracket that comes with the cpu for?
Silverstone has a dedicated cooling system but it looks kind of industrial…
It is a bracket that is compatible with any Asetek cooler. Asetek is the OEM for many manufacturers AIO pumps and they all share the same footprint. The supplied bracket affords compatibility with said coolers as most brands do not offer TX55 bracket for their coolers.
Ok.
However comparing that bracket with the 7970x size, any cooling does not cover the chip completely. Seems inadequate to me.
Thanks
No most AIO do not cover the die completely, yet I can tell you my Kraken (which is a Asetek) works well enough.
Although the Heatsink, may not cover the [entire] IHS, as long it contacts AMD subdies
Them older Asetek TR Builds, were not able to handle the evolution of TR
Despite the physical size matching, Zen1/+ =/= Zen2 [Zen2s chiclets spread past HS coverage]
So anything that supports the Am5 socket will work?
Will my Lian Li?
Or does it have to have at least TR4 or sTR4 support?
Pretty confusing overall.
There just isn’t great support for the sTR5 socket. The provided bracket works with Asetek coldplates/pumps. Other then that in the world of AIO Alpha cool is about the only game in town. For air cooling several good solutions exist but few of aesthetically appealing.
You can still use an AIO without a Threadripper-sized block, but you’ll be leaving a lot of your OC room on the table. For AIOs with Threadripper-sized blocks you have Alphacool, Silverstone, Enermax and maybe one other I’m forgetting. For air coolers you’ll have more. Noctua and some of the typical ones.
And then you have custom loops, which have a good amount of Threadripper-sized CPU block options. Optimus, EKWB, Heatkiller, etc.
IMO Threadripper 7000 deserves a custom loop. They have 20-30% of OC performance headroom beyond stock.
Full plate coverage is much more inportant for the 7000 series. You can purchase the full size asetek that puget and falcon northwest use. (I have one on ebay uk) Silverstone also do one that normal people can buy.
The only difference to TR4 is it needs to be tighter to ensure full coverage. The tr4 noctua air cooler can be adapted and will cool a 7970. I think that the pressure requirements are higher to ensure more of the plate is properly cooled, as the chiplets take up more space on the 7000s. DO NOT GET ANYTHING FROM ENERAMAX. I see a few system bulders are using their tr4 but they still corrode and fail often within a year.
1 Like
I bought the silverstone XE360-TR5. This is made specifically for the sTR5 chip set. Not cheap though. Close to $700CND
One additional benefit is that it is very low profile since the pump is with the rad and not the cpu. This there is less in the way of cooling.
The fans seem like they are real beasts though. I should get it tomorrow and then complete my build.
Tom
1 Like
cool. that is a thing of beauty for sure. I have seen that larger custom plates exist though often not to consumers. Comino do them. I intend to use the asetek to mount fans to cool the RAM as I think DDR5 gets very hot and I switched to WRX90 which I may live to regret.
Alphacool Eisbaer Pros are another sTR5 option that might be worth a look. Haven’t worked with them personally but the coldplate’s close to ~79 x 64 mm, so likely a few millimeters larger than the IHS, and the microfin extent’s ~55 x 42 mm. They’re also semi-modular in that one tube can be opened up to expand the loop.
Yeah, if not one of the few sTR5 AIOs then probably a small Heatkiller IV or Eisblock XPX Pro loop, though Alphacool does also sell the Eisbaer Pro ES block separately.
EK’s had pretty terrible rep in the water cooling communities I’m in for years and is currently imploding. So personally I’d avoid. Optimus I don’t know, Bykski does SP5 but I’m not seeing TR5 from them or getting search hits.
This is pretty much what I keep coming back to, partly because my experiences with DDR5 thermals make waterblocking the DIMMs of interest, though I understand the AIO attraction.
the Silverstone mentioned here is good but also their other one works fine which is smaller but almost full coverage anyway. I did a build with it In a video recently
1 Like
I received the Silverstone XE360-TR5. I replaced the fans with some LianLi Uni Fans.
So I completed my build. The system is set up to use the 6MHz EXPO settings. At rest, the CPU temperature is 42C, ram 45C.
Running Prime95 overnight, heated up my room quite a bit! The maximum temperature for the CPU with small FFT’s was 70C with memory at 80C. I also at one point ran another Prime95 bench and the maximum temperature after a few hours was 92C. Everything is 100% stable.
Tried many other benchmarks (OCC etc) and temperatures never went over 70C. All core speed reached 4800GHz.
Pretty decent overall.
I’m sure the original fans from Silverstone would be better but they wouldn’t be so pretty…(lol).
Why? Silverstone’s not known for their fans and the unswept blades suggest against a good likelihood of high noise-normalized airflow. Whereas Lian Li’s RGB Unis are sometimes top 120s.
1 Like