Hey Folks,
First post but have followed for a long time and really respect the community here. Hoping to understand and reconfigure my homelab situation and hoping for feedback.
I wanted to add a bigger playground and put together a pretty sweet AMD EPYC 9135 over the summer. I used the recommended Silverstone water cooler and set it up.
Doing Memtest checks though I was successful but really put off by the temperatures. I understand that memtest may be unreliable with sensors but I struggle to find documentation and information regarding higher level cooling or pre testing.
Ultimately, the CPU runs at 80-90c with the cooler with 3x 120mm fans and 2 additional 120mm fans in the case. So water block plus 5x fans is still having it test without what I imagine is a high load, at around 90c. Truth is, I don’t know how to cool this before even adding gpus/nics to the board and filling the case.
I checked thermal paste for contact which is adequate but have not proceeded since noting holding temperatures 80/90+ in initial testing.
If I can better understand maybe how to test or what the tolerances on this would be, I’d be more comfortable with messing with it.
Thank you for your input!