U12S and U14S was pretty amazing when they were released initially. I mean U12S was spanking most 120AIOs and U14S was giving the 240s a run for their money.
I’m honestly surprised Noctua haven’t released a dual tower, D14 type cooler. D14 will keep that fuker cool…
Yeah I ran the numbers myself too. I’m just concerned that 4u is only outer dimensions. You need to take into consideration thickness of the chassis times two, distances between chassis and the motherboard, motherboard thickness socket + processor. I’m just not sure if 1.28 cm is enough. Also is 165mm dimension including heat pipes?
I would like it to fit, but I have those concerns listed above.
Thanks for the great review.
An off topic question – when are you planning to review the X399 Designare you used on your pass through video? I am about to pull the trigger for X399, and mainly want to know if there is out of the box linux compatibility like for the Aorus.
As I recall Designare’s lure was the promise of Thunderbolt 3, but I don’t think there’s been much movement / updates on that front? @wendell may know more…
Two things. One, the asetek coolers do NOT work well with threadripper, and I have no idea why they promoted it. The baseplate is really what matters, as the 240mm enermax TR4 cooler does cover it, and perfroms better than these air coolers and larger asetek aio’s. Two, people get so worked up over core count and performance per core, but power draw is also a huge factor. The X models stock (1600x, 1700x, 1800x, any TR chips, which are all around 3.4-3.6ghz) all draw about 8 watts per core when under full load. This is compared to Intel’s 14w~ per core. So when we hear 16 core we think “this thing is a monster, its gonna gobble power and heat your home” but really isn’t much worse than intels 10 core.
