Highly recommend anyone considering buying/building a system with this chip to watch the LTT review. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LaKH5etJoE&t=0s
It’s a mostly positive review but brings up some caveats for consideration.
System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which water block are you currently using? There was a design issue with the one EKWB original had, so they're giving out coupons to people who bought them. I found out when I went to look up whether or not the old one would still work with my new 3960X. (Turns out the answer is: Yes, but only if I limit the max power a bit. Possibly that wouldn't be an issue if I'd ever gotten around to installing the second radiato…
RayStorm Neo. I figured the pump and XSPC RX480 would carry over. Possibly the water block. Lord knows the 1950x does not need the cooling I have on it.
The coolers are compatible in general, so assuming the water block doesn't have any design flaws, you should be fine.
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#43are they actually selling it just with gigabit ethernet? that's bad
My best guess: because its targeted at home users. Not many home users have access to greater than 1 GB access. I think my router can link supports 1 GB, but I dont know because I rarely transfer files between my computer (Wife is Mac, I'm PC/Linux). My comcast DL is only about 150 Mbps. My nearly 8 yr old PC actually has 1 GBs, but its basically unused.
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#44As far as ads go, this was the most convincing sell I've seen for a high end computer in a long time. Good job to whoever is doing the marketing.
Perhaps to their target market ... I looked at it and thought 'hmmm, 44 seconds to do a simple image transform sounds pretty slow ....'. I assume it was a very high resolution image or thousands of slices or something but without them stating those metrics it was a bit meaningless to me. edit: OK I downloaded the image and see it's gigantic ... I reckon they should at least hint at that for the folks who are not quit…
The universe is big..
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#45I bought a System76 workstation last year. Everything about it is great except for one big thing that makes me hate using it: the air cooling is terrible and loud.
My room sounds like a wind tunnel even at idle. The response at the time was to futz around with fan controller firmware and I never got anywhere.
I don't understand why they don't move to liquid cooling.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the labor of assembly and integration, testing, and QC. DIY is free only if your time is worth nothing.
As a power-user, I wonder if there is any reason to not do DIY PC building (for personal use) over buying from System76. It's not hard to figure out a good configuration online (or even just whatever System76 uses in their desktops?). Basic assembly itself isn't that hard (or time consuming), once you have all the parts. And, I guess these days most people who would need a desktop at home with this configuration are…
I have built a lot of desktops over the years. I've run into lots of strange issues. One machine would bsod like once a week and I never worked out why. Once a video card was somehow not compatible with the system despite being fine on paper.
It's just an issue of how you value time. I have no time for those sort of way issues these days. When a hard dusk fails I want to call a vendor and have them show up with a part, not screw around with some return to base arrangement.
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#47are they actually selling it just with gigabit ethernet? that's bad
My best guess: because its targeted at home users. Not many home users have access to greater than 1 GB access. I think my router can link supports 1 GB, but I dont know because I rarely transfer files between my computer (Wife is Mac, I'm PC/Linux). My comcast DL is only about 150 Mbps. My nearly 8 yr old PC actually has 1 GBs, but its basically unused.
at 4000+$, yea, it's definitely not for home users
and those few ethusiats that will have this at their home will definitely have 10Gbit
also your 8 year old facebook machine might be ok with 1Gbit but definitely not this 24-64 core beast, people who use these will definitely benefit from 10Gb
it's also not related to internet use as much as connecting it to storage on local network
edit: with the 64 core i'd go as far as saying that it should have a 40Gbit option as well
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the labor of assembly and integration, testing, and QC. DIY is free only if your time is worth nothing.
As a power-user, I wonder if there is any reason to not do DIY PC building (for personal use) over buying from System76. It's not hard to figure out a good configuration online (or even just whatever System76 uses in their desktops?). Basic assembly itself isn't that hard (or time consuming), once you have all the parts. And, I guess these days most people who would need a desktop at home with this configuration are…
I believe I count as a power user. Not wanting to humblebrag here but I have been using Linux since 1993, coding in Z80 assembly since 1987, x86 assembly since 1993 as well. As a university student, I have, in fact, made a little money on the side by assembling PCs in the 90s for others. Last I checked the CPU / cooler installation was way way too fragile for my liking. I might be outdated on this , I last tried like ten years ago and noped the hell out. I also do not have the need any more, between my laptop + eGPU for gaming and a rented Hetzner server, my computing needs are covered. https://www.hetzner.com/sb has a E3-1275v5 with 2x512GB NVMe SSDs and 64GB RAM for 46 EUR a month, it'd take quite a few months to make that server worth building and also I can use that thing to, you know, serve hobby sites.
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#49Can an analogous version of any of these benchmarks be performed on macOS?
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#50I haven't seen what motherboard is used. The storage offered seems to be PCI gen3 only, which I find as weird given the target use and the support in the platform for gen4. They are generally very thin on spec details. Their cases are spectacular,I'll grant them that. Just tried the blur motion affect, completed on my machine in 2 minuets and 40 seconds.
what cpu are you running?