The OptimusPC waterblock still did not arrive :- ). But the PC works perfectly with the Noctua UH14S.
Please forgive me Juraj, could you take a quick look one more time before I order all of this?
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970x
Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS MASTER
Corsair Vengeance LPX, DDR4, 64 GB,3200MHz, CL16 (CMK64GX4M2E3200C16) 4x32GB total 128GB
NH-U14S TR4-SP3 + extra NF-A15 PWM
Fractal design meshify s2 + as much noctua fans I can put in there.
Seasonic Prime 1300W 80 Plus Gold or Seasonic Prime Ultra 1000W 80 Plus Titanium
Geforce gtx 1080 ti or Geforce rtx 2080 ti
Not sure if meshify is a good choice here, any suggestions?
TH
Everything looks good to me. Take the higher capacity Prime, it will leave you option for two GPUs in future should you want to and it will run at lower load in passive mode.
Mesh S2 is really good case for air-flow.
U14s doesn't need the additional fan, and with A15 there is resonance between them, I didn't find it pleasant.
For 2080ti vs 1080ti, I would buy second hand 1080ti for 350 +/- Euro and wait for 3000 gen cards. The 2080ti is imho really poor choice for Corona/3dsMax because the performance in viewport is of course almost identical, it still has only 11GB memory which is too little for too much money. The tensor cores do nothing right now for most part, and the RTX in professional use (Unreal,etc..) require lot more than single 2080ti to drive it properly.
There is very solid chance that 3080/Ti will come with 16+ GB Vram, and that is game-changer for mainstream finally.
Now with memory, I will always suggest like you did to do 4x32GB instead of 8x16GB because of following:
- Option to upgrade to 256GB in future
- Less stress on memory controller, thus more stable, higher clocks even with less quality memory modules.
But unfortunately, there is very little selection right now. In about a month+ high-quality micron rev-e modules will come from both Crucial (Micron's own brand) and G-Skill, but they're not here yet.
That leaves is with older G-Skill kit and three Corsair kits. The Corsair comes in LPX and RGB Pro but they don't state what dies they are made with.
The mismatched memory few pages back on my 3990X is Corsair RGB & RGB PRO (4 modules of each), and I originally thought it's the same dies, but Taiphoon burner told me last week that RGB is just cheap Hynix AFR, and the RGB PRO is Samsung B-Die.
So I worry that Corsair might have done something similar here as well, and would suggest to buy their RGB PRO kits just to have guarantee to receive better dies if they decided to make such split as well. The price difference is very small.
But keep the receipts ;- ). And check back in 3 weeks, if this memory becomes available:
https://geizhals.eu/crucial-ballistix-black-dimm-kit-64gb-bl2k32g36c16u4b-a2222501.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=ukThat will be the state of the art memory for Threadripper available on market. When it arrives, consider returning your Corsair kit and buy this one instead if you come across any issues getting the memory running stable at decided frequency & timings.
I'll comment on dfcorona's suggestions as well, but don't take it (you or him) that I wish to contradict it, I'll just share my personal experience, nothing else:
I have found zero difference between Cryonaut and Noctua's paste when it comes to temperatures. And I tested it back-to-back during loop assembly for 2990WX last year.
And that was using the full-spread method, not the X-method. With Cryonaut, the X is not even that good option because the paste is harder, thicker. Don't need to say how easy X-method is, and how easy Noctua paste spreads :- ). I would keep it easy therefore.
I would not suggest ever replacing NF series fans with Industrial PPC. These fans simply offer higher RPMs, but when normalized to identical RPM (let's say 1000) they don't provide better airflow, pressure...but definitely run much noisier.
Since I started using the sterrox NF-A12 (only in 120mm for now exists), even the A14/A15 sound terrible to me past 800 RPM. (The NF-A12 sound fantastic even at 2000 because of their deep sound profile). But the PPC is just unnecessary and not suggested for personal use computers.