AMD 2950x workstation help

[christsui25188]

I am going to build a new workstation and wondering if the following configurations are all good to go?

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X w/o Coller
AsRock X399 Taichi (Socket TR4) ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengance RGB Pro 64GB (16GBx4) DDR4 3200MHz C15
Zotac Geforce RTX 2080 8GB AMP Display Card (3 Fans)
Samsung 970 EVO 500GB SSD
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB SATA 6Gb/s/64MB
Corsair HX Series HX1200 1200W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified Fully Modular POWER SUPPLY
Corsair Hydro Series H115i Pro RGB Liquid CPU Cooler
Fractal Design DEFINE R6 with USB Type C ATX CASE

Please help and comment. Thanks!
Chris

[Tanakov]

I would not go for the water cooling, but Im not really sure what the quality of listed product really is.

2080 RTX sounds like a overkill, RTX is not ready, games dont exist that support. Also Corona wont benefit much out of it.

Rest is ok I guess.

Tip: Chose the Motherboard that is most popular not the best one. Pick the one that sold the most as it will have updates longer and first.

[flood]

I would not go for the water cooling, but Im not really sure what the quality of listed product really is.

Could you explain why you adviced against watercooling? I have the same watercooler and have no issues or problems with it.
I first tried a normal fan cooler but couldn't cool the CPU enough when overclocking (I have a intel setup - 7820x) and was happy I change to watercooling.
Made a big difference in terms of cooling the CPU.

[clemens_at]

Could you explain why you adviced against watercooling?

[Juraj]

It's been written on this forum (and everywhere on internet) maybe 50 times. AIO coolers in general mostly suck except for few (leaky) exceptions, but they suck 5 times more when they don't even cover the heatspreader. Why people still buy NZXT Kraken and Corsair Hydro (or any other rebranded ASETEC in billion different RGB variations and shapes) for Threadripper is incomprehensible.

The test above is hillarious. Single fan Noctua at 1000rpm absolutely demolishes dual-fan NZXT Kraken at 2000rpm when it comes to TR4 platform. And because Noctua uses far superior fan, the noise level difference is absurd.

The rest of the build can be answered in five most popular threads from past two months in this sub-section. It's been discussed to death.

[Charlie Nicols]

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
Spec this up to the 2970 if you can (use the money saved by downgrading other components (GPU RAM PSU Cooling)

AsRock X399 Taichi (Socket TR4) ATX Motherboard
The Fatal1ty is great if you need 10GBE networking - Taichi is great if not


Corsair Vengance RGB Pro 64GB (16GBx4) DDR4 3200MHz C15
High speed ram is good but you may be able to spec down to 3000 MHz and use the money somewhere else


Zotac Geforce RTX 2080 8GB AMP Display Card (3 Fans)

Go with the 1080TI unless you need RTX for gaming


Samsung 970 EVO 500GB SSD



Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB SATA 6Gb/s/64MB



Corsair HX Series HX1200 1200W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified Fully Modular POWER SUPPLY

This is overkill, unless you are going to be adding in more GPUs you probably only need 850W max - use PCPartpicker to work this out

Corsair Hydro Series H115i Pro RGB Liquid CPU Cooler
Don't do this, use Noctua



Fractal Design DEFINE R6 with USB Type C ATX CASE