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I have 2 RAID partitions (one is NVME based and other is HDD based) on my ASUS ROG STRIX TRX40-XE GAMING - motherboard. Both are NTFS and being used in Windows 10 (One for OS and other for Data). I have installed a 3rd SSD and have installed Linux (Ubuntu based PopOS) on this SSD but i'm unable to see or access my 2 RAID partitions when im booted into Linux. I couldn't find any RAID driver support on AMD or ASUS's website for Linux. Can anyone help me ? i do not want to install Linux on the RAID partitions, just want to access the data in those RAID partitions while i'm booted into Linux.

Hey everyone, So I've got this crazy built we want to do at our lab for calculations. We do not need GPU power but A LOT of ram and a fast processor. Build: Housing: Corsair obsidian series 750D Full tower CPU: ryzen threadripper 3960x @ roughly 4.2GHz Mobo: Asus rog strix trx40-e gaming motherboard RAM: 256gb corsair vengeance 3000MHz PSU: Corsair 1000W RMx series Cooling: masterliquid ML360R rgb for CPU and extra 120mm fans in the housing Thermal Paste: MX-4 Extreme I'm a bit worried about cpu thermal throttling (especially when slightly overclocked). Also I'm not sure about the extra heat produced by the crazy amount of RAM.. Does this heat up the CPU a lot? We want to do calculations for multiple days in a row under full CPU-load. Help is appreciated A LOT here :) Thanks

I’m currently looking to start a new build with a threadripper 3960x. The motherboard I am going with is a gigabyte designer. For the RAM I’m unsure as to which I should go for: 4 x 32GB 3600 Corsair vengeance pro c18 or 4 x 16GB 3200 Corsair dominator c16 Would there be much performance difference between then? Which would you recommend getting? The system will run unraid with 2-3 windows gaming VMs,Apple VM,Plex,UniFi controller etc. Thank you for your help

What's the speed of Threadripper 3970X with all cores under load? When doing a 7 gamers 1 CPU setup, you're going to be adding a ton of load to a single processor. How does Threadripper 3970X fair under that kind of load?

Budget (including currency): approx 15670 USD Country: Russia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: C4D, Octane Render, Redshift Render, Houdini, UE4 Other details: Continious build: CPU: Ryzen Threadripper 3970x M/B: Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Xtreme Ram: 128Gb HyperX DDR4 NVMe SSD: Samsung 970 Pro 512Gb RAID 10: HDD 3Tb Seagate x8 Back Up: HDD Seagate Ironwolf 12Tb GPU1: GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME WATERFORCE GPU2: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AORUS MASTER GPU3: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GAMING OC Case: Fractal Design Define XL R2 HDD Bracket: Orico1106 x2 Case aux Fan 1: Prolimatech Ultra Sleek Vortex 14 Case aux Fan 2: be quiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm BL06 Case aux Fan 3,4,5: NOCTUA Chromax 140mm CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock PRO TR4 CPU aux fan: be quiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm BL070 PSU: EVGA 1600 Supernova PSU Fan (replacement): Noctua NF-A14 Review - UPGRADE 2022: Original buid 2020:

Hi all, I am wanting to try out PBO and AutoOC on my 3970x using the Aorus Master TRX40 to see how much faster it is, but if I don't see any noticeable improvements I will disable it. Will enabling it for 5 minutes void my warranty forever, or is it only void if I damage my processor WHILE having PBO enabled? I would hate to use it for 5 minutes and disable it, only to find out my warranty is gone even though I don't use it at all afterwards!

I put together 3 parts lists; the first was a Threadripper 3960x based machine designed to work as 3 systems, two for gaming and one content creation. It came out to 4,430$. When I tallyd up the total for the machines by themselves rather than integrated into one machine, I came out to 1,814$ for the content creation machine (Ryzen 9 3900x + GTX 1660 Super + 32gb ram and some other bells and whistles like mirrored hard drives). The Gaming machines came out to 1,440$ each. (Ryzen 5 3600 + RTX 2060 Super and some other bells and whistles like liquid cooling). This came out to 4696$, 266$ less than our fully integrated system. With some smarter parts listing you could definitely maximize your savings, but I DEFINITELY think looking into the lower-end threadrippers as several virtual machines is worth looking into, and it would be very interesting to see the results if someone were to actually try this.

Hey everyone, I will be doing an upgrade and I want to get a few questions out and asked before I proceed with it. My idea is to get 2 x RTX 2080 Super cards for my PC upgrade. The reason is that I want to increase the amount of monitors I can use and at the same time when I want to relax and play to have otpimal performance. Firstly I am currently using 4 monitors. Monitor 1 - LG 35 inch 144 hz 3440x1440 Monitor 2 - LG 27 inch 240 hz 1920x1080 Monitor 3 - LG 27 inch 240 hz 1920x1080 Monitor 4 - Acer Predator 27 inch 240 hz 1920x1080 My question is if I get a second GPU will I be able to increase the amount of monitors I have? I need to add two more monitors to the setup. Some of you might say it is enough with four and it is dumb or useless but my workflow will definitely benefit the extra monitors especially if one of them is a second ultrawide monitor. Secondly from what I read performance wise for when I game I will not see any benefit if I have two RTX super cards? I do not plan to game on all monitors at the same time I will game on one of the ultrawides. Here is the planned setup for the rest of the PC if you need it for reference: Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Asus Zenith II Extreme Trident Z Neo (for AMD Ryzen) Series 64GB Corsair AX1500i power supply I am still debating on what cooler to get for the system. I will be using my C700P case for the whole build in which I currently have a system with 1950X in it. Awaiting the feedback and help and sorry for the long post!

Don't kill me just now, hear me out. I love to work with blender and have to wait long times for renders to finish. Of course, a Threadripper 3970x would be a blast to render on! The problem is that i also love to game... Since threadrippers have a relatively bad single thread performance, they do not perform well in games. Maybe zen2 changed that...? Of course, it won't suddenly multithread the game loop, but maybe it could match other cpus like the 3950x? Could it perform in the neighbourhood of a 3950x for gaming? I obviously still want be able to game...

Hello guys. I would like to get some help. I need a pc for 3d modeling, rendering and simulation. I want a threadripper for cpu and i was thinking something like 3970x and a couple of rtx maybe ? Also i need 128gb of ram. What are you suggesting to pick and make a build that can handle some heavy stuff ?

Hi all! I am new to the forums and come here looking for help. I have very limited experience with building systems, but just got done building a.3970x rig on Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme. There are two AMD RX580 installed also. I have very modest cooling. The three fans which came with the Fractal Design XL R2 configured as two front intake, one rear exhaust. The PSU is configured at the bottom upside down to exhaust through the bottom of the case. Those case fans are all three pin, so connected directly to a molex and not the mb. The CPU has a noctua (I think the only model available for Threadripper 3), heatsink and fan. Hi (Edit: NH-U14S TR4-SP3) I am seeing idle temps at 65C-68C, and raising quickly to 85C, and slowly up from there under load. I am told the amd website lists safe temps up to 95, but this all just feels a little too toasty to me, and I do plan to stress this CPU. So my questions: 1) What actually are reasonable CPU temps? 2) Is this to be expected with such modest cooling? I.E. could I have done something wrong during installation of the cooler, or have I heavily under-estimated the cooling requirements? 3) Are better quality case fans likely to make a significant difference, or should I be looking at water? (I don't care about noise, but wanted to avoid the maintenance of water cooling, which is all new to me) Help me L.T.T forums, please!

Based on a recent LinusTechTips video, I'd like to look into building a single system for my other LAN gaming machines. Pros/Cons Things that are attractive about this setup: One physical machine, case, etc. One place to upgrade and maintain all hardware. Easier to swap around hardware between machines. CPU and memory will most-likely not be a bottleneck. One place to turn on all machines. One place to maintain the OSes. Simple re-imaging if necessary. Nearly unlimited drive space based on clusters of drives rather than individually smaller drives. Potential to save on drive space on games using Unraid and a shared network Steam drive (just guessing). Don't have to pay for separate motherboards, CPUs, RAM sticks, PSUs, and heatsinks for each machine. Possible problems: Complete loss of system portability if I want to bring this machine somewhere. If there's an issue with this one rig, all other machines are outta commission. Audio has to be through the graphics card's HDMI or DisplayPort (not a big deal since that's how i have it setup already). Non-standard setup having a single machine running 5-7 others (non-standard in 2019 at least). Difficult to find a case available for this many 2-slot graphics cards. Might need to buy a new network switch with support for 10gig Ethernet or buy an extra multi-Ethernet NIC. Limited motherboard selection. Potential for expensive upgrades since I won't be able to do them in smaller increments when consumer hardware goes on sale, but also a potential for super-cheap upgrades if server hardware goes on sale. I just upgraded my main rig a few months ago and wouldn't want to waste that money. My Setup I already have 7 gaming machines at home, but 5 of them are on aging hardware to the degree that the CPU and motherboard is starting to limit gaming performance. Upgrading the CPU either means grabbing the highest-end used hardware of the 2013-2014 Intel and AMD era or upgrading the mobo, CPU, and RAM if I wanna move to Ryzen. Of the 7 machines, one is my main rig sporting a Ryzen 7 3800X. Most-likely, I wouldn't need to virtualize this as a Threadripper 3000 won't provide the same in terms of gaming performance. Another machine is on an Intel i7 4770K and acts as my Big Picture machine. This would be the only machine not physically in the same room, but I might be able to work around that with an active USB3.0 extender since the home theater is right next door. The other machines are on pretty lackluster CPUs mainly because of cost and also because it's cheaper to cool them if I don't have to buy beefy heatsinks for each machine. Reasons for a Single System The main reason I want to move to a single system design is because I want less maintenance trying to keep these systems up-to-date and in a working state. Little things can go wrong in one system that isn't happening to the others, and I'm never sure what's wrong. One machine, for instance, worked fine for a while and all-of-a-sudden turns off (completely powers off) if I play a specific game. If all these machines are running on the exact same virtualized modern hardware and the same SSD clusters, there's less of a chance of problems and if one comes up, all machines are affected, not machine X with a specific set of hardware that the other machines don't share. Hardware I was thinking of simply upgrading all these machines to Ryzen, but the cost to do so would be about the same as building a single system. Linus went with Epyc, but the core clocks are a lot lower with less threads compares to Threadripper. Since I'm going to be using these other machines for gaming, Threadripper seems like the right option. PCI Express 4.0 lanes While Epyc has 128 PCIe Gen-4 lanes, Threadripper has 72. All my graphics cards are PCIe Gen-3 (1080 Ti or lower). From what I've read, only the 2080 Ti will start using a bit more than x4 lanes of Gen-4. That means even if I have 72 Gen-4 lanes available, that's nine full x16 Gen-3 lanes. Plenty for 7 gaming rigs if I even put that many on this one machine. Motherboard Limitations I dunno where Linus found a motherboard with 7 PCI Express ports for Socket sTRX4, but even if I had only 4, I was thinking there'd be some riser out there that'd allow me to split them into 2. Since each Gen-4 x16 is technically two Gen-3 x16s, then a splitter should work fine right? System Specs Compared to Epyc, Threadripper seems a lot faster. The fact that it's also a consumer processor makes it easier to purchase and potentially more-likely to be available aftermarket when I upgrade in the future. If I went with 6 machines (excluding my main rig), I'd only need 4 physical cores for gaming (pretty sure that's all most games use). The 24-core Threadripper 3960X looks like the right processor; although, I think you'd need some cores left-over for the host machine too which means the 32-core Threadripper 3970X is probably the lowest I could go; that is, unless I leave the Big Picture machine to its own hardware. That does save me $500 on the CPU alone. Moving my main rig I was also thinking of moving my main rig--AMD Ryzen 7 3800X w/ 32GB of RAM--to this system, but that seems like quite a downgrade just because of the need to divide resources among the other PCs on the same box. Thing is, I'm pretty sure I could dynamically add and remove hardware as-necessary. Windows doesn't throw a fit like it used to. If Unraid supports multiple profiles, that'd be even better because I could use all cores and RAM when I'm working or gaming alone and move to a split-resources profile when I wanna load up the other gaming machines. Since Big Picture machine is most-likely not going to be used when I'm in this configuration so this setup might actually work. Why I'm Posting I wanna know if this is going to work. Linus has "proven" it in his videos, but that's not really enough for me since they never seem like real scenarios except the one in his house. If you've done something like this or know someone who has, I'd love to know about your experience. If you know of any motherboards that'd fit my scenario, I'd love to know about those too. If you know of anything else I'm missing, that'd be a great help. It's possible I'm not considering everything necessary to visualizer multiple gaming rigs. Lastly, if you know if Unraid supports virtualization profiles (machine X gets 24 cores, but gets only 16 when machine Y starts up), that'd be really helpful. I've been trying to think if this is even worth it and also wanna know how much it'd cost if I was going to price it out. I already have multiple 1kW PSUs and the GPUs necessary so I'd need the mobo, CPU, heatsink+fan, RAM, and a case. Also, I'd like to know if I should move my main rig into this system as well or leave it to the 6 other gaming rigs since I thought a 3800X was faster than Threadripper in gaming performance.

Hi folks, I am having a temperature problem if it is I don't know yet. I have a Zenith II Extreme with; I am writing down the spec that I am using for any case if its related. Gtx 1080 TR 3960x no OC 64Gb 3200Mhz Ram an Old Creative Sound Card (sound blaster z) 4 Sata SSD 4 HDD and 1 Nvme SSD 1600w Evga Titanium PSU Every temperature is below 50 celsius in the system except the chipset is idling at 80 Celsius after 10 minute. Is this normal or am I having a problem with this? Fan is running at 100%. Every help is appreciated.

Budget (including currency): 6k-10k (The lower the better, obviously, but I know what I am getting into with HEDT and I am an not afraid to spend money for performance and functionality.) Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Audio/Video Conversion and Editing, Streaming, Audio/Video over IP, Recording, Bulk Storage, Live A/V Presentation and Control, Creative Applications (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Pro Presenter 7, Handbrake, Reaper, Pro Tools, iZotope RX, OBS, etc.), absolutely NO GAMING, as this is a strictly professional use build. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Greetings, I am in the process of designing an HEDT PC using the Threadripper 3960X, a GTX 2070 SUPER (At the moment, but I may upgrade to a TITAN RTX later, perhaps when or after the 3000 series comes out), a 970 Evo 1 TB, 4 7200 RPM bulk storage drives, and a whole bunch of Trident Z Neo 3600. I know, anathema, I am on the LTT Forum and I am building a PC for the express purpose to never play games on it. LOL. I would not have come here if I had any choice, but I am in desperate need of some expertise and recommendations, as all research on the topic has been fruitless up until this point. So here is the situation. I am intending to overclock this chip, so I am going for a 420mm radiator AIO-style water cooling system that straddles the line between AIO and Custom Loop very closely, the Alphacool Eisbaer Aurora 420. I also REQUIRE Thunderbolt 3 for my workflow due to existing infrastructure, and the ONLY way to get Thunderbolt 3 on Threadripper currently is to use the Gigabyte TRX40 Designare XL ATX Motherboard with its Titan Ridge add-on card. So between the 420mm radiator that needs to be top mounted due to the AIO-style pump integrated into the CPU block of the Eisbaer and the XL ATX motherboard, I am going to need a Super Tower class PC case. I need something that has top-tier build quality to stand up to at least a moderate amount of wear and tear that professional use could lead to. I also need high airflow so that I can achieve relatively quiet performance with an ungodly amount of Noctua fans on controlled RPM, as this build, although hidden under a desk, will be in a live environment, so cannot sound like a server room. The only cases I could find so far that were even close to working for me were the Corsair 1000D and the Phanteks Enthoo Elite, but given the outrageous $900 price tag of the Enthoo Elite, I am leaning towards the 1000D for a much more reasonable $500. Here is the crux of the issue though. If they offered the 1000D with a mesh front panel and all steel panels, I would snatch it up immediately! I need something that looks professional and is rugged. No tempered glass. No RGB. No Gamer Anything. And this is my problem, because if they sold the 1000D in a variant with those features, it would probably only cost like $300-$400, more reasonable and exactly what I need. But search as I did, I was unsuccessful in finding a single company that was selling Super Tower sized cases aimed for a professional business market. I was forced to get the RGB version of the Eisbaer, as the non-RGB version does not support the sTRX4 socket. So other than that single piece of equipment and the RAM, I want everything blacked out, no lights, no bling, no glass, nothing. Just pure utilitarian functional design. So TLDR: Please help me does anyone know of any PC case manufacturers that are creating Super Tower sized cases that have zero bling, no glass, no RGB, only professional, utilitarian, rugged, functional, well built cases for my HEDT Workstation build. Thanks so much in advance for any advice that anyone can offer to help me out, Molte Bene, Bene Vale, Hunter Stout

Okay so hear me out, Samsung have been pixel binning since the S7. Imagine you need an 8 core CPU, but a 10990k isn't good enough. Why not get something like a Threadripper 3990X, something with 64 Cores that boost to 4.3GHz, and then somehow (on a hardware but non-permanent level) bin them into 8, monster cores that theoretically boost to 34GHz (assuming it worked like raid 0) per core. I can't think of a reason as to why this is a good idea, but.. is it possible?

Hello. I have an engineering company and i was wondering if i could buy a maxed out PC and have my 15 engineers run solidworks in VMs instead of buying one pc for each one of them. If the answer is yes how can i do it? i was planning to buy 3990x titan RTX*2 256gig of quad channel memory at 3200MHz and anything else that is needed.

Hi, I'm new here so hello everyone! :) I'm looking for help with my rig, no matter what I do I can't cool that thing down at all. Plus there are some other (minor?) issues, that maybe someone will be able to help me with. So specs first: CPU: AMD Threadripper 3970x GPU: Gigabyte Windforce GeForce 970 (yeah, that's not a gaming machine) RAM: 8x32GB GSkill RipJawsV 3200MHz (yes, I know 3600MHz would be better but I learned this too late) PSU: Corsair HX1200i Drives: 3x 1TB Corsair MP600 Case: Phanteks Evolv X OS: Windows 10 Enterprise Cooling: continue reading ;) I'm quite happy with this thing but not with temperatures. I went through variety of coolers: Fractal Celsius S36 AIO Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 Air Cooler EKWB EK-Velocity sTR4 Let's get Noctua out of the picture first - idle temps were around 45-50C with fan on 100% RPM during winter days. Lower the fan and you're looking at 60-70C in idle. Next Celsius S36 - I was running this thing for last four months getting idle temps around 40-50C (50C were spikes but general lower half of 40C in idle). I could live with it but summer came and now with ambient around 25-27C my idle temps with Fractal's S36 jumped up by around 10C, to low 50-ish C. Start Visual Studio or a mere browser and I'm at 60C with fans ramping up. So it came time for big guns. I was like "ok, this thing costed me so much already, no cutting corners, let's go big". So I bought bag of EKWB's goodness: EK-Velocity sTR4 Water Block EK-Quantum Reflection Evolv X Distro Plate (D5 PWM pump included) EK-CoolStream Classic PE 360 Radiator (it's largest I can fit in that case... barely) 3x EK-Vardar EVO 120ER Fans Clear CryoFuel, soft tubes and bunch of connectors, ports, valves, leak testers and what not. For price alone I would buy another computer but hey, it looked so damn good on pictures and promised so much performance. I've done and checked everything: rinsed the radiator (it took like two days alone to take all the debris out of there), removed as much air bubbles as I virtually could (there still are some that I can't do anything about). Leak testing with air, leak testing with water etc. Long story short: this whole EKWB thing is performing WORSE than Fractal's Celsius S36. My idle temps are around 47-55C, run anything and say hello to 60-65C. Cinebench R20 - 77-83C after 60s run. This is ridiculous! I didn't expect miracle but at lest these 5-10C less in idle and more stable under light load (like web browser or Visual Studio). Tuning pump and radiator fans doesn't do much, of course if I set down pump to lowest settings temps are all over the place, so I need to keep it around 75-100% (3500-4000RPM) just to get 5-10C worse temps than cheap AIO gave me! At this point I'm almost giving up. Around $800 (good thing I can save on taxes as it would get well beyond $1000 otherwise) went down the drain and I'm close to throwing this junk to garbage bin and get back to Fractal's AIO. Not to mention it looks way worse than slick two tubes, no plate & no pump design Fractal has (also my EK branded tubes, with EK's own clear CryoFuel turned opaque, what you can see on attached photos), the production quality is mediocre (scuff on water block, visible scratches on inside portion of distro plate etc.). So you guys are my last resort I think. What I could do wrong? I'm a noob if it comes to custom loops, the tubing isn't the top-notch like seen on YouTube, but I can see the flow is quite rapid. Pictures of it all attached below. I know this question will come, so as for the thermal paste I used only Thermal Grizzly's Kryonaut for all setups mentioned above. With different application methods: 9 dots, even spread with "credit card", 12 dots, lines, blobs, you name it. Today I was to resocket the CPU and reapply paste and block again but run out of thermal paste again, so that has to wait till delivery early next week. I'm also thinking about ordering another bottle of coolant liquid and reflushing this whole thing (only thing that holds me out is yet another air bleeding process). Again: please help me out if you can, any directions, any tips what I can do to make this EKWB stuff running at least as good as Fractal's AIO if not little better, would be welcome. This is how it looks like: ps. As you can see I'm trying to cool only CPU, hence the short-circuit on the GPU ports. If I would hook up GPU to this thing also, it would surely catch fire.

I am pretty new to PC space and configuring an all out build with 3090. I have my reason to choose a pre-build over building a PC myself(Main one being a unit warranty, I don't permanently live in the US, and being able to handle all warranties trough a single source is much easier for me) Seeing the LTT videos on pre-builds, I have decided to go with IBuyPower, and have configured 3 options of the same PC, and wanted to know if its better to change something or not. https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-3rd-Gen-Configurator/W/1135146 https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/AMD-Ryzen-9-Configurator/W/1135147 https://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel-X299-Core-i9-Configurator/W/1135144 Since I am pretty new to this, I wanted to find out if Intel has any redeeming qualities except the reliability right now? Also how much worse is Threadripper for gaming compared to Ryzen 9? P.S. I know about the upcoming AMD launch, but cannot wait for it. I have been a Mac/Console user my whole life, so Custom PC is a new topic for me. That is why after my own research online, I wanted to know what is the best call here from people, who spend more time with this stuff.