ThreadRipper Workstation 3

Thavion Hawk · January 31, 2019

So if you've seen my posts before, I've already built two other Thread Ripper Systems. The first, a mATX build was a special order for a scientist doing weather modeling. He needed a small enough system he could take in his luggage on the flight home to South America. That special order of parts resulted in a multiple ordering errors that caused a total of Three Motherboards, Two CPU's, Two AIO's and Three sets of RAM to be ordered. The second Full ATX Thread Ripper build was meant to clear out the spare Mobo, CPU and RAM, but that build still left us with an all but use less X399 Motherboard.

After selling the second Full ATX Thread Ripper build in far less time then expected, the store manager agreed to order another CPU, Cooler and RAM to build a Third Thread Ripper system for sale to use the last of the Three motherboards. At the moment of this post I'm still waiting on the GPU and SSD for that build but I want to start this thread ahead of time listing the parts I'll be using(Partly because I have nothing else to do at work atm)

Okay all there Preamble is over, Here's the parts list so far.

CPU: Thread Ripper 2920X

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3(For all the posters complaining about our using a 120mm CLC on the past two builds, here's a special order, TR4 Full Cover Tower Cooler. I'd have used this on the other builds, but mATX build had to be small, light and survive International Air Travel while the first Full ATX build was build to use up the redundant parts ordered)

Motherboard: ASRock x399 Taichi (Ordered by mistake because the only mATX x399 Motherboard is the ASRock x399m Taichi.)

Memory: 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400Mhz (Picked from Motherboard QVL for Max compatibility)

GPU: ASRock RX580 8GB (Brand may change, but its going to be an RX580 8GB. Manager wants it to be an all AMD build, I just want to build it)

PSU: EVGA 1000 GQ (We've had this thing on sale for $139 for months but no takers. That's below Amazon's Price! Finally talked the boss into using it in this build)

SSD: 500GB Samsung 970 EVO (Only Storage as built, but we already have a buyer on the line for this thing and he's looking to ad in a HDD RAID)

OS: Windows 10 Pro

So that's the build, Our Sale Price for it is $2,193. You can do the math and look at our markup for it if you like. I'll have parts and build photos soon. At this point I'm tired of waiting for the SSD and GPU so I may as well build the thing and put them in last. The GPU's the last thing that goes in anyways.

Firewrath9 · January 31, 2019

I'd not get an asrock rX 580, as they tend to have bad cooling, and thus is loud. I'd reccommend Sapphire's cards, or XFX, or MSI (non-armor), or asus (non-dual) as they have better cooling and noise.

that build looks great aswell.

Thavion Hawk · January 31, 2019

27 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

I'd not get an asrock rX 580, as they tend to have bad cooling, and thus is loud. I'd reccommend Sapphire's cards, or XFX, or MSI (non-armor), or asus (non-dual) as they have better cooling and noise.

that build looks great aswell.

I recommended Sapphire and personally use ASUS cards, but the manager wanted the cheapest RX580 8GB and the Phantom Gaming looks to be that at the moment. This system isn't being built to be silent though, so long as the card works and runs cool enough to keep working, it's all good. Honestly given the price and quality of the other parts this is about the only thing in the system being skimped on.