eATX processor temperatures and OC?

[fRiend0]

Hello everyone.

I'm currently working on a project where I will use water cooling in addition to something which I'm working on which will improve the efficiency of cooling. The case itself is fairly big and I have an option between atx and e-atx and I've noticed many people use e-atx motherboards for edditing. Since I have minimum knowledge about e-atx boards, I was wondering how is it in terms of thermals? Is overkill cooling needed like on OC builds? Is it even possible to overclock e atx boards? What are the usual temps people are getting on processors?

 

Thank you for your time and answer 

[DocSwag]

e-atx is just a normal ATX board but slightly larger. Just treat it like a larger ATX motherboard. So if it has a chipset that can OC yes, it can overclock. It doesn't really affect thermals that much, really. The point of e-atx is if ATX isn't big enough to fit everything that needs to be put on a (usually) high end motherboard so then you go for e-atx which gives you more space.

 

Don't treat e-atx as it's own sort of entity. And I can't tell you temps on processors or anything. It depends on your cooler, CPU, and clock speeds more than anything else.

[bgibbz]

afaik, eATX boards are simply bigger. They have more headers on them, and maybe better VRMs.

[fRiend0]

does then for example video editing require different processors than standard let's say i7? I've noticed that most of the eatx boards have 2 processor slots, and in guides about eatx boards pretty much everyone says it is used for servers or video editing stations.

[fRiend0]

I will make it easier for everyone to understand my problem.... I'm working on my bachelor project in mechanical engineering with specialization on innovation and design.

 

My project is a desk with computer inside and I've noticed comments on Lian-Li's DK-04 desk that people would love to have eATX boards inside. I plan to water cool it with addition of something which I'm working on which will increase the efficiency of cooling of processors for better overclocking. However that something of course increases cost and power requirements. eATX boards are new thing to me and I've noticed that most of them have slots for 2 processors. That kind-off messes up my plans as the cost would increase, maybe a lot, maybe not. 

 

As  Doc said:

26 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

e-atx is just a normal ATX board but slightly larger. Just treat it like a larger ATX motherboard.

Are then video editing stations better with 2 processors? or why do people prefer eATX boards over standard atx ones?

 

Thank you

[SLAYR]

2 hours ago, fRiend0 said:

does then for example video editing require different processors than standard let's say i7? I've noticed that most of the eatx boards have 2 processor slots, and in guides about eatx boards pretty much everyone says it is used for servers or video editing stations.

No, you can use any cpu for processing you don't need a specific one, just that some work better then others for certian tasks.

 

Eatx is usally for dual socket boards, or even quad socket in a few cases just to fit all the necessary components, it is mainly used for servers and such since they typically need as many cores as they can get.

2 hours ago, fRiend0 said:

 

I will make it easier for everyone to understand my problem.... I'm working on my bachelor project in mechanical engineering with specialization on innovation and design.

 

 

 

Depending on the programs you are using you want to tailor your hardware accordingly.

 

For example programs like Solidworks I would recommend a dual xeon cpu setup with 10-14 cores per cpu, with a nvidia quadro card as well, but for video editing that same rig may be extremely slow because the program may not use all of the cpu cores, or the cuda acceleration provided by the quadro.

 

2 hours ago, fRiend0 said:

I plan to water cool it with addition of something which I'm working on which will increase the efficiency of cooling of processors for better overclocking.

There are no modern dual socket motherboards that allows for overclocking, and if this is for professional work I would advise you to stay away from overclocking as it just causes instabilities, having your computer crash in the middle of a project never is helpful.

[DocSwag]

10 hours ago, fRiend0 said:

I will make it easier for everyone to understand my problem.... I'm working on my bachelor project in mechanical engineering with specialization on innovation and design.

 

My project is a desk with computer inside and I've noticed comments on Lian-Li's DK-04 desk that people would love to have eATX boards inside. I plan to water cool it with addition of something which I'm working on which will increase the efficiency of cooling of processors for better overclocking. However that something of course increases cost and power requirements. eATX boards are new thing to me and I've noticed that most of them have slots for 2 processors. That kind-off messes up my plans as the cost would increase, maybe a lot, maybe not. 

 

As  Doc said:

Are then video editing stations better with 2 processors? or why do people prefer eATX boards over standard atx ones?

 

Thank you

There are editing stations with two processors but they use Xeon processors so you can't overclock. 

 

The main reason people prefer e-atx is because they tend to have more features than atx boards purely because they have more space on them to put more features on. They also usually cost more.

 

The e-atx boards with two CPU slots are mostly designed for servers and tend to cost a lot. They also can't use i5s or i7s but are limited to Xeons only. There are a lot of enthusiast motherboards out there that are e-atx; as a matter of fact I can't think of more than a few top of the top of the line motherboards that aren't e-atx. Here's an example of an enthusiast e-atx motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132838&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Motherboards+-+Intel-_-N82E16813132838&gclid=Cj0KEQiApqTCBRC-977Hi9Ov8pkBEiQA5B_ipVuvQZUU04z-WNI5NPe6bTVVVo6W-4XlgvWtD8ETccMaAgCL8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds