FrostRipper - A new project

[stealth80]

Hi,

     So I recently sold my was current PC, Temporal Snow - mainly due to me and my wife splitting and needing some fast cash for obvious reasons and also because I don't game as much as I used to. That said, I still have a passion for building these things, so I'm currently thinking about another project, let me know what you think! I thinking right now that the 1900X and 1080ti will be place holders for the 2920X and the 2080ti!

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 1900X 3.8GHz 8-Core Processor  (£259.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X399 DESIGNARE EX ATX TR4 Motherboard  (£355.12 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£379.99 @ Corsair UK) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£147.59 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£163.19 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB STRIX GAMING Video Card  (£740.39 @ Aria PC) 
Case: Lian-Li - PC-O11DW ATX Full Tower Case  (£114.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 (EU) 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Keyboard: SteelSeries - Apex M750 UK Wired Gaming Keyboard  (£99.98 @ Novatech) 
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse  (£49.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £2395.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-17 19:44 BST+0100

 

Of course it will be water-cooled so add another £600 for that 

[TVwazhere]

2 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Hi,

     So I recently sold my was current PC, Temporal Snow

RIP Temporal Snow, 2017-2018

 

I approve of the case though. It shouldnt force you to mod the case like the 303 did

[TheGlenlivet]

I have that board with a 1950X.  Reliable so far.

The EK second gen Monoblock with VRM cooling works great too if you want to cool VRMs.

[stealth80]

4 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

I have that board with a 1950X.  Reliable so far.

The EK second gen Monoblock with VRM cooling works great too if you want to cool VRMs.

I didn't know they did a mono for it that is good to know! Seems the 2920x will be aroubd £500 so not too terrible 

[TheGlenlivet]

3 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

I didn't know they did a mono for it that is good to know! Seems the 2920x will be aroubd £500 so not too terrible 

You have to take the whole board apart and ditch the VRM cooling fan to use it, but it's available.

Good luck!

[stealth80]

Not fully sold on Threadripper yet though, im well aware I will get more FPS with a 8700k especially with a 2080ti (speculating here) 

[TheGlenlivet]

4 hours ago, stealth80 said:

Not fully sold on Threadripper yet though, im well aware I will get more FPS with a 8700k especially with a 2080ti (speculating here) 

Oh yeah.  If you are primarily gaming then don't go x399.  These things are content creator/heavy multitasking systems, not gaming.

They can game, but it's a waste of money to go that way.

The new 9900K will do a better job (probably) gaming while still offering 16 threads for any multitasking you need to do and the watercooling parts will be more available.

[stealth80]

2 hours ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Oh yeah.  If you are primarily gaming then don't go x399.  These things are content creator/heavy multitasking systems, not gaming.

They can game, but it's a waste of money to go that way.

The new 9900K will do a better job (probably) gaming while still offering 16 threads for any multitasking you need to do and the watercooling parts will be more available.

Ye that is my concern, I just think the TR builds look awesome