Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Just How Good Is The 24 Core Threadripper? A Build”.
Retail therapy time we’re going to do a thread. Ripper build 24 cores aod, I’m going to do something a little unusual, we’re building it in a Corsair, 5000d cuz. I like what corsair’s done to be creative with the plastic and the metal. I actually picked all this up at Micro Center and I built the uh 5000d system uh built in the case in in a system that we gave away, and I really liked it and I wanted to revisit it, and I’ve also got some some other Hardware. We’Re going to revisit like our interax AO, this one is a couple of years old now so we’ll see how it does. My preference is probably on air cooling at this point, because the Arctic freezer 4um gets it done, especially when we’re talking about 24 and 32 cores, but we’re going to try it in this system see how it goes.
Uh, let’s get started with the build for the rest of the build. I was really split between Gill memory and Kingston Beast the Beast Fury, the Beast: Fury memory is really good stuff and it seems really stable in this platform, especially when we’re talking about eight memory channels, so I’m probably going to go with Kingston Beast Fury also picked Up an Asus, tough power supply th000 Watts because it was on fire sale at Micro Center. I don’t know why the gigabyte aod motherboard it’s the least of the tx50 motherboards and yet it’ll get the job done and it’s got built-in Thunderbolt.
It’S the only tx50 board that has Thunderbolt built right in, although you can get Thunderbolt compatibility, USB 4 pcie tunneling on WR rx90. It’S not strictly Thunderbolt is an Intel technology. This cannot be called Thunderbolt, but Thunderbolt is a pcie tunneling technology usb4 can be a PC, tunneling technology. You can get that on thread, Ripper, believe it or not.
Let’S get building. I really like all the extra velcro straps. These are true straps.
The Corsair includes in their case, along with all the other screws and everything else standoffs you name it now. The Nvidia, peripheral, cable that came with this power supply is uh. The 600 watt variety, the 600 wat 15 pin variety, but it comes with another. More interesting. Cable, which is the Nvidia style, connector 600 watts to dual 8 pen power.
It’S a very nice premium, braided cable! You can definitely tell that Asus is doing something premium. Another interesting thing that Asus has done is that your power cable, so the power supply, has the Nvidia style, 16 pin connector and you can go to the standard, Nvidia style, 16 pin breakout or you can get the pcie power connectors like the large. You can get two eight pin or one smaller 16 pin, but there’s only a single connector on the power supply. So you got to pick.
You want this cable for team red or this cable for power supplies for Team Green cuz. It’S 16 pound on both ends. See it’s a it’s an interesting situation.
This is definitely a power supply where Asus did not consider. If you were going to run like dual 407s, I guess SLI. It really is that dead.
Is he crazy to use an Asus power SP in a Corsair case? It it doesn’t matter, it’s fine, listen! You know, Corsair has done something right if I can make the cables. Look that good as lazy as I am. Here’S our more or less complete build in the Corsair 5000d. I’Ve got to add a phantom gaming, 7900 XT GPU XT, not XTX. The pricing is changing recently because of new gpus and everything like that and aero’s got a cool little AI tool that works on their gpus they’ve got a little GPU AI, helper thingy. That was just updated at the end of January 2024, so I want to show you that, but before we do that, remember I mentioned the cooler in this. Yes, the the Arctic 4um may be a better choice but check this out. I don’t know if you can hear that, but that’s what happens when the fans age to be sure. If you contact them, they will warranty it, but as it sort of ramps and lowers the fans, it’s not amazing. It’S it’s! Okay! Now this might sound like I’m. Just doing this to warn you off of buying an intermax cooler and no yes, and no. This is what you get it’s actually not terrible.
As far as aios go, you can definitely get better, but it has insane cooling capacity if you’re going to do PBO. This is far going to outrun an Arctic for you in M, but an Arctic 4um is a zero maintenance option that also isn’t wildly expensive. I don’t know I wish the intermax cooler were better.
I wish the fans that it was bunded with were better, but I can’t complain about inter Max’s warranty, because I actually bought three of these and they have warranty replaced all three of them over the years. 5Year warranty most of them about 2, 2 and 1/ half years in so you can get a better cooler a couple of years in, if you’re willing to go through the headache again they’re doing much better than they were, and it is an incredible AO For Thread. Ripper see it’s not hard to replace a fan.
I really don’t know why more AO manufacturers don’t make a custom cold plate for thread Ripper. It would be awesome. It’S awesome is this, because this cooler does an amazing job of cooling when it’s not gunked up. You see this 32 core thread. Ripper system is going to go head-to-head against this 24 core thread: Ripper system they’re, very, very similar systems, but we’re going to take a look at software development on both Linux and windows because 24 cores versus 32 cores. I don’t think it’s going to make a huge difference, but some of the numbers I’m getting back very surprising because you know 24 cores 32 cores 24 core can clock a little higher.
You have fewer cores, but the 32 core can also clock high. But then also you take into account PBO, so I needed something that would give me a little bit of an overclocking Headroom and my arctic 4um, as in the 32 core system, which is uh based around our ASRock workstation board, and this one is based around our Aod so get subscribed and stay tuned for that video or help me out in the level one for forms. If you have any other anecdotal evidence, probably going to do a path of Titans revisit as well, because threader for 7000 is really interesting when it comes to Unreal development. Now AZ Rock’s, AI, quick set is a neat little utility it’ll help you download shark and automatic 111. Well, a version of automatic 111. That’S designed for AMD gpus, that’s an important distinction, um and some other utilities.
So you can run stable diffusion and have a couple of different ways of downloading models from hugging face to gener images like it’s a whole rabbit hole that you can go down to be sure. Asrock’S utility is designed for ASRock cars, but you don’t have to have an ASRock card in order to use Rockham or stable diffusion or any of the other utilities. This goes with. If you want to set up shark directly yourself, you can there’s just a couple of more steps involved. Somebody might have written a guide for some of this stuff on the level one forums you can check it out whether you’re running Cuda. Even it it’s a thing, but AMD is trying to get more more of their gaming gpus up and running with machine learning, because amd’s Data Center gpus and their uh gaming gpus there’s some there’s some rhyming in the architecture, but they are not the same silicon. The way that it is on uh the Nvidia side, and so this is sort of a fun thing that ASRock has done, and also the update at the end of January, fixed a lot of the stuff that I was tripping over over earlier versions for Windows. So definitely check that out and if you’re into Linux, check out the level one Linux Channel, because we’re going to have both of these systems, the 24 core and the 32 core up and running with quick set AI for Linux Aero is doing special stuff for Linux.
Yes, because things generally run better there when we’re talking about machine learning and everything else I mean even the windows subsystem for Linux gives you access to all kinds of really interesting, AI stuff – that’s not otherwise there, but that is going to have to wait for the Next article, I’m wless level, one I’m signing out, you can find me in the level one forums I .