Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 Review: Silent Threadripper Overclocking

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jpe1701

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How big of a difference is it to cool one of the higher core count Threadripper chips? It would be interesting to see one of the coolers already tested with the 1900x on the 1950x just to see the difference.
 

tamalero

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My only gripe of the threadripper design and these kind of coolers is, they throw ALL the hot air into the second memory channel group. And this can cause instability on high clocked rams.
 

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Noctua's typical strategy seems to prevail - premium quality/performance but at a premium price. As long as a majority of that premium price goes into a better product i'm all game for that.
 

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We're looking to source a high-core TR-2 CPU for ongoing Threadripper testing. When we originally started our TR4 testing, it was difficult to also source Threadripper chips for a time, so we went with the 1900X.
 

paul prochnow

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Does that thermal imaging suggest you cook two RAM stickS ? ? ?
at $80 liquid cool is not far higher and would get the THERMALs
outta der case, Rudy ! ! !
 

rubix_1011

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PC hardware is designed for much higher temperatures than we are, so 'cooking' something would require temps usually in excess of 100C (212F, the boiling point of water).

Also, the airflow over the motherboard components is likely more beneficial to the memory DIMMs than the lack of it with a liquid cooling solution.

Another also - DDR4 runs much cooler overall than DDR3 and certainly cooler than DDR2.
 
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