Episode detail:

Part 06 of 34-- just a couple comments about the x399 Taichi motherboard and installing it


Suggested listening (the music I listened to while building)
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(youtube doesn't do annotations any more and I don't have enough views yet to use "cards" -- so this link will have to do -.- )

Build detail:

AMD makes me happy. I've used them for a long (long) time, but they finally got me to start building my own computers in 2017. My first full solo build was a Ryzen 1700 build in March '17 and it's a bootleg (but great) VM lab. The Winter Oak machine here, however, is the one I've always wanted. It is (going to be, once I get into it) a "budget" 3d animation & rendering workstation (3ds Max, Stingray, VR environment development, Rhino, others) and will be my daily driver for my day job. The build took ~3 weeks in action from ordering to completion. There were no critical issues aside from a serious lack of sleep, food, and mental health. I spent ~2 weeks prior to ordering binge watching YT vids researching parts and learning WC basics (and asking the awesome people at reddit's watercooling group a metric ton of beginner questions). Much love to that incredibly awesome and generous group of people. All day. You know who you are. "Thank you" doesn't even begin to cover it.

The Winter Oak PC is slaying. Editing down the ~30GB of build video for this in 1080p (total ~6h runtime) took 2 nights after work. I haven't started tuning the GPU, but the CPU overclocked to 4.0 on the first try. I also had no problem hitting 3200 on the RAM first try. Initial benchmarks & stress tests have been encouraging (i.imgur.com/x0OPKgr.png). Temperatures are low and suggest the watercooling is really, really, really working. I will likely post more videos with performance & config info as I start to experience what this fat monster can do. I am in love. My life is complete. Thank you for watching. I really, really hope this helps anyone who is enough of a lunatic to try anything *remotely* similar. Cheers

FULL parts & price list (click "Edit This Part List" button to be able to view the URLs for most custom items)
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Core components:
CASE Thermaltake Core P3 Snow Edition
PSU SeaSonic 1000W Gold
MOBO ASRock Taichi x399
CPU AMD Threadripper 1950x OC 4.0Ghz
GPU AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (Air)
RAM G.Skill Trident Z 4x8GB 3200 14 14 14
SSD Samsung 500GB 960 EVO NVMe

Cooling stuff:
EK CPU & GPU water blocks
EK Vardar fans & 480mm XE radiator
Alphacool Eisbecher D5 250mm Reservoir & D5 pump combo
Primochill flex tubing
Barrow fittings


Parts providers/suppliers/distributors:
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local hardware store
local print shop

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