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My biggest cou loads used to be VB macro churning within high end CATIA or UNIGRAPHICS env, imagine that. 2x4 multicore xeon pkus 96GB did help though. But horrible still
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My current workstation is a build from 2016 with a i7-6950X overclocked substantially (4.5GHz), 64GB DDR4 and a Samsung 960 Pro 2TB.
I wanted to replace it much earlier with Zen 2 Threadripper but I couldn't get the parts. Kept getting delayed until it made no sense anymore.
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The 10 core i7-6950X is competitive for full build compilation with a 24 core Xeon from the same generation and is substantially better for most incremental builds where it's heavily bottlenecked on a couple threads.
It was really good for a couple years but it's awful now.
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When Zen 3 Threadripper comes out, I'll happily pay thousands of dollars to get a 64+ core CPU, nice motherboard and 256GB+ memory to go with it.
Could not wait any longer though, and I'll happily turn this into a replacement for my badly aging gaming PC so it won't be wasted.
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Also, for the time being, I'm going to switch to dual booting on this machine while still also using my older workstation. So, I can either have 2 workstations doing builds or I can be doing gaming on this while also switching over regularly to test new builds on the other, etc.
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I ran a cad design office with two ws x 7 prs, have it all stillb but i bet moore's law did slow down but not to a standstill,.. Awell, benchmarking will get me where i need to go
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Threadripper chips are massive with massive power usage and heat spread across the huge die. They need special coolers and you need a really good one to truly take advantage of them. They bypassed chip density limits with die size. It's a massive server CPU but with high clocks.
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Oil or liquid submersion cooling with funny sounding chemicals would be great for that
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The problem with buying a CPU like amd.com/en/products/cp or amd.com/en/products/cp (the 2 highest end Zen 2 Threadripper chips) is that I wouldn't even trust an AIO cooler to avoid killing them. It has to be reliable air cooling. AIOs are actually worse than air anyways...
icegiantcooling.com is the only way to make 64 core Threadripper work properly without risking that massive investment in a $4000 or $5500 USD CPU if your water cooling loop leaks, etc.
The main issue is that it's such a ridiculous amount of heat from a single huge CPU die.
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NH-D15 works as well as icegiantcooling.com for a more typical CPU. It's as good or perhaps even a bit better at taking away heat from a smaller, denser CPU.
They only have noctua.at/en/nh-u14s-tr4 for Threadripper though and even an NH-D15 version wouldn't be enough for 64c.
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