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  1. I have the Gigabyte x399 Aorus Gaming 7 and am enjoy it! I haven't put it through any major rigors or tests yet but so far it's holding up pretty well! I was able to get it for about $300 USD during the Black Friday shenanigans this year, so it definitely helped be a deciding factor.
  2. Hey! Well it's all built and turned on! I haven't really had a chance to sit down and stress test it yet but it's going strong so far. The ram I purchased seems to be running flawlessly at 3200mhz after enabling XMP in the BIOS so that's good! Still I believe G.SKILL's c14 3200 ram is going to be you're best bet. Mine's c16 which means it'll be a tad slower. Again, I'm sure I'll never notice. The fact it's running at 3200 is good enough for me! Just need another set of 2x8's... I haven't done any overclocking yet. I'll probably try to push the Threadripper up to 4.0 once I get more established. With the Enermax TR4 360 I don't think it'll be any issue at all. I do REALLY like how you can use AMD's Ryzen Master to tweak everything in Windows [I'm running Win 10 Pro]. I haven't toyed with it too much but it seems I can easily switch between profile settings for different needs. So I can easily hop in, set it to a higher clock speed when I about to do something more demanding instead of it running at that speed all the time! I'm running a 960 EVO 500gb myself with the same intention, OS/programs/download folder/major files. I have 2x 850 EVO 250gb SSDs in my old rig that I'll clean up and transfer to my new one. I don't know too much about RAID, but in my mind having the two would be good for temp scratch files and sim files? I hope to also get heavily into Houdini. I'm definitely interested in what everyone thinks about RAIDing them. I've heard mixed thoughts on it. Just for fun, here's the PCPartPicker of my build so far. Fortunately I was able to shave some costs on almost all the parts and already have the monitors/keyboard/mouse/speakers. I'm stoked to see the monster you finally bring to life! - Brad
  3. Hey! I bought the ram I did before I really started to dig into which ram was actually best suited for the x399. I'm more of a hobbyist so I'm trying to find the balance between power/affordable/fun. I'm setting myself up for one of those wonky RGB clown fart builds! Here's what I purchased. Corsair Vengeance RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) C16 -Intel 100/200 Series PC memory CMR16GX4M2C3200C16 As stated above, I am counting on BIOS updates to kind of round-out the whole compatibility issues with different dimm modules. Hopefully I'll have all the parts later today and start working on the build tonight. I'll definitely report back with my findings of how this ram performs. To be completely honest, one of the main reasons I went with the ram selection I did is for the RGB ability and it's compatibility with Corsair Link/Commander Pro. After doing more research (barring my results this evening), I'm leaning more toward G.Skill TridentZ. They have this listed as their Threadripper ram. It's proven hard to find the GTZRX variant, whereas the GTZR is more common. I don't know if this is all a gimmick, and the 'X' is just an indicator it's a 4-pack (quad channel) kit or actually provides better performance. If RGB's not your thing, you can definitely find the same ram in your standard design, and cheaper (slightly!). Again, after some BIOS updating I might be in luck with the sticks I already purchased. I missed the boat and all the C14/3200 GTZR ram is sold out... booo! ---------- I really don't think you'll regret going 1080ti(!), though I really can't touch on which brand is better. If the fun-dage was there I'd be going that route as well! After some debating I think I will upgrade my GTX 770 3gb to a GTX 1060 6gb. Not a terribly expensive upgrade, and should be almost twice as powerful. Hopefully it'll tide me over until this GPU pricing dabacle settles into a bad memory! Best of luck! - Brad
  4. Hey! I just recently joined the AMD 1950x club myself! Micro Center has a KILLER deal on it right now, $700 USD. I went ahead and got a Gigabyte x399 Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard with it too at a discount. Thought it's all sitting in their boxes still (still waiting on other parts). I've been trying to do as much research as I can as well. While Intel's new chips seem to outshine AMD in the single threaded, for the most part Threadripper's multithreaded is incredible. Again, being able to get mine as cheap as I did definitely helped with the decision. I too snagged the same Enermax AIO as well and look forward to getting it here soon. As for ram, that seems to be the biggest conundrum so far. From my understanding ram with a CAS of 14 (C14) is ideal for getting the most out of a Ryzen chip. As for speed, I'm not sure how big of a difference 3000 vs 3200 will make. For me I'm sure I'd never notice it. Also it seems ram built off the Samsung b-die architecture if best for Ryzen. The TR4 build is quad channel which supposedly means it runs most efficiently with 4 or 8 dimms. With ram being so terribly expensive now I only ordered 2x8gb sticks for now. It won't be optimal, but at least it'll be enough to get it up and running. Hopefully prices come down and I can start maxing out those slots! I'm going to use my old GTX 770 for the time being. A new GPU isn't in the "cards" (pun intended!) right now. So I really can't comment on the GPU aside from more vram the better. I do know that Nvidia cards use Cuda Cores which, depending on your application of choice, can be very important. Well I hope this helps! Definitely not an expert so feel free to fact-check all this. Best wishes on your build! I hope to have mine up this weekend. - Brad Here's a thread I've been browsing to try to make sense of it all.
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