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Patrons Ask GN 30: Heatpipes vs. Vapor Chambers, Steve's Time at Dell
🕑 Added 2019-12-12 07:03:13 +0000 UTC00:21 Streetguru: "#askgn-questions Did you guys ever pick up one of the mining motherboards with like 15+ PCI-e connections? Would it be possible to do blender rendering tests or something on it with a lot of high end GPUs? Maybe a bunch from different generations/vendors for the lols?"
01:31: Nory:" @GN Staff do you have enough LN2 for next week's cpu releases?"
02:12: st33med: "Is Google Stadia with a Chromecast Ultra going to be the disappointment build?"
02:30: Streetguru - "#askgn-questions Any reason Noctua doesn't use Vapor Chambers over Heatpipes? Think only one recent Coolermaster Cooler had a Vapor Chamber. (maybe reach out for comment?) What if you stacked more heatpipes on top of the vapor chamber?"
03:41 jjShibbycray: "@Steve Burke #askgn-questions is 1.4v ok for a daily driver on an 8086k? Delidded, no temps exceed 55C anywhere in hwinfo64 across the entire system (motherboard temps, etc) when gaming, except GPU."
05:44 jjShibbycray - "when you were with Dell were you at the Round Rock campus? If so what did you do there? Seems like you mentioned engineering/testing? And how can I get into something similar?"
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Max Eliaser
The new Threadripper generation you're talking about is already out. It sold out quickly after launch, but they'll restock it soon. But you should probably not build a Threadripper PC unless you already know what you're going to use it for and you already know it benchmarks well in those tasks. AMD has other great high-end CPUs for desktop like the R9 3900X that are far cheaper than Threadripper and probably a better choice for most people.
Steve, I hope you see this, as I have a (not so) quick question I'd love answered for an Intel diehard. I haven't bought a AMD CPU since I believe the late '90s, and have seen how far they have come in the last couple years compared to Intel. I just watched your The Disappointment PC 2019 review, and it's obvious that they are not even close to leading edge today, which I find amazing considering the amount of resources Intel has at their disposal. So for my question, I have watched a couple vids on the current gen of AMDs CPU's, but I thought I also saw a reference to a new one that is about to be released, I believe it was called the Threadripper, which is going to be based upon the basic socket pin count as the current Threadripper version, but will not be backwards compatible. If a person was looking to build one of these systems, would you recommend waiting for the newest version to come out (I believe in earlyish 2020?), so a person would (hopefully at least) be able to have the option of at least a couple gens of CPUs as an upgrade path before it becomes obsolete? I've read a little about ppl being unhappy that this new one is incompatible, as it sounds like AMD has in the past tried to have backwards socket compatibility for at least a couple 3 revs of CPU's before requiring a motherboard upgrade, but I don't know for certain because I really haven't followed AMD. Not sure if it is going to a huge price increase for this next gen, and I also know that you can wait forever for the Next Big Thing to come out, and never upgrade anything, but from the sounds of it, it'll have the latest version of PCI-E, and other interfaces, so it seems like a smart bet to wait. You can of course compress this question down into something manageable for your Q&A, but it'd be great if you could cover it for us Intel guys who haven't paid any attn to AMD for years, if at all. Thanks!
Good !!
Max Eliaser
I'm into this idea.
GadgetBlues
Hey Steve, regarding the 5500 XT, it would be interesting if you could do a quick test to see if running it on a PCIe 4.0 platform would reduce the 4GB version frame timing variation (since presumably the frame times are illustrating data traveling over the bus into the smaller frame buffer).
