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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by bicknyers on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:51PM (#23850724)
Also if you go air cooling and are confident with your abilities, consider delidding to drop temps. more (5 to 20C). If you go air cooling I would assume it is on the basis of long term stability, so don't use liquid metal either. Also invest in a nice PSU (gold minimum) with your peak load pulling only 75% of the rated max wattage

Edit: Like most things look at components real-world testing figures, in this case, wattage, as opposed to TDP when planning

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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by formerly_proven on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:57PM (#23851697)
TR is a nine die CPU that is pretty difficult to delid and the improvement is minimal, nowhere near "5 to 20 C". It's not a 7700K.
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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by bicknyers on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:57PM (#23852606)
Yeah to be fair I was basing my numbers on past projects namely Intel. I haven't looked at TR specifically just offered up the suggestion for those who have never heard of it to look into
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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by eightysixfour on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:25PM (#23852098)
Ryzen CPUs are soldered, delidding has minimal impact.
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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by formerly_proven on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:18PM (#23852928)
To be honest I can't recall any AMD CPUs that weren't soldered... apart from those that didn't have an IHS in the first place ;)

Intel was just like "we can save 4 $ BOM cost on a 500 $ part there" with their 4th-9th generation of CPUs. No thermal headroom? No problem.

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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by formercoder on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:21PM (#23854667)
0.8%? Could be worth billions.
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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by bicknyers on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:54PM (#23852559)
My mistake, I thought Ryzen CPUs were still bonded with silicone and a ??? grade paste on the IHS
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