CAUTION - THE INCLUDED SCREWDRIVER LIKE MANY OTHERS DID NOT RELEASE ON THE RIGHT TENSION! THIS CAN CAUSE DAMAGE IF YOU OVERTIGHTEN!
Aside from the initial issue of the screwdriver; I stopped as I felt it was too much force and watched install videos, confirming I have put about as many turns as they have without it popping out to indicate it's tightened. I would recommend watching these so you don't overtighten as this can damage the motherboards socket or the CPU.
The CPU:
I have long since been an intel fanboy, but not anymore.
Temperatures: With a Noctua TR4 cooler, expect 23C-33C Idle with 40-48C under load. The max I believe I've seen was 53C with a very high amount of CPU usage likely from an unoptimized piece of software.
It runs cooler than all of my intel chips, including one that was watercooled while this is on an air cooler.
Performance: It does everything. At once. You'll need lots of RAM if you want to do everything at once depending on what you do. If you want to play a game, stream said game, render graphics to a file you should get no less than 32GB of 3600 MHz memory, most of these TR4 boards support up to 128GB RAM.
If you do graphics work, video editing, rendering and still want a PC you can use to have fun; this is a great CPU. I'll never get less than this in the future and it makes a quad core look like a toaster.
Normal retail price is $800, it's been on sale often for $200, and moves up to $262 lately. The boards are expensive generally around $250-$350, but well worth the cost to have up to 3 NVMEs, 8 DIMM slots and a high cap of 128GB RAM.
10/10 Highly recommend, and would recommend further Threadripper CPUs they release.
| Processor | 4 GHz ryzen_threadripper_1920x |
|---|---|
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz |
