Tis the season for... Threadripper 1950X

It wasn't too long ago when I performed the "sidegrade" surgery on my rig upgrading from the Blue team (Intel) Core-i7 4770K to the Red team (AMD) Ryzen 7 1800X.

The system I built four years ago was future proofed and it could have probably kept going strong for another four years but lets be realistic, the depreciation value would have made them worthless for resale at that one.

Since then excluding the above mentioned "sidegrade" there was only one major upgrade; moving from my Radeon 290X to a Geforce GTX 1070.

Jumping on the bandwagon I decided to stay with the Red team and go Threadripper. We know all the saying "bigger is better" right? Well in the case of Threadripper it definitely holds true.

Not only does it benefit from the new Ryzen architecture but blows away the competition in price-to-performance ratios and overall performance. While there is always bias when it comes to testing the 1950X still holds its owns.

If you're interested in the benchmarks there are plenty of sites to read up on or YouTube channels to read. I personally am a fan of Linus and JayzTwoCents.

I present you with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor. The unadulterated big brother of the Ryzen line processors.

I still can't get over how tech-sexy this chip is. Yep... I said it, tech-sexy. While you may say I feel that way because it's something shiny and new. Please keep in mind that this processor has been sitting on my desk for about two weeks.

On to the building...

So here is my rig fully disassembled down to the bare bones of the Case Labs M8 chassis. It was quite dusty and had some caked on fine dust which needed to be wiped down prior to rebuilding.

 You will notice the mark ups I made in this photo. These are double end threaded Bitspower Fillport/Pass-thru fittings. These are great for limiting the amount of tubing required to pass from one side of the case to the other. You can just plug in any fittings on either side but in my case Alphacool 1/2" OD hard line compression fittings. Not to mention they offer better support to hard line tubing than it just dangling through a pass hole.

I did make some minor changes on the path of my CPU loop from my previous build factoring in that  I was using hard line tubing this time around.

 After cleaning all my hardware; including the radiator and blocks I reinstalled/remounted everything. One obvious change was that I moved the Aquacomputer flow meter up top like I had original planned four years ago. The hard line tubing made the placement easier than using tygon which would have been sloppy and saggy.

Before I proceed to the next picture I will admit that I thought executing the bends for hard line tubing was much easier. This wasn't the case, I'm definitely glad that I purchased that extra 4-pack of tubing for the learning curve. It always seems so much easier watching tutorials on YouTube doesn't it?

Here is my first bend, this one wasn't difficult but there were some where I had one or two remakes in order to get the bends and lengths perfect. JayzTwoCents was definitely right about one thing in his YouTube tutorial, eyeballing your measurements and bends was much easier then actually trying to measure with a ruler; it really is an art form.