Holy crap, this thing's fast. I upgraded from a 4 core I7 Intel processor. My old rig couldn't keep up with editing 4K video without badly stuttering. This thing does 4K previews with transitions and effects at something like 20% CPU utilization. I did mate it with a killer graphics card (ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI 11GB), but this CPU deserves the best! I'm not an overclocker, so I'm not pushing the limits, but I suspect this thing has enough horsepower for anything without overclocking.
I had never built a water cooled rig before, but it was pretty straightforward. I used an all in one NZXT Kraken X52 and it works fine.
For the motherboard, I used a ASRock X399 Professional Gaming board, populated it with 64 GB in four 16 GB DDR4 2400 ECC Kingston Valueram. I like the fact that AMD allows this "consumer" CPU the ability to use ECC RAM, unlike Intel which now requires the use of the "server" chips if you want to use ECC.
The only integration glitch I had was installing Windows 10 - I had to disable the IOMMU option in the BIOS (I think it was buried in the Northbridge or Southbridge sub menu).
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz |
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