Hi Alex, I am planning to build a dual EPYC 7742 rendering system and did a lot of research in this forum. People's discussion around the overheating issue of SM motherboard makes me feel it is probably not so wise to use SM motherboard. I was thinking to change to Gigabyte MZ72 HB0 motherboard but it is very expensive and difficult to buy.
So I saw your post here. Would appreciate if you can give me some insight of resolving the SM overheating issue. Let me tell you a bit about the current system I have which I would like to upgrade:
- This build is going to be sitting in my Caselabs THW10 (which is a huge box for watercooling) as photo shown below
- Currently it has 2x E5 2696 v3 CPUs and 7x 1080Ti (I do both CPU and GPU rendering)
- It has 4x 560 radiator (1x for CPU loop and the other 3x for GPU loop)
After the upgrade the 7x 1080Ti GPU will be replaced by 3x or 4x 30 series GPUs which are also watercooled
So my questions are:
1) Are you running CPU intensive program? I will use this system to render 3D graphics and it can be kept running at 100% for hours. I am not sure if your test (which is really nice temperature) is based on short time task
2) How do you mount the 3d-printed memory cooler onto the motherboard? I have 3D printer and would like to do the same if necessary.
3) Do I really need to cool the RAM if what I am using are not RAM intensive? I usually will do 3D modeling in another workstation (faster single CPU clock) and use network rendering to render the graphics in this water-cooled build. The rendering is not so RAM intensive.
Thank you in advance!