Workstation Build -CPU & Cooler Help ?

[dashpuppy]

I just bought my Fractal Torrent case to mate with my Supermicro X11SPI-TF board. I'm planning on buying a RTx5070 later.

I'm building a workstation to move over to linux & do video Editing with DaviniciResolve Studio.

My question is, what CPU should i be looking for that will be good for a workstation & video editing rig ? Xeon Gold 6252 ? 6244 or suggestions ?

After that, what would be a good QUIET high airflow cooler that people would recommend ? The noctua Noctua NH-D9 is 200$ canadian but is it good enough ?

Right now its running on a cardboard box so i could update all firmwares and make sure everything is running.

Stock is running a Xeon Silver 4114 128g ECC ram with a 1tb nvme drive.

 

[zachj]

I’d suggest skipping skylake if you want to keep the rig for many years; while cascade lake isn’t meaningfully better, it’s technically a newer generation and so likely will be supported for longer by software companies.

If you don’t plan to keep it for many years I’d say save a zillion bucks and go skylake.

for your use case I assume the gpu will do the vast majority of the heavy lifting so I’m not sure how much benefit you’ll get from a cpu upgrade. But I don’t know anything about davinci resolve.

 

[dashpuppy]

I’d suggest skipping skylake if you want to keep the rig for many years; while cascade lake isn’t meaningfully better, it’s technically a newer generation and so likely will be supported for longer by software companies.

If you don’t plan to keep it for many years I’d say save a zillion bucks and go skylake.

for your use case I assume the gpu will do the vast majority of the heavy lifting so I’m not sure how much benefit you’ll get from a cpu upgrade. But I don’t know anything about davinci resolve.

THis is what i got, so this is what i will be working with. After im done using this for a year or 2 i'll skip over to Threadripper !

 

[nexox]

The 6240R is my favorite for that socket, but your board can probably do higher TDP than mine. You'd need to check with their support, but last I looked if you buy a new Noctua for a more recent LGA socket they will mail you the adapter brackets for LGA3647 for free (though it may take a couple weeks.) The Supermicro SNK-P0070APS4 also works well, they're about $70 US.

 

[dashpuppy]

The 6240R is my favorite for that socket, but your board can probably do higher TDP than mine. You'd need to check with their support, but last I looked if you buy a new Noctua for a more recent LGA socket they will mail you the adapter brackets for LGA3647 for free (though it may take a couple weeks.) The Supermicro SNK-P0070APS4 also works well, they're about $70 US.

Before you replied i bought the Dynatron B11 for 70$ to give a shot. Since the Noctua is like 200$.

Now to buy a new PSU with the new 12V plug for newer video cards like the 5070. THEN buy a 5070

 

[nexox]

That Dynatron is decent except the fan is a custom shape so you can't swap it with a generic size, not a big deal though.

 

[dashpuppy]

That Dynatron is decent except the fan is a custom shape so you can't swap it with a generic size, not a big deal though.

I was actually thinking about taking the fan off, then seeing the thermals, i have the Fractal Torrent case, and the airflow is so amazing. I wish i could have found a 4-5u large heatsinked cooler for this case. It has the 140mm fans pushing tons of quiet coll air through the case.

 

[nexox]

It has the 140mm fans pushing tons of quiet coll air through the case.

Unless you have a duct forcing the air through the CPU cooler it will almost all go around, also 140mm fans often don't provide much static pressure to really move air through a cooler with dense fins like that.

 

[dashpuppy]

Unless you have a duct forcing the air through the CPU cooler it will almost all go around, also 140mm fans often don't provide much static pressure to really move air through a cooler with dense fins like that.

Yeah, thats why i said maybe if it was like a big 5u tall one. I have access to a Plastics shop where they could make me a plastic shroud, but meh, the new B11 might work, going to give it a try. the amount of air that is being pushed through this chassis with dual 140mm's is insane. Everything in the case is stone cold, been running it for 3 days playing 4k video & running lots of tasks.

now to change the cpu soon too, better then a 4114.

 

[dashpuppy]

Take note though, there is no Fan2 or Fan A&B. Not sure why its reporting that but I moved all fans to the Fractal Fan controller. Set the system to have fans at 100% then used the Noctua Low Noise Adapters to keep the fans all at same RPM and pushing air through case quietly.

 

[nexox]

You have to reset the BMC after you remove a fan or it's going to think there's a failure, not just an empty header.

Two 140mm fans seems kind of low, not insane, I have a high static pressure 140mm intake ducted directly into each of my two NH D9 coolers, which still have the 92mm center fan, plus a couple more 140mm exhaust fans and another 140mm intake blowing over my U.2 drives, and I still hit 75C on one CPU under load, so I'm going to need to tweak things more when I get those 6240Rs.

 

[dashpuppy]

You have to reset the BMC after you remove a fan or it's going to think there's a failure, not just an empty header.

Two 140mm fans seems kind of low, not insane, I have a high static pressure 140mm intake ducted directly into each of my two NH D9 coolers, which still have the 92mm center fan, plus a couple more 140mm exhaust fans and another 140mm intake blowing over my U.2 drives, and I still hit 75C on one CPU under load, so I'm going to need to tweak things more when I get those 6240Rs.

Sorry, i meant 2 x 180mm fans, not 140's.