WDBeaver posted at 1:16PM Sun, 26 April 2020 - #4387375

How's your cpu temp, hornet? That Corsair cooler has a square block, so it only covers about 70% of the actual processor. I use a Noctua NHU-12S air cooler, which is one of two air solutions out there. I add a second 120mm fan to it for a push pull air flow system, and so far I haven't had trouble with the 1920 overheating (They send a set of wire clips to attach the fan, and a splitter to run them both off the same motherboard header if you wish). I get near real time running of a Poser animation with no skipped frames with the 1920 and 32 gigs of DDR-4.

As you would expect it varies depending on room temperature and load but with all 32 threads running on a Poser render the temp is usually in the mid fifties to early sixty degrees C. Temp here today is 23 degrees C outside and the processor has been doing a render for a few hours and the reported temp at the moment is 53.25 degrees C. If it creeps above 63 degrees C the fan unit speeds up and while not annoying you certainly know the unit is working hard. Most of the time the fan runs at 1500 rpm or below and that just gives a slight hum.

I had the unit built for me by Scan in the UK and there you can select a base unit and then you can modify the configuration, within certain parameters, to suit your needs. The big advantage of this is they are not going to allow you to configure something that will not work or go together as they have to build it and provide the warranty. It also means you don't have to look at the specifications of the components to make sure things like if the graphics card will fit into your choice of case. My choice of processor was originally the 1920 and a different motherboard but the 1920 was not in stock at the time so after chatting with someone at Scan we came up with the 1950X and the Gigabyte board. The board was not an option with the configurator but was actually a few pounds cheaper than the one that was not in stock so that subsidised the extra cost of the 1950X. I was happy to change the motherboard as I have been using Gigabyte motherboards for my last four systems, over 20 years in total, and all of them are still running.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.