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THanks for the input 
I don't know so much about Premiere, I rarely use it but from my experience so far its been fine with 1950x.
but After Effects I use a whole lot. I would say if you spend more than 50% of your day in AE and Photoshop, Threadripper isn't just a bad choice, its also a waste of money. You will have lower performance, more unstability and problems for a higher cost of money. So, overall not recommended IMO. But if you do 3d rendering and AE, which I do, Threadripper seem like the best in-between option if you are willing to loose some performance in AE to get fast rendering. But to me rendering is something I do less than AE and also there are cloud rendering services if I really need to render a lot, so I regret my investment....much thanks to Adobe of course.
This weekend I have done a GREAT deal of investigating, and trying different overclocking settings. It seems Threadripper is more buggy than I anticipated too. I started at 3.9ghz this friday, had to go down to 3.8 before the temp was stable at 75C on high load. But after approx 15 min my machine froze, so I went further down. Eventually I ended up without any overclocking. Sticking with the base clock. But after 20 min or so even though the machine was never above 65C it still froze when using 100% CPU all the time. I read somewhere that AMD has experienced this, so now I don't know whats causing the problems or how to fix it. So I figured it must be the ram, I have 128 GB of 2400MHZ ram, which is said by corsair to be supported by the threadripper, I have done memory diagnostics without any errors. But from reading a lot about it, it seems even though Threadripper supports 1TB of ram, they don't recommend above 4 sticks with 32gb, what's that about?!?. ...So, again another problem with the the whole x399 platform and I don't know why. I don't know if the Threadripper tech is too new or un-tested, but I'm tired of all these problems. I do know my way around computers, but I don't want to spend hours every day trying to get a stable system up. My Intel CPU/x99 Asus MOBO had preset settings of overclocking in the BIOS which all worked the first time I tried with an overclock from 3.6 to 4 ghz (4,4 ghz boost) - and I have NEVER had a single bluescreen (I lost counts how many bluescreens the 1950x has given me).
The x399 MSI gaming carbon MOBO has 7 presets and the two upper ones aren't even stable with watercooling from what I read - so just untested presets of pointless overkill. I will put my threadripper machine back to sleep for now, hoping another MOBO firmware update will come and Adobe make more use of cores in the future, in the meantime Ill stick with my other PC. I will hunt for suggestions and solution on the net meanwhile, if nothing comes up Ill ditch the 1950x entirely and buy a new MOBO and an Intel 10-12 core of the next prosumer CPUs that will be released, hoping they have the ability for high clockspeed overclocking - which seems to be the next decent all round core count. I'll never buy AMD again. Its too bad, I paid about 10.000 USD for this powerful machine and its unstable and badly supported by Adobe
You still haven't answered my first question. No1 What are the timings of your ram. are they 14/14/14/14/32 or like mine 16/18/18/18/35
The TR likes fast ram like (14)
I think that the Innermax 360 or the 280 should work fine for the TR and you should see big improvements in temperatures over what you have currently. I also have a small Noctua fan 90mm fitted to my Dim.2 slot. This is one the Asus Zenit Extreme. It helps cool the M.2's.
I also have one Noctua 140mm industrial fan fitted close to the bottom of the case this is directed towards the grapex card and my C drive which is an M.2 drive. I have one Be quiet 140mm at the top back of the case, this fan normally takes air out but I have it taking fresh air in and cooling my VRM's & RAM. Take a look at the diagram I posted earlier in this thread. My rads are all set up to take air out of the system.
Mike.
PS I included the diagram here to make things a little clearer. I also have made made some changes since I posted this diagram. The 90mm fan for the M.2 my c drive is now replaced with a 140mm fan and the 90mm fan is now positioned to the Dim .2 slot near the top of the board.
Sorry, My ram is on XMP overclock CL14,16,16,31 2400Mhz. Its the only ram of 128 gb corsair says they have that are compatible. But all the tech specs they show is for x99...So maybe thats why it crashes. I bought the Threadripper and the setup very early so all the ram vendors probably scrambled to find what ram they had to offer that were supported. WHen I reduced the amount to 64gb, everything went fine.
My other ram sticks which I own are HyperX Savage, Kingston. DDR4 quad memory 128gb 2666Mhz CL14,14,14,14 So actually, even though I bought them 1.5 years ago seem like a better set of ram kit. Maybe they will be more stable (?)
My current fan setup is push/pull, which from all charts I've seen apparently the most proven. Though most ways work fine except pulling all wind into the chassis I guess 
. I'll check what the Innermax recommends, in/out. then Ill have the various Noctuas doing the opposite.
Yeah problem is that even though my ram is well suited it crashes under heavy load 
But I will try the other brand, see if its any better. Maybe it is. If not then THreadripper simply doesn't like 128gb. The reason for the pull/push as I though is that you need new fresh air in in order to replace the old warm air, If all fans pushes air out then there wont be enough air for the fans to circulate. Its the same as in well sealed houses, you need some fresh air in for for the circulation, which is the important part...not just remove hot air....it's why the push/pull makes sense to me. But I see you use push/pull from font/rear, so I guess your system works nicely.
OK. I was in touch with G.Skills support to try to see if there was some way to allow mu ram to run at its rated speed of 2300MHz. Talk about noncommittal !!. After a lot of wrangling and trying to get the preferred settings for my memory The only thing I was told was to try increasing the SiC Voltage and the DRAM Voltage. I couldn't get and definite sr straight answers from them. They said that they don't guarantee that you will get the rated speed with a full house of memory. (Eight sticks) !
Mike 
Yea I run a stress test but it was only for about 15 minutes or so I will give it a longer run tomorrow. The Stress test I am using is CPUID GPU-Z
Update on stress test. I am only back from shopping as their is a big storm forecast for tomorrow. I started a stress test before I lest. You can see screen grab links below for the full information.
PS. The Memory is set in the BIAS to 2933MHz. In the CPU-Z it shows up as 1465.8 Multiply by 2 = 2931.6MHz.
Mike
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