I've heard the rumors that threadripper will need an AIO liquid cooler. I was checking out newegg, and was just curious if any of you kind folks were aware of a case (The Cosmos could work, but it's pricey, and huge), that would accomodate not only whatever size that cooler radiator may be (I'm guessing anywhere from 80mm to 320mm). I'd love to be able to put in a ton of 120mm Noctua case fans for intake/exhaust (more exhaust than intake, to create negative pressure). With the threadripper build, it would be the CPU, whatever cooler it comes with, 128GB DDR4 RAM (I'm not going to overclock anything, and several SATA 3 HDDs, since I'm more worried about the longevity of something like an NVMe Samsung 960 EVO, and a lower end GPU that can drive a widescreen monitor (or two bezeless ones). Of the cases I've seen, they seem to be limited to like 3 or 4 case fans, and I have zero desire for that dumb Deepcool case with the built-in 320mm resevoir.
Any ideas? When I was first looking at Ryzen cases, there was a Corsair that had quite a few case fan mounts (and that side duct) that would handle a large radiator, multiple 120mm case fans, and an 80mm on the back. I can't seem to find anything like that in the full or super tower range, other than the Cosmos.
Something else that I'm curious about, has been that I've seen folks squawk about Intel using cheap TIM paste, instead of solder. Some folks were mentioning liquid metal paste. Wouldn't that be electrically conductive? I did a quick NewEgg search, and a good many of them talked about using Cermaique (I know what ceramic is, but I've never heard *that* term), carbon, liquid aluminum, and even "nano diamonds". I haven't used thermal paste since I bought some arctic silver waaaay back when I built my current Sandy Bridge rig, so I'm very out of the loop. What should I be looking for, since in addition to the threadripper workstation, it's long past time I built a new gaming rig. Any suggestions on what to get, or what to avoid?