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Threadripper 1950x question to owners

Dvader

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I currently have a a slightly aging pc 2700k o/c 4.6ghz 32gb ram, 1080gtx, m.2 drive etc but still does what i mostly want.
I am interested in the AMD 1950x as a good future proof upgrade at the black friday prices. I would keep my m.2 drive, psu, case and 1080gtx graphic card but new MB, cpu, ddr4 and cooler. I mostly game but usually older titles, however, of late I have been using inventor 2017 as well as converting older dvd movies to HD and my system does slow down a bit when ray tracing etc. Do people think this would be a good upgrade? for a general purpose pc. Cheers for replys.
 
I can't comment on some of your specific uses but can comment on the 1950x as I have had one since release. To be honest the cpu and x399 ecosystem has been great for me, stable, fast and relatively trouble free unless your trying to do certain things on certain hardware combinations under esxi, which lets be honest your average person won't be.

The 1950x has tons of power in the tank and although not the fastest gaming cpu out there it will tear through anything you throw at it more than acceptably. As soon as you get into the realms of multithreaded applications, or simply want to game and encode at the same time you will find that it won't even bat an eyelid, it's an absolute beast in terms of multithreaded performance, in fact it is probably the best value cpu out there given its spec and price, of course that comes with the caveat that you can make use of all that power.

I guess what I am saying is yes a 1950x makes a great general use machine and is a really fast cpu if you can properly make use of its core count.
 
As Vince has stated the TR platform is just superb, I've recently moved from the X99 platform to a 1950x and I'm just so pleased with the system, anything you throw at it - it just devours. Great for gaming to, I'm gaming @4k and BF1, Forza are just fantastic, as long as you have the gpu grunt. My only advice is to make certain you use RAM that is QVL as per the motherboard vendor, otherwise it can be touch and go and cause problems.
 
Cheers for the reply. I was thinking team group dark pro (16gb 3200mhz) x2 as from other threads seems to be popular. Plus the Asrock taichi board seems to get good reviews? I think the 1080 should handle the games for a while.
 
Dvader said:
Cheers for the reply. I was thinking team group dark pro (16gb 3200mhz) x2 as from other threads seems to be popular. Plus the Asrock taichi board seems to get good reviews? I think the 1080 should handle the games for a while.
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I have both the Taichi and the Prime, I am running the Prime atm as I had some issues in ESXi with the Tiachi but the Taichi really is a nice board and I hear they have fixed the issues in the new 1.8 bios so will be putting it back in the machine at the weekend to test. Of all the boards out there the designare and the taichi are the nicest but the Taichi has the advantage of the u.2.
 
One thing I'd add is if your PSU is old, I'd consider getting a new one. Should it fail there's a risk of damage to other components. Worth considering anyway.
Coming from Intel, and after many years, I'm completely happy with the X399 and 1950. I only went for the cheapo mobo (Prime X399-A) but works fine and I'm not going to try to push maximum overclock. So far I haven't bothered overclocking the CPU at all. I was tempted by the Asus £500 mobo I must admit.
Would fully recommend the 8Pack 3200mhz memory as you mentioned. I've read so many issues with memory at least on the non-X399 Ryzen's. I don't have a lot of time for tweaking and fiddling with settings, but with this memory it was easy, just switch to the XMP profile and 3200 stable immediately.
As a general use system it'll last a long time. Now that there's more CPU's out there with > 4 cores, and even at the budget end too, I expect new software to start utilising these cores.
I have a feeling I'll keep this system or many years as I did my Z77 based one, although I might be tempted to upgrade the processor again towards the end of the lifespan of the X399 socket, given that the expectation is that AMD will support this socket for a while. I have a feeling there will be no need to though.
I went with aircooling, using the Phanteks tower cooler specific to TR (TR-SP3 something like that), and am happy with that too.
 
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Some excellent advice from owners in here and as an owner myself, i can't top it.

I've just setup Bootable Nvme Raid 0 and it was a painless easy process on an Asus Zenith board.
 
DarrenM343 said:
One thing I'd add is if your PSU is old, I'd consider getting a new one. Should it fail there's a risk of damage to other components. Worth considering anyway.
Coming from Intel, and after many years, I'm completely happy with the X399 and 1950. I only went for the cheapo mobo (Prime X399-A) but works fine and I'm not going to try to push maximum overclock. So far I haven't bothered overclocking the CPU at all. I was tempted by the Asus £500 mobo I must admit.
Would fully recommend the 8Pack 3200mhz memory as you mentioned. I've read so many issues with memory at least on the non-X399 Ryzen's. I don't have a lot of time for tweaking and fiddling with settings, but with this memory it was easy, just switch to the XMP profile and 3200 stable immediately.
As a general use system it'll last a long time. Now that there's more CPU's out there with > 4 cores, and even at the budget end too, I expect new software to start utilising these cores.
I have a feeling I'll keep this system or many years as I did my Z77 based one, although I might be tempted to upgrade the processor again towards the end of the lifespan of the X399 socket, given that the expectation is that AMD will support this socket for a while. I have a feeling there will be no need to though.
I went with aircooling, using the Phanteks tower cooler specific to TR (TR-SP3 something like that), and am happy with that too.
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Yes i have a corsair 750w psu I take it a larger power supply may be in order? 850w or higher? and recommendations?
 
I had no trouble running threadripper on a 5 year old corsair TX650. I upgraded to a 750W seasonic prime when I swapped my gtx 780 for a vega 56.
 
When you come to building your new rig, could you feedback on the View 71 case please? I've been looking at this and would appreciate your comments with this case. Thx.
 
ketma said:
When you come to building your new rig, could you feedback on the View 71 case please? I've been looking at this and would appreciate your comments with this case. Thx.
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Will do, my final parts will arrive thursday or friday, will commence building on the friday..... Got some time of from work :)
 
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