New gaming build. Thoughts?

Quartz said:
The low-end Threadripper Pros are relatively cheap, with the 16 core costing under £900 if you know where to look, so the 12 core 3945WX should be a lot cheaper (though I can't immediately find UK stock). And Threadripper Pro CPUs - unlike Ryzen (and Intel's Core range) - don't have the problem of severely limited PCIE lanes. Likewise a WRX motherboard isn't that much more than the board he originally listed. And then there's the upgrade path.
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For gaming Threadrippers with their 2019 Zen2 architecture are slower.
X570 gives plenty of I/O for gaming.

And doubt there's upgrade path to any newer architectures than on AM4.
In fact HEDT's job in more heavily multithreaded workloads and multitasking is more bandwidth requiring then desktop and would benefit more from extra bandwidth even at the expense of latency.
 
If your purely gaming get a 5800x. They generally have a better set of 8 cores and overclock better.

And obviously cheaper.

If you use some production software etc thatll use more than 8 cores then fair enough stay with the 5900x.
 
Quartz said:
The low-end Threadripper Pros are relatively cheap, with the 16 core costing under £900 if you know where to look, so the 12 core 3945WX should be a lot cheaper (though I can't immediately find UK stock). And Threadripper Pro CPUs - unlike Ryzen (and Intel's Core range) - don't have the problem of severely limited PCIE lanes. Likewise a WRX motherboard isn't that much more than the board he originally listed. And then there's the upgrade path.
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There is just no reason to go with a HEDT cpu if you are just gaming. The WRX80 socket boards are hugely expensive for starters, and the 3945WX is a 280W TDP cpu so it will run a lot hotter than Ryzen. As for limited pcie lanes I am not sure what you are getting at ? You have x16 for the gpu and you can run 2 x Gen 4 SSD's on X570 without affecting the gpu.

As for upgrade path that is pretty much irrelevant seeing as 16 cores will not be needed for a long time to come for a gaming pc.
 
Quartz said:
The upgrade path on Threadripper Pro is more cores and more RAM.
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Whole CPU will look medieval by the time games would be designed for such core/thread count.
And core parts of game code will always need execution in series and won't ever benefit from multithreading.


Quartz said:
Think about running your game off a 256 GB Ramdisk :) Loading times? What loading times? :D
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Second or two isn't good enough?
https://www.realhardwarereviews.com/silicon-power-us70-1tb-review/11/
 
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