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AMD THREADRIPPER VS INTEL SKYLAKE X

gavinh87 said:
What a mess.
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What is a mess? They have got all their stuff to reviewers before the date so they have almost two weeks to get their tests done. They have pre-orders ready just like Ryzen. This is hardly a mess in honesty from what we are seeing.

If anything I am rather impressed with how well AMD are doing with release for Threadripper.

Edit: Realised it is a response to something I can't see as on ignore list. My bad.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cp...aunches_a_kaby_lake-x_only_x299_motherboard/1

lol
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What?.................................................What? :S

I don't get it, Intel produce a stop gap CPU that is essentially the top mainstream i7 but with the enthusiast socket so you can buy an enthusiast system and get a better CPU in the future, I get it, the i7 3820 was basically a 2600K for LGA2011 and was a great holding position for 3930K/4930K/etc.

But now companies are making boards specifically for the desktop chip with the odd socket? It's stupid.
 
ubersonic said:
What?.................................................What? :S

I don't get it, Intel produce a stop gap CPU that is essentially the top mainstream i7 but with the enthusiast socket so you can buy an enthusiast system and get a better CPU in the future, I get it, the i7 3820 was basically a 2600K for LGA2011 and was a great holding position for 3930K/4930K/etc.

But now companies are making boards specifically for the desktop chip with the odd socket? It's stupid.
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Someone at Gigabyte obviously thought this was a good idea.

It's not.
 
Silent_Scone said:
Someone at Gigabyte obviously thought this was a good idea.

It's not.
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It's kinda sad, I remember a time when if Gigabyte had the inclination to do something silly it resulted in epicness like the GV-3D1* not a pointless trap motherboard that supports like one CPU (seriously why don't they just solder the CPU onto the board and ship them together lol).


*It was a GFX card with TWO GeForce 6600GT chips on it in SLI (a big thing at the time as multi GPU cards had previously been both expensive and trash).
 
Strip out the IGP, change the socket, charge a bit more, then bring out a brand new motherboard that only supports that CPU.

*dum, dum-dum dum-dum*
 
@8 Pack

For quality of build / components <£150 Motherboard which brand is best? (AM4)

I had my eye on the Tomahawk but watching 'Actually Hardcore Overclocking' (Buildzoid) and he's not impressed with the "fets MSI use on all their boards" so for me that ones out.

I'm thinking Gigabyte? what about ASRock?

 
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