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*** AMD ThreadRipper ***

Spyhop said:
If I bought a ThreadRipper for home use, some of the cores might as well be made of sawdust, as they would be idle for the entire service lifetime of the processor :)
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Well no, it depends on what you are doing with it, some of us have hobbies that involve making games as well as playing them, video content and so on.

Those of us can't or wont pay Intel over £100 per-core, those of us who are 'enthusiasts' Threadripper is perfect and perfectly priced.
 
This is great if true. I just don't know how they're going to fit 6 other TR CPUs between £799 and the £420 of the 1800X. They'll all be close in pricing. I'm not complaining though.
 
humbug said:
Well no, it depends on what you are doing with it, some of us have hobbies that involve making games as well as playing them, video content and so on.

Those of us can't or wont pay Intel over £100 per-core, those of us who are 'enthusiasts' Threadripper is perfect and perfectly priced.
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Hopefully this spurs Adobe to make the creative cloud suite more multi-threaded.

It's actually quite hard to find up to date benchmarks of it, but I remember reading on a couple of years ago which found Premiere Pro only scaled up to 10c/20t, and beyond that made no difference.

Now obviously that's fair enough at the time, since something like 0.001% of their users would have more cores than that. But now that 12+ cores are going to be semi-affordable, I hope all the high-end software goes on a bit of a core-efficiency race. Even just moving to 20c/40t for now would be very acceptable.
 
The right CPU i need to build my super Hackintosh computer.
A guy named Bronya have already make it with Ryzen so there is no reason he will not do it for threadripper too.

Excited!
 
Lokken86 said:
Personally they will too extensive for my liking and will probably be low core speed anyway.
32 threads would make the 7700k quad core look old school though hehe.
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want an upgrade from my 5930K which is feeling slow, in some situations.

seems pointless going to 8 cores, 10 maybe. i bought this X99 in 2014. will be used a Linux Server once i swap over. i do a fair bit of programming & VM's so be nice to have core count

this my system average cpu usage
playing a game,
bit of coding etc
Average CPU usage
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The core speed looks like it will be about the same as R7's, maybe a few 100Mhz lower for the 16 core. Will be interesting to find out which coolers end up working for such a big chip.
 
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smogsy said:
want an upgrade from my 5930K which is feeling slow, in some situations.

seems pointless going to 8 cores, 10 maybe. i bought this X99 in 2014. will be used a Linux Server once i swap over. i do a fair bit of programming & VM's so be nice to have core count

this my system average cpu usage
playing a game,
bit of coding etc
Average CPU usage
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I know how you feel. Doing some video and photo work can even slow down my 5820K. I use to be able to run a game and have it encode/render no issue, but more and more games are using more cores.

Same for gaming and streaming. I've noticed in some games I need to force "Multi Device Processing" + setting specific CPU cores to be able to record at 60fps well at 1440p and 4K.

The poor thing is running out of steam as things progress and move on. So I want/need more cores.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
I know how you feel. Doing some video and photo work can even slow down my 5820K. I use to be able to run a game and have it encode/render no issue, but more and more games are using more cores.

Same for gaming and streaming. I've noticed in some games I need to force "Multi Device Processing" + setting specific CPU cores to be able to record at 60fps well at 1440p and 4K.

The poor thing is running out of steam as things progress and move on. So I want/need more cores.
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indeed,

not sure of the CPU/MB or case for that matter yet but here the base of my new system thus far
My basket at Overclockers UK:

all storage will be NVME
 
smogsy said:
indeed,

not sure of the CPU/MB or case for that matter yet but here the base of my new system thus far
My basket at Overclockers UK:

all storage will be NVME
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Looking nice!

I'll essentially keep everything, but of course new RAM, CPU, and Motherboard. 10 Core will likely be my new minimum, but if the leaks of Threadripper 12 and 14 core with a 4.1Ghz boost is true, I might get one of those.

Most likely get the same RAM as yourself, as I've yet to run out of 32GB on my system, closest I've gotten is 26GB in project work.

I'll certainly need to finally upgrade to NVMe. Was thinking 500GB for OS, and programs, and then 1TB one as well for scratch disk and project files.
My little external RAID array is showing it's age, so that'll likely turn into just a backup for project and scratch disk files.

Then I'll be waiting to see what AMD Vega does for me, or Volta. :D
Going to be keeping an eye on X299 as well though; but AMD might win for Value to cores after all; and cheaper motherboards.
 
smogsy said:
indeed,

not sure of the CPU/MB or case for that matter yet but here the base of my new system thus far
My basket at Overclockers UK:

all storage will be NVME
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I would get an EVGA 750 G3 PSU, £185 for a 650W is a bit too much.
 
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