I believe the chips are on sale already.
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I believe the chips are on sale already.
Yes and maybe, if you guess where these blurry bars going.
https://www.wepc.com/news/ryzen-threadripper-release-date/
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3970x
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3960x
So, 3970X ~16,890 CR20 points, and 3960X ~13,650 CR20 points.
14:00 UTC, 9:00 EST so 2pm in "real terms"
If you see all the review sites, those using the 3950X against the 10980XE show how savage is the beating by AMD atm. Even overclocked the 10980XE cannot beat the stock 3950X on productivity workloads!!!!!
It doesn't take much to realize how bad it would be against the 3960X let alone the other chips.
This is why intel slashed the price in half and upped the clocks by 300MHz. From $1979 down to $979.
Yet still losing to a chip that has $200 cheaper MSRP on platform where good boards are at £110 range.
The desktop Ryzen 9 3950X murdered the intel HEDT but intel chips like i5-9600K, i7-9700K and i9-9900K are alive and well, enjoying sales which comfortably they had had before July.
HEDT is niche of a niche and it doesn't matter in the global scheme of things.
Intel still complains they can NOT meet the demand for their chips. Which is what is truely telling and disturbing.
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3950x? It was mistakenly sold early at one retailer at £720 inc VAT (I spent too long "considering") but nowhere lists even a price now. I thought it launched today?!??
3960X/3970X
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New chipset drivers are out
Do they put a changelog out as it's not listed on the driver itself.
Nice. Thanks for the heads up.
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Was option to view log after I installed but I never looked.
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New Bios for elite from 21/11, F10 final. Quicker boots for me from F10a, removes that hang you get before the Aorus logo, couple new options in bios.
Cool. Will update that soon
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Kitguru have reviews on Intel new HEDt and indeed waited until today to do their new Threadripper 3000s
It would appear from many tests that AMDs top of the line is twice as powerful as Intels top of the line in virtually all tests barring specific memory latency.
It completely dominates the HEDT markets, and is the same price as the intel chip was last year (until they cut the price in half)
Also has loads of PCI lanes, and loads on in out.
Updated. Seems you can OC in BIOS by CCX now? I only plan on doing all core 4.4GHz soon though so it does not make a difference to me, but nice to see.
Still wondering what is new in the chipset drivers that just came out, they don’t seem to publish a change log.
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