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OcUK Ryzen 9 3950X review thread
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I have to have the 3950x. I'm already in massive overkill territory with my Asrock Aqua motherboard, so putting anything other than a 3950x in it just seems like a waste.
How is the Aqua board? Does it justify the price tag?
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Damn.. Its pricey, but when you think that its essentially a mini threadripper that performs better in every way compared to last gen's 16c threadripper, its not too bad a price.
Certainly is for the proper enthusiasts though
I have to have the 3950x. I'm already in massive overkill territory with my Asrock Aqua motherboard, so putting anything other than a 3950x in it just seems like a waste.
Pics and review of board when it's done please.
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now 799.99?
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Its not even out yet already price rise jeez!
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So think it's a 3900x maybe for me but not from Ocuk as lots cheaper else where but will wait till Black Friday se if there's any good deals
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AMD messed up badly with the stock on the top cpus, which is a big shame because they would have sold a lot more if they did have stock.
The 3900x up to now was nowhere to be found, and only now the prices on that started to go down a bit still way higher than RRP.
The 3950x hasn't even started pre orders and already has seen a price bigger than RRP, I am starting to have doubts if i ever will be able to build my new pc. A bit more waiting and Zen 3 will be announced...
The 3900x up to now was nowhere to be found, and only now the prices on that started to go down a bit still way higher than RRP.
The 3950x hasn't even started pre orders and already has seen a price bigger than RRP, I am starting to have doubts if i ever will be able to build my new pc. A bit more waiting and Zen 3 will be announced...
I did warn you guys. I said this is a binned CPU and stock will be low. So retailers will mark up the prices.
To be honest £50 is not bad, I was expecting an increase of £100
Unfortunately Apple is TSMC's priority customer and those A13 chips have eaten up all the spare 7nm supply TSMC had. AMD is left with the scraps and then they have to try and take binned samples from the scraps to make high end chips.
Now imagine how little stock there will be of threadripper 3000
This is going to be AMD's biggest issue. They have a better product than Intel, but they can't actually get enough of it into the hands of the customer - so the customer will just go to Intel who can supply them.
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I did warn you guys. I said this is a binned CPU and stock will be low. So retailers will mark up the prices.
To be honest £50 is not bad, I was expecting an increase of £100
Unfortunately Apple is TSMC's priority customer and those A13 chips have eaten up all the spare 7nm supply TSMC had. AMD is left with the scraps and then they have to try and take binned samples from the scraps to make high end chips.
Now imagine how little stock there will be of threadripper 3000
This is going to be AMD's biggest issue. They have a better product than Intel, but they can't actually get enough of it into the hands of the customer - so the customer will just go to Intel who can supply them.
I have posted on UK prices for the 3900x before and i'll say the same thing again in relation to the 3950x, there is no need for any of us to be gouged by greedy UK retailers.......................................just buy it from any of the German retailers that more than likely will sell at RRP.
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This chip is something that is so far ahead of its time there's no graphics cards that provide enough power to challenge it.
You are right and wrong. Wrong because This cpu will easily bottleneck a 2080ti at 1080p in current games. Right, but your theory only holds true if developer are effectively using all 32 threads and using DX12 api to remove cpu bottleneck
Once I successfully order a 3950x I'll start a project log. I've barely touched it thus far as I don't see the point until I get the CPU.
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What's up with the price for 3950x ,shouldn't it be more like £700 than £799? I like buying my parts from OCUK but I think I'll look elsewhere this time 
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How would it bottleneck that GPU?
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If you're under the impression that £50 will be the only price bump from OcUK for the 3950X then I suspect you're in for a bit of a surprise.
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Because at low resolution the GPU will be pushing high frames and the CPU will not be able to "keep up" and end up being the bottleneck. This is why we use low resolutions for CPU game benchmarks.
But it really does depend on the game being benchmarked tbh.