Ryzen build for number crunching & gaming w/ VR

katastrofa

katastrofa

katastrofa

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I want to build a new PC based on Ryzen 1800X CPU. It will be used for number crunching (long-running multi-threaded simulations using many gigabytes of memory and dumping lots of data to disk), software development, photo editing (RAW file development mostly) and gaming, including VR (I'm thinking about Occulus Rift). The budget is up to £5,000 but would prefer to stay closer to £3,500 (including monitor).

I know I will need:
  1. 64GB RAM (I would prefer more, optimally)
  2. 512GB SSD (I want to dual boot Windows 10 and Linux)
  3. many USB ports for VR headset
What can you recommend?
 
Hello, I would seriously consider holding off and getting a threadripper, supposedly coming end of July. The x370 platform only supports upto 64gb dual channel ram, while the x399 will support 128gb quad channel, as well as having more cores and threads. Rumoured price is about £900 for the 16 core.
 
katastrofa said:
What's the downside of Threadripper? Lower clock speed?
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Don't know yet, though by the looks of it the clock speeds are going to be pretty close to ryzen. The nature of AMDs infinity fabric means they scale really well with more cores. The threadripper is almost literally 2 ryzen 7s stapled together.

So far though we've only got press briefings to go on, and I suspect, similar to ryzen release, we won't have the whole picture till release. But if it does everything they say it will, it could be exactly what you're looking for. :)
 
katastrofa said:
Sweet :) In terms of noise, how much noisier would they be?
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That's entirely down to your cooling solution. A large good quality cooler will be near silent, regardless of what processor you're running.

Though we've yet to see what coolers will be available. Ryzen had a new cooler mounting layout and it was a while before all the manufacturers had updated their product lines with the correct mounting brackets.

Unfortunately there's still a lot we've not been told, and using the Ryzen launch as a guide, AMD will likely be tight lipped about the details till the very last min. Even the actual launch date was kept under wraps until they we're out the door.
 
Any pitfalls with the AM4 platform, e.g. some types of memory or SSD drives performing worse than others? Is it true that it's not worth using faster memory sticks than DDR4 3200?
 
For the number crunching aspect of your brief, Threadripper will **** all over intel. 16 cores and 32 threads will pile through the workloads.
 
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