Threadripper upgrade foolish?

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I've managed to pick up an MSI MEG X399 Creation for £300 and am wondering whether to pull the trigger on a Threadripper build or return the board.

Given that Threadripper 3 will bring PCI-E 4 in all likelihood and move to X499 boards I wonder if waiting is better. Especially as the better priced TR CPUs like the 1920 and 1950 are likely to be out performed by the Zen 2 chips on AM4.

 

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I'll just return the board, it's cheap but even a high end AM4 board is going to be sub £300.

Any system I put together be it a 1920X (total £600) or a 1950X (£800) or 2950X (£1100) is likely to be outperformed by Zen 2 for less.

I'm not running VMs, just gaming/photo and video editing so single threaded performance still is important.

Thanks all.

 

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Stick a thread up in the MM I could always be tempted.

 

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Are you water cooled?

Wasn't planning to. It's too much hassle. Was going to go for one of these:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-cpu-cooler-135mm-hs-01e-bq.html?template=amp

 

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What do you have currently?

Waiting via probably the clever thing to do. Must be only 4-5 months away now.

5820K which gets the job done tbh. The upgrade itch was kicking in, plus having my hands on the MEG Creation for cheap was making me look for something new.

If I'm honest my main use is Lightroom and gaming which first gen Threadripper isn't going to much faster at than a 5820K.

I'll sit tight for Zen 2 on AM4 or X499/Threadripper 2.