If I had an extra 10k laying around, I would buy an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X pretty much exclusively for gaming, mainly games like Rimworld or Kenshi. Why else would you need 64 cores and 128 threads? To open Excel?
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If I had an extra 10k laying around, I would buy a Talos II workstation.
Are you sure about that?
Monero mining, whether it's stupid depends on your viewpoint.
Based, hats off to a moongay who has one.
Wish I could future proof a pc it is unfortunate my comp will need a replacement in 1-2 years. I don’t understand why gpus become obsolete so fast. No new tech is coming out afaik like wtf are they doing each iteration? Are they just hate keeping the good tech to milk is longer?
1060s are still good.
been using one since 2017, I don't even know how well the newer GPUs perform because this one works perfectly
>Why else would you need 64 cores and 128 threads?
3D work?
And video encoding.
I'd also add servers too.
No, a 16-32 core system is gonna see you good for the next 5-8 years probably longer. But running that thing is gonna cost major $$$
Why would anyone need anything more than a Ryzen 7/9 just for gaming? Threadripper sounds like overkill.
Most games would just be worse. You could VM them out with a shit ton of GPUs or something though. That would be neat.
Accidentally opening the wrong engineering calculations doc at work is a great way to waste 30 minutes.
Do you live in Ethiopia or something? Do you use Windows 95 and a Core 2 Duo? I slack off for 95% of my shift, but if I actually have to do something, our 10-year-old desktops work just fine albeit with some lag for the heavier stuff.
If you don't have at least 40-50GB of memory then they don't even open. But yeah, our shit is pretty clogged up since it is mostly network restrictions since everything is hosted serverside at work and they refuse to get better gear. I shit you not half of the switches are just ethernet.
I pity you. I shall never complain about our shitty hardware now. You know what? I got work tomorrow and the first thing that I am going to do is go on Command Prompt and see how much memory each desktop can support and max out all of the desktops on my budget.
Yeah it's pretty bad, if shit goes well I'll be out in the next week or two. Finally got off my ass.
>Spend 10k on a high core count CPU to play a single threaded game
Never change IQfy
>Rimthreaded
I think Kenshi is multithreaded so using a high-end threadripper should in theory be way better than using a high-end i9, despite the i9 being better per core and per thread.
5800X3D is all I need until the next one comes
I'd like to say I'd do something cool with a Threadripper, but I know I'd just do the same thing I currently do: browse IQfy and occasionally watch a movie
Can AV1 encoders make use of many threads?
> To open Excel?
I see you have never seen an Enterprise Grade Excel Sheet.
Do games even utilize that many cores?
Bannerlord supposedly can use as many as you throw at it
You can run crysis 1 on a threadripper. With no graphics card, CPU rendered
>update gentoo
>firefox and gcc out of date
>it's done in 10 minutes
>muh CPU
Most games are bottlenecked by GPU, not CPU you tards.
>buy literally the worst current high-end option for gaming
I love enthusiasts because they're not tech literate, but they think they are.
Different strokes for different folks. Since most games a single-threaded, an i9 would provide a better experience than a threadripper. For the few games that do support multithreading and are extremely demanding, a threadripper would easily be way better.
>Different strokes for different folks.
No, objectively the reason threadripper barely existed was because that core count was pointless, while the threads themselves were comparatively slow as frick next to the high-end Ryzen. Unless your workflow was something specifically requiring a ton of x86 cores (in which case you should either buy a multi-cpu system, or figure out how to make a GPU do it instead) Threadripper made no sense. It made so little sense even AMD didn't bother with it last gen.
Yes, the threadripper is niche tech. You even need a special mobo for it. I think that the really high-end threadrippers will still provide a decent gaming experience provided that there isn't a bottleneck with the GPU. Obviously, an i9 beats a threadripper in games, but other applications that require so many cores and threads do exist.
>other applications that require so many cores and threads do exist
I mean, if you want to spawn a bunch of instances of something that's hard-compute, maybe, but at that point just go full Epyc. TR was the worst of both worlds.
>For the few games that do support multithreading and are extremely demanding, a threadripper would easily be way better.
No games exhibit significant gains for going over 8 cores - most don't even get much out of going above 6. There's zero reason to trade away AL/Zen3 IPC and clocks for a bunch of cores that'll sit idle in games
64 cores is for compiling / rendering / computational work where you know that you need that ahead of time. It won't make your video games run faster because the video game doesn't have 64 cores worth of work it needs to perform CPU side.
You should take $6k and put it into an investment account like an IRA instead of blowing it on consumer goods that don't benefit you
5800X3D is the CPU to get if you only care about 3D, 5950X otherwise. Or wait until AM5
TR is really a no-good CPU when EPYC exists. Dual-socket mobos, mmmhmmmm
It's nice, but my wife's 16 core threadripper eats my dual-socket EPYC for lunch in games.
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I'd make so many WEBMs of everything
just get a 5950x
>mainly games like Rimworld
It's been years since I last played Rimworld, but why the frick would you need a threadripper to run it? I played it on an old core2duo and it ran great.
I'd buy a threadripper just to smash distributed computing high scores
>implying it's just about the cores
8x16 PCIe lanes.
>Stupid reasons why you would want a threadripper
going to wait in the future for cheap 1st/2nd gen threadrippers. and cheap chink motherboard. i just want to look at the thread count lol
>I would buy an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X pretty much exclusively for gaming
That is a legitimately stupid reason to want a threadripper. You accomplished your goal. Anything over a 5900X is overkill for current gen gaming and will probably carry you over for a few years into the next. Only people that want threadrippers are servers and folks that do 3D/video work and you'd have to do it commercially to justify the cost. And I'll have Blacks telling me even a 5900X is overkill. So. Yeah.
For hpc. That's 4 nodes on a supercomputer available whenever without needing MPI
if you are a business just lease a thinkstation p620. gorgeous.