3rd gen Threadripper chips

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im hoping that hey come out soon so I can cop a 2920X or 2950X for cheap. The chips are reasonably priced I guess but the motherboards are so expensive
 
I wouldn't expect next gen tr until fall. Likely October - in the meantime the 1st gen tr are a good deal - 1950x is same price as a 2920 and you get 4 more cores at only ~250mhz lower speed.
 
Does the 1950X have the XFR and PBO overclocking? I like the idea of not having to mess with it but put a fat cooler on it and let it run with the added thermal headroom
 
bobzdar said:
I wouldn't expect next gen tr until fall. Likely October - in the meantime the 1st gen tr are a good deal - 1950x is same price as a 2920 and you get 4 more cores at only ~250mhz lower speed.
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The Threadripper 1950X at $600 is probably the best deal ever for a 16 core CPU. There is no reason to get the 2950X unless you want automated overclocking. Still, I would save $300 and invest it in a good motherboard. The ASUS Zenith Extreme is still an excellent motherboard, and ASUS actively supports it with new firmware updates. I don't see why anyone would get something like a 9900K over this unless you play games all the time and don't multitask.
 
Take care. There is a whole post about a guy who says his computer was DOA and tried several X399 boards with 2950 and later 2970 Threadripper. Finally sent everything back and went Intel. I've seen all suppositions about his problem except the BIOS, which is the more obvious.You may need to update the BIOS to make the Threadripper 2000 compatible with the X399 board. The chipset hasn't changed and many boards may be sold with quite an older BIOS.
 
Jandor said:
Take care. There is a whole post about a guy who says his computer was DOA and tried several X399 boards with 2950 and later 2970 Threadripper. Finally sent everything back and went Intel. I've seen all suppositions about his problem except the BIOS, which is the more obvious.You may need to update the BIOS to make the Threadripper 2000 compatible with the X399 board. The chipset hasn't changed and many boards may be sold with quite an older BIOS.
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It is most likely the lack of an updated BIOS with the correct AGESA version that supports Threadripper 2. That can happen on X299 as well if you get a motherboard that was manufactured prior to ~October 2018 and you try to install a 9th Gen Skylake--X CPU (though it's just a 7th Gen with soldered IHS and Intel is now using the HCC die for all Skylake-X 9th Gen models).

gigatexal said:
Where? I’ll read it
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Don't bother, it's not even entertaining. But if you must, here: https://hardforum.com/threads/friend-building-new-ryzen-2950x-system-doa-no-matter-what.1977602/
 
STEM said:
It is most likely the lack of an updated BIOS with the correct AGESA version that supports Threadripper 2. That can happen on X299 as well if you get a motherboard that was manufactured prior to ~October 2018 and you try to install a 9th Gen Skylake--X CPU (though it's just a 7th Gen with soldered IHS and Intel is now using the HCC die for all Skylake-X 9th Gen models).



Don't bother, it's not even entertaining. But if you must, here: https://hardforum.com/threads/friend-building-new-ryzen-2950x-system-doa-no-matter-what.1977602/
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There's more to that story than the OP is admitting. Use a huge grain of salt when reading.
 
tangoseal said:
There's more to that story than the OP is admitting. Use a huge grain of salt when reading.
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I've built a bunch of Threadripper systems, and they all work fine to this day. I used Gigabyte and ASUS motherboards. If you could please point out what I'm missing, I would be very grateful because time is limited for me today, and if you already caught it then there is no point in me looking for it. Thank you.
 
STEM said:
I've built a bunch of Threadripper systems, and they all work fine to this day. I used Gigabyte and ASUS motherboards. If you could please point out what I'm missing, I would be very grateful because time is limited for me today, and if you already caught it then there is no point in me looking for it. Thank you.
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I'm not gonna go and reread the whole thread but OP reported using like 3 different mother boards and 3 different cpus. Nothing worked. The OP wouldn't admit or deny that he/she/they or whomever is the person having problems if it was user error installing. I've built literally hundreds of PCs. In high school in the 90s I was an employee that mass built systems. And to this day I've built countless others. I've built at least 4 threadrippers and 3 x299s. Not a single issue. So I'm not sure what the true story underlying the OPs thread really was but it stinks of builder error somewhere in the process. No one tries 3 chips and motherboards without success even admitting they changed power supplies etc without some installation error.

So there is some salt in the thread but not sure where.

I am adamantly opposed to some claim of bios updates when concerning that thread.
 
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Jandor said:
Take care. There is a whole post about a guy who says his computer was DOA and tried several X399 boards with 2950 and later 2970 Threadripper. Finally sent everything back and went Intel. I've seen all suppositions about his problem except the BIOS, which is the more obvious.You may need to update the BIOS to make the Threadripper 2000 compatible with the X399 board. The chipset hasn't changed and many boards may be sold with quite an older BIOS.
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except that most x399 come with the option to update the bios without a cpu even installed so that wasn't even the reason.. the problem lies in the fact that it was required to installed a bridge bios before the actual TR2 bios.. most people that screwed boards up are due to failing to install the bridge bios first.

that persons issues weren't due to bios and most likely were due to user error.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
except that most x399 come with the option to update the bios without a cpu even installed so that wasn't even the reason.. the problem lies in the fact that it was required to installed a bridge bios before the actual TR2 bios.. most people that screwed boards up are due to failing to install the bridge bios first.

that persons issues weren't due to bios and most likely were due to user error.
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How can you tell which one is the bridge BIOS? I notice on the Zenith Extreme that BIOS Flashback would work only with certain versions of the BIOS.
 
STEM said:
How can you tell which one is the bridge BIOS? I notice on the Zenith Extreme that BIOS Flashback would work only with certain versions of the BIOS.
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usually when you go to the bios download page it'll say "must be installed after so and so bios" or it'll just say bridge bios but looks like asus doesn't do that. i'd probably say install the bios where 2nd gen TR support is added then update to the latest bios. i know for sure asrock uses bridge bios. if you go look at the x399 taichi bios page you'll see what it looks like.
 
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usually when you go to the bios download page it'll say "must be installed after so and so bios" or it'll just say bridge bios but looks like asus doesn't do that. i'd probably say install the bios where 2nd gen TR support is added then update to the latest bios. i know for sure asrock uses bridge bios. if you go look at the x399 taichi bios page you'll see what it looks like.
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Thank you for the info.
 
On that thread, he did update(still locked though) and say he had to change the ram out due to compatibility issues with the i9. Sounds to me the RAM was the problem all the time.
 
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