So who is pre-purchasing the X399 motherboards and Threadripper CPU's tomorrow?

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I know I am, CC in hand just waiting on when I can hit the purchase button. Going to get an Asus board and the 1950X.
 
Well the cpu isn't launching until Aug 10th I understand. But the boards are going on preorder tomorrow. Unless you have link to something I didn't see.

I'm bent between the Gigabyte Gaming or the Asus Zenith. Have to see the actual release propaganda to make my decision. But I'm am 1000% getting a 1950x if the reviews pan out good. I doesnt have to beat Intel Skylake X single thread but it must beat multithread for me to get it.

I'm also pickin up an Asus 1080ti Poseidon tomorrow also. More tha likely ill get the Zenith simply because it will match all my stuff and the Aura Sync is important to me too.
 
I'd kind of like to see benchmarks, maybe wait a couple months until all the early-release bugs shake out.

It's hard to justify when you know nothing about the performance, power, temps and reliability of the platform and the CPU. It could be a winner and wipe the floor with Intel. It could also suck down 400W, only work with one specific brand and model of RAM, and crash every 3 hours.
 
I'll also add the Asus is eATX and I have a big ass TH10 Caselabs already.

But the Gigabyte and MSI are atx normal sized.
for the rest of us who live vicariously through you [H]'ers with deep pockets, you plan on doing a build log with lots of pics no? I mean Threadripper and CaseLabs is droolworthy.
 
for the rest of us who live vicariously through you [H]'ers with deep pockets, you plan on doing a build log with lots of pics no? I mean Threadripper and CaseLabs is droolworthy.

Shoot man I bought the Caselabs when the dude was just starting company... I think the thing is like 7 years old now.

TH10 was one of the first cases he made.

I sold $700.00 worth of stuff to get me a 1080ti incl. my 980ti.

I m however, pending good reviews, gonna shell out an easy $1800 On just 1950x some ram and a board sigh.... But I do lots of video work and run many VMs so I can justify the cost as far as my usage.

The thread ripper may run 24/7 as a server as well as Windows gaming and workstation machine.

I will be selling my 1700x and mobo to help pay for all this so not necessarily deep pockets.
 
I'd kind of like to see benchmarks, maybe wait a couple months until all the early-release bugs shake out.

It's hard to justify when you know nothing about the performance, power, temps and reliability of the platform and the CPU. It could be a winner and wipe the floor with Intel. It could also suck down 400W, only work with one specific brand and model of RAM, and crash every 3 hours.
Wattage wise, if going by the numbers we got on EPYC, it is likely to be in the 200-240W max at stock. Which I think falls in line with the 8 cores X2.
 
Wattage wise, if going by the numbers we got on EPYC, it is likely to be in the 200-240W max at stock. Which I think falls in line with the 8 cores X2.

I know the "estimates"...I want to see hard numbers with production hardware. New chip and new platform, so I don't trust the estimates.
 
I'd kind of like to see benchmarks, maybe wait a couple months until all the early-release bugs shake out.

It's hard to justify when you know nothing about the performance, power, temps and reliability of the platform and the CPU. It could be a winner and wipe the floor with Intel. It could also suck down 400W, only work with one specific brand and model of RAM, and crash every 3 hours.

That would be smart. You can also find out which boards to stay away from. Even with Intel there are a lot of bad boards... early adopters always get screwed.
 
Well according to WCCFTECH all vendors are going to have preorders in the next 24 hours and that article was hours ago? I guess we wait now. $599.99 boards? I do not think they are going to sell like cancer cures right away. But I will reserve an Asus Zenith or Gigabyte if I see one on NewEgg for reservation.
 
I'd kind of like to see benchmarks, maybe wait a couple months until all the early-release bugs shake out.

It's hard to justify when you know nothing about the performance, power, temps and reliability of the platform and the CPU. It could be a winner and wipe the floor with Intel. It could also suck down 400W, only work with one specific brand and model of RAM, and crash every 3 hours.

given it doesn't have AVX-512 and ryzen was pretty close to it's rated TDP (around 110-120w on the 1800x with a 95w TDP), i'd expect TR to be around 210w stock.. even overclocked i can't see it pulling 400w. now if it had AVX-512 i wouldn't even want to try and figure out how much power it would use based on what intel is showing with their processors.
 
I know 3 people that wont......:D

I need a rig upgrade but i'm going to wait a few months and let the early adopters find any issues, I also need to save lots of pennies as aside from graphics its a total upgrade. Its been a while since I last had an AMD proc in my main rig, that one being an X6 1090T, before that an FX62, xp2100+ and a 700mhz athlon
 
I do plan to purchase a 16C TR however the linux compilation crash is still not fixed (daily activity on both threads on the AMD forums). Even though I will likely use the TR for a windows workstation (with ECC) I am probably going to wait a few months on this one. Perhaps then DDR4 ECC will come down a little in price..
 
given it doesn't have AVX-512 and ryzen was pretty close to it's rated TDP (around 110-120w on the 1800x with a 95w TDP), i'd expect TR to be around 210w stock.. even overclocked i can't see it pulling 400w. now if it had AVX-512 i wouldn't even want to try and figure out how much power it would use based on what intel is showing with their processors.

I'm not dropping >$1k on "expected power" or "expected performance". We can make estimates all day long on past numbers and comparisons to existing products, but why gamble? What exactly would I gain by pre-ordering this product? A month of extra "epeen" because I have a TR before everyone else? Or a month of extra headaches waiting for BIOS updates to fix bugs?
 
I'm not dropping >$1k on "expected power" or "expected performance". We can make estimates all day long on past numbers and comparisons to existing products, but why gamble? What exactly would I gain by pre-ordering this product? A month of extra "epeen" because I have a TR before everyone else? Or a month of extra headaches waiting for BIOS updates to fix bugs?

Omg Intel shill!!!
 
Is there any info on ram support yet? I know ECC was promised but how about registered? Unbuffered is not as common, usually costs more and limited in size. There will be a shitload of reg dd4 showing up on ebay over the next couple years as the habitual upgrader providers retire their C612 servers. (see reg ddr3 as previous example) Even though their skylake and later servers will use similar modules, as a rule they don't re-use ram.

Not expecting load reduced, but if it TR can't use at least 8x32 DDR4 reg 2400(+) that is very disappointing. Running that on X99 right now. It would also not make sense as it is basically an epyc cpu cut in half.
 
I dont do pre-orders, period. Will wait a month or so and see how they perform in the wild and how reliable things are. If it looks good, ill look at buying...but I am very interested.
 
So apparently I missed it about a week ago that TR memory support is basically same as epyc, not just registered but even load reduced: Up to 1TB on 8 slots. I can spare some 32GB modules so giving it a try only means cpu board and cooler...tempting.
 
I would love to have a X1950 setup but, I cannot really justify spending that kind of money. Besides, I already upgraded 2 computers with Ryzen setups. :)
 
I cannot really justify spending that kind of money.

I have been holding off a major update on both my linux server (which is 10 years old) and my windows workstation (which is a 6C /12T X58 system) for so long I am not that much concerned about the cost but the more the reliability and how long it will last.
 
So apparently I missed it about a week ago that TR memory support is basically same as epyc, not just registered but even load reduced: Up to 1TB on 8 slots.
Do you have an official source on that?
I know that AMD said 1 TB is supported, and I have a really hard time imagining how this would be possible without LR-DIMMs. But so far I have not seen any direct confirmation from AMD that Threadripper will support LR-DIMMs or registered DIMMs.
 
Shoot man I bought the Caselabs when the dude was just starting company... I think the thing is like 7 years old now.

TH10 was one of the first cases he made.

I sold $700.00 worth of stuff to get me a 1080ti incl. my 980ti.

I m however, pending good reviews, gonna shell out an easy $1800 On just 1950x some ram and a board sigh.... But I do lots of video work and run many VMs so I can justify the cost as far as my usage.

The thread ripper may run 24/7 as a server as well as Windows gaming and workstation machine.

I will be selling my 1700x and mobo to help pay for all this so not necessarily deep pockets.

Case seems like it will last your natural life, I have had my SMA8 a number of years now, three boards later and I have a fairly recent x99-e WS 10g in it and going to get a threadripper 16 core.
 
Do you have an official source on that?
I know that AMD said 1 TB is supported, and I have a really hard time imagining how this would be possible without LR-DIMMs. But so far I have not seen any direct confirmation from AMD that Threadripper will support LR-DIMMs or registered DIMMs.

If them confirming 1TB in 8 slots wasn't enough (literally impossible w/o load reduce which is registered) now that one has been delidded and TR really are just disabled epyc chips, done deal in my book.
 
Where are they for preorder at? all I can find are prebuilt PC's...what if you just want a x399 and a 1950x?
 
Where are they for preorder at? all I can find are prebuilt PC's...what if you just want a x399 and a 1950x?
Thier not it was a bunch of misleading bullsgit and Gigabyte wqs part of the problem.

They had a fancy countdown page and all but no vendors have shit to do witj threadripper except a couple prebuilt systems.

AMD may have pulled the preorders for now and wabted to wait till later. Who the hell knows. I am going to preorder but only if I am able to return the parts if official reviews are not impressive.
 
i have to say though i do like that case, from the outside it kinda looked meh but after seeing the way the inside is laid out it looks damn good.
 
That case looks like an utter retard designed it. Oh well I am not buying it. Now a beautiful case is my TH10 or even better the Thermaltake Tower 900 the one I want to run next.

Also that motherboard is designed for maximum profit. I guess anyone buying an Alienware doesn't care about upgradability etc...

It only has 4 ram slots.

But it is great to see that a single 2x thick 120mm radiator and AIO pump is keeping the chip nice and breezy cool. I am hoping that EK has a block out on release day because I intend to buy one that week.
 
I was thinking about upgrading my main rig earlier today but given the untested nature of it all and the fact that my current box still works fine (and my Ryzen SFF build works fine), I think dumping the cash into a video card + monitor upgrade would be a better way to spend the money.
 
Fuckit, asrock x399 and 1950x on the way! Holding my spot in line at newegg but if microcenter does a good bundle preorder for launch then I'll cancel and get it there instead. Asrock hasn't messed up since my first board with them (X79) and I've gotten a bunch of different boards since. Asus (who has screwed me) wants nearly $200 more than everyone else for what? features of dubious value mostly.

Really hope noctua has their stuff selling soon because I hate CLCs, they beat the am4 launch so no reason they can't beat this one.
 
So the asrock ones look a bit lower quality than the rest, but they're the only ones with built-in Wifi...
 
For UK readers, Scan and overclockers.co.uk have boards and CPU's available for pre order, if you want to ask about pricing take the US price and change the $ sign to a £ sign
 
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