AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pre-buy - NOW LIVE

Chew on those prices Intel! Time for a server upgrade, just need to convince the wife.
 
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Good to see them available, if even just for pre-order. A bit more than my needs, and quite a bit more than my budget allows, but at least there's options again for this space!
 
Indeed its good to see them available, especially some of the top-end versions! Anyone who pre-ordered, does Amazon charge these immediately? Or not until shipment?

I wonder if there will be a similar pre-order for X399 motherboards. coming soon.
 
Xaeos said:
Indeed its good to see them available, especially some of the top-end versions! Anyone who pre-ordered, does Amazon charge these immediately? Or not until shipment?

I wonder if there will be a similar pre-order for X399 motherboards. coming soon.
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Haven't pre-ordered TR yet, but amazon hasn't charged until my order shipped for other pre-orders.
 
About the only thing that would make Vega appealing to me at this point would be is if the discount bundle applied to a 1920x or 1950x rather than basic Ryzen.
 
wow with exchange it's not actually that terrible.

1250 and 999 CAD.

any word on mobo pricing?
 
As it stands, I don't understand why that ROG costs $550?

The Taichi looks very reasonable.
 
Dan_D said:
This. It's not hard to figure out. We've had $500+ HEDT boards for a few years now.
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The ROG has always had extra features, outside from fancy lights and gimmick durability. All I really saw was a different IO layout.
 
How does everyone feel about the motherboard offerings? I personally was looking at the Asus Zenith and though I knew it was going to be expensive, I didn't think it would be equally expensive to the Asus Intel HEDP "Rampage Extreme" series , given that AMD chipsets are typically cheaper than Intel ones. I thought everything would be shifted down $50 to $100.

Comparing all of the launch day offerings I am curious - I'm pretty sure the Zenith Extreme is meant to be the highest-end Asus board for TR4 socket and that nothing is going to come along in a few months to replace it. Are any of the other manufactuer's boards the highest-end variants? For instance, I am thinking the AsRock MIGHT be, given its increase priced compared to others and features like 10G Ethernet card, but I'm pretty sure that the MSI board is not the highest-tier as I thought those were named "Big Bang / XPOWER" or more recently "Godlike" somewhere in their model. I'm not familiar enough with the name schemes for anyone besides Asus (which seems to have the most logical ROG board names comprised of Family Name, Era Number, Feature Level Name, and sometimes Sub-Level Name) to be sure.

Overall it seems that at the very high end of boards that near $400+, Asus offering becomes one of if not "the" board to have for overclocking performance and other features. How does everyone feel about the Zenith Extreme and its price premium? I am guessing that its costs above other TR4 socket boards have to do with the 10G card which admittedly probably adds a big chunk of change, the 802.11ad wireless (backward compatible to 802.11AC and below. I noticed it has 3 antenna, but I wonder... is it 1 antenna exclusively for AD, and the other 2 for AC? Can both AD and AC use all 3? If not, what are the ramifications to performance for a single-antenna 802.11ad ? ) , the onboard LCD near the rear ports, not to mention all of the other modern high end features like RGB lighting, enhanced cooling etc. However, the Zenith does not have the special audio card front panel break-out box that the Rampage V Edition 10 did, nor does it have the "whole body armor" setup that one sees on the Intel X299 Rampage VI Extreme, so it seems there are some differences besides just the platform. Of those currently available it seems no question that the Zenith has the most additional features - but before I buy I want to be sure it will keep the crown!
 
Xaeos said:
How does everyone feel about the motherboard offerings?
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Based on what is currently available on newegg, I'm not impressed. I wouldn't be buying TR for an awesome, blingy gaming rig, and all of those boards seem to be going that route. I just need a good, stable, no-nonsense board to get work done. Maybe if SuperMicro puts an X399 board out, I'll be interested.
 
jardows said:
Based on what is currently available on newegg, I'm not impressed. I wouldn't be buying TR for an awesome, blingy gaming rig, and all of those boards seem to be going that route. I just need a good, stable, no-nonsense board to get work done. Maybe if SuperMicro puts an X399 board out, I'll be interested.
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Agreed, I've been watching as all these makers reveal their boards and just getting pissed off. Why aren't any of them real workstation/server boards? Why is it all RGB and goofy chipset heatsinks? Just give me a plain board with a layout for normal air flow (vertical DIMM orientation wtf!?) and real high end features: 10 GBe NICS, IPMI, a decent HBA!

All these boards seem good for is idling a dozen threads and having a bunch of unpopulated PCI-e slots, but I guess you'll be able to have the entire Battlefield Eleventy directory sitting in cache on your 128 GBs of RAM.
 
And so it begins...


Man, the 1900x is more my speed but how many weeks till it drops?
 
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Well, I suppose its worthwhile to note that many TR adopters are going to be going for an "awesome, blingy gaming/desktop/workstation" build so it doesn't surprise me many boards focus on such a thing. After all, much like Intel's HEDP, AMD's HEDP are "Desktop platforms" after all - and if you're paying all this money for the high end, no matter if its for staid workstation use, gaming, overclocking or all of the above, I'm glad all of these features are included. Supermicro and Asus WS Workstation type boards will come I am sure, just as happened with Intel - the platform will have have both "gaming exclusive focused" and "server/workstation exclusive" boards, as well as the highest end "Everything plus the kitchen sink" boards that cover most of those features well. If you're building something exclusively for server tasks, you can also use TR4 socket EPYC boards unless I'm mistaken. However especially for the highest end boards like the Zenith which include things like the 10GBe NICs, while also supporting ECC RAM and all of those TR PCI-E lanes and other features, I expect they'd make a pretty great server build too.
 
I'm extremely tempted to do an all AMD build at this point with TR4 and Vega 64, just because. But ultimately I'll wait for the reviews to decide between a 1950X and a 7920X.
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Chew on those prices Intel! Time for a server upgrade, just need to convince the wife.
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You know the X399 prices are basically the same as X299. You're not really saving any money here between a 1950X and 7900X.
Xaeos said:
How does everyone feel about the motherboard offerings? I personally was looking at the Asus Zenith and though I knew it was going to be expensive, I didn't think it would be equally expensive to the Asus Intel HEDP "Rampage Extreme" series , given that AMD chipsets are typically cheaper than Intel ones. I thought everything would be shifted down $50 to $100.

Comparing all of the launch day offerings I am curious - I'm pretty sure the Zenith Extreme is meant to be the highest-end Asus board for TR4 socket and that nothing is going to come along in a few months to replace it. Are any of the other manufactuer's boards the highest-end variants? For instance, I am thinking the AsRock MIGHT be, given its increase priced compared to others and features like 10G Ethernet card, but I'm pretty sure that the MSI board is not the highest-tier as I thought those were named "Big Bang / XPOWER" or more recently "Godlike" somewhere in their model. I'm not familiar enough with the name schemes for anyone besides Asus (which seems to have the most logical ROG board names comprised of Family Name, Era Number, Feature Level Name, and sometimes Sub-Level Name) to be sure.

Overall it seems that at the very high end of boards that near $400+, Asus offering becomes one of if not "the" board to have for overclocking performance and other features. How does everyone feel about the Zenith Extreme and its price premium? I am guessing that its costs above other TR4 socket boards have to do with the 10G card which admittedly probably adds a big chunk of change, the 802.11ad wireless (backward compatible to 802.11AC and below. I noticed it has 3 antenna, but I wonder... is it 1 antenna exclusively for AD, and the other 2 for AC? Can both AD and AC use all 3? If not, what are the ramifications to performance for a single-antenna 802.11ad ? ) , the onboard LCD near the rear ports, not to mention all of the other modern high end features like RGB lighting, enhanced cooling etc. However, the Zenith does not have the special audio card front panel break-out box that the Rampage V Edition 10 did, nor does it have the "whole body armor" setup that one sees on the Intel X299 Rampage VI Extreme, so it seems there are some differences besides just the platform. Of those currently available it seems no question that the Zenith has the most additional features - but before I buy I want to be sure it will keep the crown!
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ASUS usually doesn't disappoint with overclocking. I would consider that the Aorus had the best cooling and power phases on X299, though. Might not be a big deal with X399, but you never know. I would never do a platform upgrade before reviews are out and all the issues are fixed, though.
 
I'd rather buy a Xeon over either (TR/intel 7900) of these parts. This is server class without the ability to address more than 1TB of memory. Last time I check The HEDT platforms were limited to only 128GB ram.
 
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