Hot? Threadripper 1920x 12 core, 24 thread $399.99 @ amazon

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People purchased these from Amazon for $250 recently. You can get them new for around $350 on eBay.
 
aznever said:
People purchased these from Amazon for $250 recently. You can get them new for around $350 on eBay.
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That was the 1900x that was $250 on Amazon. Although I am seeing one or two 1920X TRs on ebay for $350. Anything in the $400 range or less is a hell of a deal for this much CPU.
 
No, it was the 1920x. That said it was a one off from Amazon, should not count on that price being there again any time soon.
 
Looks like the 9999k has even more competition if this price sticks around..
 
Does anyone know how much (if any) of a downgrade this would be from a 4770k (stock clocks) for gaming under Linux at 1080p with a GTX 1080?
 
Jinto said:
No, it was the 1920x. That said it was a one off from Amazon, should not count on that price being there again any time soon.
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My bad, I completely missed that the 1920x was $250 for a few hours in August. I know the 1900x was $250 much more recently and thought that was the sale being referenced. Turns out it is a good thing I missed the $250 deal for a 1920x because I would have bought one immediately, and then my wallet would have been very sad at having to buy a motherboard and some more memory to use it. I just have to keep telling myself that my 1600x is more than fast enough.
 
/dev/null said:
Does anyone know how much (if any) of a downgrade this would be from a 4770k (stock clocks) for gaming under Linux at 1080p with a GTX 1080?
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I went from a 5Ghz 3770K to a 4.1Ghz 1600 to a 4.3Ghz 2700 and have been very happy. Pair it with some decent ram and you are good to go. That said, if you are going to invest in a 399 board, at this point I would buy one of the new boards that can support the 32C with heavy OC'ing just so Zen2 (TR3 SKUs) is a done deal.
 
ccityinstaller said:
I went from a 5Ghz 3770K to a 4.1Ghz 1600 to a 4.3Ghz 2700 and have been very happy. Pair it with some decent ram and you are good to go. That said, if you are going to invest in a 399 board, at this point I would buy one of the new boards that can support the 32C with heavy OC'ing just so Zen2 (TR3 SKUs) is a done deal.
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Did you improve performance in your task? do you play games? did it increase game play performance? (fps)

I'm on a 4770 non K, was wondering if going to AMD will improve my gaming experience on a 1440p monitor.
 
Richneerd said:
Did you improve performance in your task? do you play games? did it increase game play performance? (fps)

I'm on a 4770 non K, was wondering if going to AMD will improve my gaming experience on a 1440p monitor.
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threadripper is not going to give you improved gaming - you should get a 2700x if you want that.
 
yes, threadripper is for multithread heavy tasks, say, video transcoding, not gaming which is still mostly about single thread. AFAIK the ThreadRipper 2950X is an exception: it is the fastest among AMD in single thread, about 20% below the fastest Intel single threads -- and destroys any Intel in multicore cheaper than twice its price. If you want a video transcoding beast that pulls double duty as a gaming station but only as a secondary priority, the 2950X is where it is. This would be a base machine https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BfZ3dX
 
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/dev/null said:
Does anyone know how much (if any) of a downgrade this would be from a 4770k (stock clocks) for gaming under Linux at 1080p with a GTX 1080?
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I'm not sure under Linux but it would probably be pretty close in most games. I moved from a 7700k to a 1700x and it was anywhere from about equal (BF1) to a pretty hefty downgrade (almost everything else).
 
Richneerd said:
Did you improve performance in your task? do you play games? did it increase game play performance? (fps)

I'm on a 4770 non K, was wondering if going to AMD will improve my gaming experience on a 1440p monitor.
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It will be a wash as the 1920x has nearly the same IPC as the 4770k maybe a tiny bit less. I would say the variance will be 3-5 fps +- depending on the game. The caveat is if the game properly uses more than 4 threads such as Battlefield 1 the 1920x will pull away there. It really is a workstation cpu and an ok gaming cpu.
 
Spun Ducky said:
It will be a wash as the 1920x has nearly the same IPC as the 4770k maybe a tiny bit less. I would say the variance will be 3-5 fps +- depending on the game. The caveat is if the game properly uses more than 4 threads such as Battlefield 1 the 1920x will pull away there. It really is a workstation cpu and an ok gaming cpu.
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+1

And really, at 1440p or 4k games are primarily going to be GPU bound with any of the processors mentioned in this thread.

At 1080p and with a high end GPU, then we'll start to see CPU bound fps numbers. However, in those cases it will only really matter with 244hz refresh rates if that's a consideration.

I really want a 1920x to speed up encoding work and do a little cryptocurrency mining when my PC is otherwise idle. If gaming were the main consideration, I'd have no reason to want anything better than my 1600x.
 
Spun Ducky said:
It will be a wash as the 1920x has nearly the same IPC as the 4770k maybe a tiny bit less. I would say the variance will be 3-5 fps +- depending on the game. The caveat is if the game properly uses more than 4 threads such as Battlefield 1 the 1920x will pull away there. It really is a workstation cpu and an ok gaming cpu.
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Thanks for the update, looks like another few years with the 4770

Thanks!
 
I really want to do one of these builds but all those threads are probably a waste on pubg and Tarkov.....
 
wadec22 said:
I really want to do one of these builds but all those threads are probably a waste on pubg and Tarkov.....
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I am in the same boat, however my current workstation is a dual e5-2665 from sandy bridge setup. I decided to take the middle ground and ordered 2 e5-2670 v2 cpus. So that bumps me up to 10 cores per cpu, ivy bridge improvement, and 100mhz faster clock for 200 bucks. I figured this was a better upgrade cost wise as this setup will match this threadripper chip in multicore performance. I do software development so while I game, workstation use is priority. I also have the motherboards and tons of ddr3 ecc already so 200 bucks instead of a grand or more to get up and running. I have been using these high core count lower clock type of chips for years as gaming rigs. The gaming even with a high end card is fine for the majority of games but not high fps. The other issue is any game that is dependent on a single strong core even if it is multithreaded tend to run rather poorly. Guild wars 2 comes to mind as a game that really shows the worst case of these types of chips. It is a quad core game but 1 core does the majority of work so playable but relatively low fps compared to a standard cpu.
 
I was thinking of setting up a threadripper for a lab to host vms but then I saw a HPz820 dual xeon with 64gb of ram and 3x300 gb sas drives for 900 bucks. ready to go just install OS....yeah...I want to play with threadripper but for VMs - I think I am better off with intel.
 
Spun Ducky said:
I am in the same boat, however my current workstation is a dual e5-2665 from sandy bridge setup. I decided to take the middle ground and ordered 2 e5-2670 v2 cpus. So that bumps me up to 10 cores per cpu, ivy bridge improvement, and 100mhz faster clock for 200 bucks. I figured this was a better upgrade cost wise as this setup will match this threadripper chip in multicore performance. I do software development so while I game, workstation use is priority. I also have the motherboards and tons of ddr3 ecc already so 200 bucks instead of a grand or more to get up and running. I have been using these high core count lower clock type of chips for years as gaming rigs. The gaming even with a high end card is fine for the majority of games but not high fps. The other issue is any game that is dependent on a single strong core even if it is multithreaded tend to run rather poorly. Guild wars 2 comes to mind as a game that really shows the worst case of these types of chips. It is a quad core game but 1 core does the majority of work so playable but relatively low fps compared to a standard cpu.
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These 12 core ThreadRipper processors seem to have a 4.0 GHz Precision Boost (up to 4.2 GHz with XFR) which is about the same as a Ryzen CPU. So you don't lose much with ThreadRipper. The slower core speeds of the Intel Xeon CPUs would affect games as you said. I always wanted to try one of those.
 
I am still trying to decide - I can get a 1950x and mobo for 1000 or I can get a Z820 - HP Z820 Workstation 16 Core (x2) Intel Xeon E5-2687W 32GB 600GB HDD Quadro 5000 for 1000. The 1950x and mobo would replace my 1700x and mobo so I have the ram/video card HDDs etc. This will serve as my Hyper-V headless server or ESXi box (still trying to decide which one I want to go with - but a lot of my clients have hyper-v because of the cost so I need to make sure our ovfs work in Hyper-v). Anyhow - I can get a 1920x from ebay for about 350, mobo for about 300 and cooler for about 50 so that puts me at 700 - for anothre 300 I can go a 1950x or just buy the complete system listed above. The question is the 1950x THAT much better than a dual Xeon 2687w?
 
groebuck said:
I am still trying to decide - I can get a 1950x and mobo for 1000 or I can get a Z820 - HP Z820 Workstation 16 Core (x2) Intel Xeon E5-2687W 32GB 600GB HDD Quadro 5000 for 1000. The 1950x and mobo would replace my 1700x and mobo so I have the ram/video card HDDs etc. This will serve as my Hyper-V headless server or ESXi box (still trying to decide which one I want to go with - but a lot of my clients have hyper-v because of the cost so I need to make sure our ovfs work in Hyper-v). Anyhow - I can get a 1920x from ebay for about 350, mobo for about 300 and cooler for about 50 so that puts me at 700 - for anothre 300 I can go a 1950x or just buy the complete system listed above. The question is the 1950x THAT much better than a dual Xeon 2687w?
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Since this involves business and sounds like it would be running 24/7 as a server. I would go with the 1950x because of power usage and modern features. $300 bucks can go fast in extra power usage depending on electric rates an in area with a dual socket setup.
 
Spun Ducky said:
Since this involves business and sounds like it would be running 24/7 as a server. I would go with the 1950x because of power usage and modern features. $300 bucks can go fast in extra power usage depending on electric rates an in area with a dual socket setup.
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It's my home lab - but I work from home as an SE but a good point - I will run the power consumption numbers
 
actually - according to the numbers the 2 xeons are more power effcient than the threadripper
 
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