9950X $420 at MC

[pututu]

https://www.microcenter.com/product...16-core-boxed-processor-heatsink-not-included

Pickup only.

 

[celwin]

Tempted but with a 7950x, it's not really worth the upgrade.

 

[pututu]

Tempted but with a 7950x, it's not really worth the upgrade.

True if you are into mostly games but for specific computational workloads that require vector-based computation, the full avx-512 instruction set with 512-bit register will boost at least 40% improvement over 7950x which uses 256-bit register with double clock to simulate avx-512 instruction set.