Recent content by bobzdar

Yeah, I guess the line is a bit blurry. I think if AMD released a 7000 (or 9000) series threadripper with a vcache ccd, that would be pretty clearly an HEDT offering as it wouldn't be catering to just productivity/work.

TRX50 = HEDT, no? WRX80 (ie PRO) is Workstation.

That's TRX50 man. You can get the Asus SAGE that will do what you want, you might need to use a single riser cable if you have a 3 slot GPU to get the 5th PCIE slot you need but that's fairly trivial to do.

I don't think so because that kind of massive high speed storage is, in itself, a niche use case. I always ask in here when people say they need all that high speed storage, why they need it. It's a lot of 'hosting my media collection' stuff which is really really niche, spending $5k on...

Same with additional ram bandwidth, really. There are extreme diminishing returns over ddr5 6000 in almost all apps, so really another niche use case that Threadripper or Epyc solve.

Exactly, it doesn't offer much new, just a small iteration but anyone jumping on AM5 should go right to it vs. the older 600's.

When those are one and the same, that's what they do.

Did they mention the x3d parts at all? That's what I'll be interested in.

I don't think they will - more lanes falls in threadripper or epyc territory, it's a tiny niche on desktop.

I believe it only allows negative values so you won't gain much - but iirc Asus boards have it (my b550m tuf gaming did), can't remember which others do.

Depends on your current system and how often you are willing to upgrade.

Pretty cool tbh - gaming loads are only in the 50's and 60's, all core only jumps to mid 70's. It may have seen 80C once or twice when I was doing photogrammetry, that's the only situation I've pegged both cpu and gpu at 100% utilization and the only time it runs sustained 100% load on the cpu...

Yep - I waited until prices came down on boards and ram and then jumped in - bonus was they dropped prices of the x3d chips as well. I was surprised at the jump I got from my previous 5800x3d setup tbh. Will wait and see on the next gen, but if we're talking 20% I'll probably have to go for it...

They're good at innovating, not so much on executing...

I'm very lucky that my wife is understanding. I only risk getting beaten when she goes out to the garage....