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Well, everything seems to check out nicely.

Just a word of advice, Threadripper is very PICKY on how you insert the RAM.

Not sure if it's due to the slots having only one locking mechanism, to save space, or just another quirk when it comes to Ryzen and memory.

 

Anyway, it's going to be nice to have 32 GBs.  Gonna be much easier when dealing with large textures.

  1. dizmo

    dizmo

    AMD's pickiness with memory is one of the reasons I've gone back to Intel.

    32GB of RAM is nice! My roommate has 32 in his gaming rig.

  2. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @dizmo RAM pickiness is better then it was, but it still has a long way to go.

  3. dizmo

    dizmo

    Agreed. I actually have high hopes for Zen2, or perhaps Zen2+. By then not only should they be almost caught up if not ahead of Intel, but their motherboard ecosystem will be matured and maybe we'll see more boards with more than one M.2 slot. Though, if Intel changes their lineup so that the i5 has hyper threading and the i7 gets 8 cores...I think Intel will still be the better choice. Unless they're severely undercut by AMD price wise, and AMD manages an even further improvement on their included cooler.

     

    I love times like these.

  4. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    Around the time the Meltdown patches started rolling out, I got a BIOS update that really helped with RAM.  Although Ryzen still tends to shit their pants then dealing with dual sided DIEs.

     

    As far as competition goes between AMD and Intel, I think AMD has the advantage when it comes to packing a lot of cores in a CPU cheaply, but the same technology that allows them to do that has some weaknesses that has become apparent ever since consumers got their hands on Ryzen.

     

    As long as AMD can continue ironing out those weaknesses, while also making good performance gains, they may leapfrog over Intel.

    Even if they don't, if they continue to put pressure on Intel to improve, or get left behind, i'll call that a win in my book.

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