look how cheap threadripper is now!!!!

[realsmooth59]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113457

looks like a better deal than the ryzen 7

[Asaltnado]

I noticed this aswell a few days back I thought to myself there's no way but with there new release on the way I guess they a trying to move stock also puts pressure on intel.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Somekid5 said:

looks like a better deal than the ryzen 7

If the motherboard required wasn't a couple hundred dollars more expensive, maybe. But cheaper threadripper is great for people who need lots of PCIe lanes.

[ch3w2oy]

Decent price.. Only viable if you need quad channel memory and extra PCIe lanes.. Also doesn't come with cooler.. I would just wait.. I wouldn't buy one over the 2700X, but I have no use for it, either..

[GoldenLag]

if you ever needed PCIe lanes, sure. 

 

other than that the consumer plattform is better. 

[DrMacintosh]

The processor might be cheap, but look at TR 4 motherboards. Those are not cheap. 

[selecadm]

Threadripper for $290? I spent $250 on Ryzen 5 1600.

[realsmooth59]

38 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

The processor might be cheap, but look at TR 4 motherboards. Those are not cheap.

sadly

[BigRom]

I suppose its cheap, if for some reason you have a X299 motherboard lying about 

[Gohardgrandpa]

It’s cheap but not a better deal then ryzen 7, hell I paid that much for my 1800x and b450 board 

[Kitsan]

This is a bizarre thread, that is a fantastic price for a workstation PC that utilizes the extra RAM/cores/threads/pci-e lanes. I really don't see how you can compare it to a Ryzen 7 which is designed for a regular use (lets face it, games and web-browsing) as the 7 will stomp all over it in that arena. 

[maartendc]

7 hours ago, remus243 said:

This is a bizarre thread, that is a fantastic price for a workstation PC that utilizes the extra RAM/cores/threads/pci-e lanes. I really don't see how you can compare it to a Ryzen 7 which is designed for a regular use (lets face it, games and web-browsing) as the 7 will stomp all over it in that arena. 

Yeah it just depends on your usage. Obviously if you are talking about more than 8 cores, there is no competition. But people are comparing the 1900X (8C/16T) to the Ryzen 2700X (8C/16T), which is a good question to ask.

 

Ryzen 2700X will have higher Boost clocks, so will beat it in productivity tasks as well.

 

How many people really need the extra RAM / PCI-e lanes / ECC memmory? Most people who get threadripper would be for high end video editing, CAD work, rendering, etc. etc. So apart from more cores, I don't know why you would need those extra features.

 

Same at my office: we have these expensive workstations with XEONS and Quadro's in them for CAD use. But in my opinion it would be better and cheaper to just get a consumer CPU and a GTX 1080Ti or something.. If they didnt cost $5000 each, you'd be able to upgrade more frequently, and everyone would have a faster workstation because of it.

 

[Kitsan]

I work at an aerospace engineering company and the reason they use xeons is because the cost of the setup is many multiples less than the lost time over the course that it takes to depreciate the asset