Threadripper 1920X worth buying in 2-3 months?

[Gawron10001]

Like the question in the title. In 2 to 3 month im planning to build new pc, and thinking about Threadripper 1920X vs ryzen 2700x because of massive price drops. And because 1920x is started beeing smimilary priced as 2700x im thinking in favour of threadripper. I'm game developer and blender artist, tought TR might be a good idea. Also i game (lol, that's kinda obvius i think) but i can sacrafice some gaming performance in favour of better unity/ unreal and blender performance. I'm looking for an opinion because I don't watch over tech scene as closely as i was watching, and yes, i know about ZEN 2, but the reason im looking for older gen ryzen, is price drop connected to zen 2 premiere. 

 

[Jurrunio]

has 3rd gen Ryzen not invaded Poland yet? I mean 3rd gen Ryzen's 6 core is matching the 2nd gen 8 core, varying between different workloads. I'm not saying older CPUs aren't an option, but the 1920x + board better be cheaper than 3700x + board (not even necessarily X570) to make up for its single core and memory latency disadvantage which hurts a lot in benchmarks that prefers Intel, same for 2700x or 2700 versus 3600.

[NunoLava1998]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

has 3rd gen Ryzen not invaded Poland yet?

It probably has. just like the ussr has

[Gawron10001]

@JurrunioInsanely expansive. We have really high margin, in case of 3800x it is from 100 usd to 150 usd higher pirce. Was thinking about sniping this cpu on  black friaday deals on amazon. So in a nutshell, fuck it and go zen 2?

[NunoLava1998]

3 minutes ago, Gawron10001 said:

@JurrunioInsanely expansive. We have really high margin, in case of 3800x it is from 100 usd to 150 usd higher pirce. Was thinking about sniping this cpu on  black friaday deals on amazon. So in a nutshell, fuck it and go zen 2?

Go for a 3700X. Also Zen 2 is obviously more expensive than their Zen+ and Zen counterparts

[Jurrunio]

Just now, Gawron10001 said:

@JurrunioInsanely expansive. We have really high margin, in case of 3800x it is from 100 usd to 150 usd. Was thinking about sniping this cpu on  black friaday deals on amazon. So in a nutshell, fuck it and go zen 2?

not 3800x for sure, it's only 2-3% better than 3700x while the better cooler is easily beaten by cheap air coolers you can buy separately. $100-150 more from 2700x is worth it since unlike Blender, unity/unreal cares about Zen's weakness (latency) which has seen improvements from Zen+ to Zen 2

 

but 1920X + X399 still $100-150 cheaper than 3700x + say, b450? You have to count the board, otherwise it's not fair. If it is tho, then maybe it's a good choice for X399. With this much gains over each generation finding used older TR in the future at a good price shouldn't be hard.

[RollinLower]

8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

With this much gains over each generation finding used older TR in the future at a good price shouldn't be hard.

this. if you get a first gen TR4 chip now you have one hell of an upgrade path!

X399 boards are very expensive though. and i doubt you'll be off cheaper in X399, even if you get a secondhand board.

[Gawron10001]

@Jurrunio yeah, 3700x have much more resonable, and it will be about same price vs 1920x + used x399. So unity performance will be much better on 3700x u say? 

 

7 hours ago, RollinLower said:

this. if you get a first gen TR4 chip now you have one hell of an upgrade path!

X399 boards are very expensive though. and i doubt you'll be off cheaper in X399, even if you get a secondhand board.

That is what i was thinking of, that in future i have super solid upgrade path. Mobo prices are killing, so used might be an option.

 

@NunoLava1998 i porbably will after this post go for 3700X

 

Thanks guys!