Threadripper 1900x

[Maddenman8815]

Why aren’t we recommending threadripper 1900x at 199$ with 12 cores seems legit

[Guest]

It's 8 cores. The 1920X is 12.

[Lorant]

1 minute ago, Den-Fi said:

It's 8 cores. The 1920X is 12.

Ain't bad at $199 for the 1920X tho...

 

https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Threadripper-24-thread-Processor-YD192XA8AEWOF/dp/B074CBJHCT

 

 

[Maddenman8815]

Atleast I got the series right lol and that’s the one I ment lol

[Jurrunio]

because the boards are expensive and single core performance still limits its use.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Lorant said:

Ain't bad at $199 for the 1920X tho...

 

https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Threadripper-24-thread-Processor-YD192XA8AEWOF/dp/B074CBJHCT

 

 

If one needs lanes and not necessarily single core perf, yeah. Boards aren't terribly priced.

[Maddenman8815]

So gaming is a no go 

[WereCat]

Because its very niche. 

$199 ain't bad but the motherboards can get expensive. You get quite a bit more PCIe lanes but unless you absolutely need that (and most users don't) then you can grab a 2700X usually for even cheaper that works also on cheaper motherboards.

Yes, the 1900X has a Quad Channel DRAM support but since its only a 8-core the need for Quad Channel gets even more niche.

The single threaded performance is also lacking. 

 

 

Honestly, most users will benefit more from a 6-core R5 3600 than a 8-core TR 1900X.

[Lorant]

4 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Because its very niche. 

$199 ain't bad but the motherboards can get expensive. You get quite a bit more PCIe lanes but unless you absolutely need that (and most users don't) then you can grab a 2700X usually for even cheaper that works also on cheaper motherboards.

Yes, the 1900X has a Quad Channel DRAM support but since its only a 8-core the need for Quad Channel gets even more niche.

The single threaded performance is also lacking. 

 

 

Honestly, most users will benefit more from a 6-core R5 3600 than a 8-core TR 1900X.

$199 is for the 12 core TR 1920X, not the 8 core. 

 

Not that your argument changes, but it's nice to see 12 cores for 2 bills for those that need.

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, Maddenman8815 said:

So gaming is a no go 

Correct. The use cases for this are verrrrrry limited. 

[Jrasero]

21 minutes ago, Maddenman8815 said:

Why aren’t we recommending threadripper 1900x at 199$ with 12 cores seems legit

because a 3600 probably games just as well if not better.  Or just going with a last gen 2700X if you need the cores which was as low as $135 on sale 

[Maddenman8815]

1 minute ago, Jrasero said:

because a 3600 probably games just as well if not better.  Or just going with a last gen 2700X if you need the cores which was as low as $135 on sale 

Every 2900 I’ve seen is not cheaper than this

 

[Jrasero]

3 minutes ago, Maddenman8815 said:

Every 2900 I’ve seen is not cheaper than this

 

2900? 

[Jrasero]

the only reason to buy a 1900X is if you need quad channel RAM or boat loads of PCIe lanes.  other than that you have to buy into an expensive and essentially dead X399 platform.  There was a lot of growing pains even with first gen TR that never got fully ironed until gen 2-3 

[mariushm]

They're cheap, but when you add in the price of the motherboard it's not worth it, unless you really need 60 pci-e lanes or more than 128 GB of memory.

 

As an idea, a Threadripper 1900x scores 16k points on cpubenchmark site, while Ryzen 3600 scores 20k points and x570 boards can do pci-e 4.0 and 128 GB of memory.

 

[mockedarche]

The 2700x was 160$ the other day. 

[As Above Sota Below]

I just acquired a barely used 1900x + Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 as trade for work deal. I will be doing a lot of Lightroom + Photoshop editing and Premier + After Effects video timelapse stuff from RAW photo timelapses. I will also be doing some gaming and streaming when I get free time for the rest of the winter. I've read that Single Rank Memory is best for Threadripper, but is that true for all Threadripper's or just the high core count CPU's?

 

Will populating all 8 DIMMs negatively effect gaming performance, if so can I go into BIOS and turn off some RAM? I was thinking of finding the fastest 8 x 8 configuration that I can.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, As Above Sota Below said:

I just acquired a barely used 1900x + Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 as trade for work deal. I will be doing a lot of Lightroom + Photoshop editing and Premier + After Effects video timelapse stuff from RAW photo timelapses. I will also be doing some gaming and streaming when I get free time for the rest of the winter. I've read that Single Rank Memory is best for Threadripper, but is that true for all Threadripper's or just the high core count CPU's?

 

Will populating all 8 DIMMs negatively effect gaming performance, if so can I go into BIOS and turn off some RAM? I was thinking of finding the fastest 8 x 8 configuration that I can.

Not really an ideal system for your use case, but it'll still perform. First gen TR has a real rough time memory controller wise when you populate all DIMMs. You'll likely be locked to 2933 max no matter what you do.