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OK, giving the benefit of the doubt here that this is actually a good faith effort to learn something...

 

It would "work" for gaming but it's way way far from optimal.

 

The Threadripper 3990x is a workstation CPU. Purely for gaming there are CPU's that cost much less which will do better.

 

No game in existence can come close to using so much RAM.

 

You could probably install every game on Steam and still not use up all of this storage capacity. 

 

SLI is dead so two 3090 ti's won't work any better in games than one. 

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Is this one of those "look how expensive I can make my PCPP build" lists? I mean, why wouldn't it work, it's just silly to have these many drives in a gaming system.

 

There's no real point in having this many drives, there's no advantage to two 3090 Ti for gaming, you really don't need 256 GB of RAM and why would you use a ridiculous amount of cores rather than fewer faster cores…

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1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

Is this one of those "look how expensive I can make my PCPP build" lists? I mean, why wouldn't it work, it's just silly to have these many drives in a gaming system.

It's not their first.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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1 minute ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

I’m just trying to learn 😞

Learn what exactly?

 

Yes, such a system could be used for gaming. But it's ridiculously overpriced and doesn't offer any advantage over a system with e.g. a single 3090 Ti, a R7 5800x, 32 GB of RAM and much less storage. Having 64 cores is useless for gaming, since basically no game engine today scales much beyond 6-8 cores. So having 6-8 cores running at a faster speed will give you more performance than 64 slower cores. Virtually no modern game can use more than one GPU, so having dual 3090 Tis also doesn't do anything. And unless you want to install all of the games at once, you really don't need multiple terabytes worth of storage.

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2 minutes ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

I’m just trying to learn 😞

The single core speed is bad enough on that CPU it does worse than a 3950x in games.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/4

It's also out performed by the 9900k. In games, even the $150 12400 would make the 3990x look bad.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

Learn what exactly?

 

Yes, such a system could be used for gaming. But it's ridiculously overpriced and doesn't offer any advantage over a system with e.g. a single 3090 Ti, a R7 5800x, 32 GB of RAM and much less storage. Having 64 cores is useless for gaming, since basically no game engine today scales much beyond 6-8 cores. So having 6-8 cores running at a faster speed will give you more performance than 64 slower cores. Virtually no modern game can use more than one GPU, so having dual 3090 Tis also doesn't do anything. And unless you want to install all of the games at once, you really don't need multiple terabytes worth of storage.

Thank you. This is helpful, as I didn’t know this

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Just now, IkeaGnome said:

The single core speed is bad enough on that CPU it does worse than a 3950x in games.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/4

It's also out performed by the 9900k. In games, even the $150 12400 would make the 3990x look bad.

I see…

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Just now, IkeaGnome said:

The single core speed is bad enough on that CPU it does worse than a 3950x in games.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/4

It's also out performed by the 9900k. In games, even the $150 12400 would make the 3990x look bad.

Thats because its meant for heavy workstation applications and not gaming.

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OK, giving the benefit of the doubt here that this is actually a good faith effort to learn something...

 

It would "work" for gaming but it's way way far from optimal.

 

The Threadripper 3990x is a workstation CPU. Purely for gaming there are CPU's that cost much less which will do better.

 

No game in existence can come close to using so much RAM.

 

You could probably install every game on Steam and still not use up all of this storage capacity. 

 

SLI is dead so two 3090 ti's won't work any better in games than one. 

Corps aren't your friends. "Bottleneck calculators" are BS. Only suckers buy based on brand. It's your PC, do what makes you happy.  If your build meets your needs, you don't need anyone else to "rate" it for you. And talking about being part of a "master race" is cringe. Watch this space for further truths people need to hear.

 

 

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Just now, rippy4500 said:

Thats because its meant for heavy workstation applications and not gaming.

I didn't feel like I needed to also touch on that point after @Eigenvektorexplained it a lot better than I was planning to. 

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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1 minute ago, Middcore said:

OK, trying to actually be informative here accepting this is actually a good faith effort to learn something...

 

It would "work" for gaming but it's way way far from optimal.

 

The Threadripper 3990x is a workstation CPU. Purely for gaming there CPU's that cost much less which will do better.

 

No game in existence can come close to using so much RAM.

 

You could probably install every game on Steam and still not use up all of this storage capacity. 

 

SLI is dead so two 3090 ti's won't work any better in games than one. 

I think minecraft can use over 32gb with tons and tons of mods and huge texture packs, thats the closest you would get.

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2 minutes ago, rippy4500 said:

I think minecraft can use over 32gb with tons and tons of mods and huge texture packs, thats the closest you would get.

So you are saying get 32gb of ram unless you like waiting 10hours for a game to launch

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3 minutes ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

So you are saying get 32gb of ram unless you like waiting 10hours for a game to launch

No im not saying its good, im just saying with the WORST possble scenario thats what you would need. 99.999% of games will not use more than 16gb even with mods

 

Edit: Upgrading ram capacity past what you need yields NO benefit. You are better off spending that money on faster ram.

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6 minutes ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

So you are saying get 32gb of ram unless you like waiting 10hours for a game to launch

 

No. 16GB is enough for 90% of gaming builds. Quantity of RAM will also have little impact on how long it takes games to launch. 

Corps aren't your friends. "Bottleneck calculators" are BS. Only suckers buy based on brand. It's your PC, do what makes you happy.  If your build meets your needs, you don't need anyone else to "rate" it for you. And talking about being part of a "master race" is cringe. Watch this space for further truths people need to hear.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

Would 8gb of ram be enough for games?

depends. if its 2x4gb it shoudl work fine, i have one pc with 2x4gb and runs most games fine, modenr games struggle a bit.

 

2 minutes ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

Should I just get faster ram?

buying faster ram is usually a waste of money. if you have DDR1333mhz and buy 1666mhz, well you probably would not see any improvement.

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This falls into "fantasy builds" category. So builds you aren't actually gonna every make and want to just fool around with most expensive possible parts. These threads are pointless and thus are locked (applies to your other thread).

 

If you want to ask about parts, issues etc. you really don't need to create fantasy build for that. Just be normal.

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