AMD Announces new Threadripper details: 64 PCIe lanes and Quad channel DDR4 on all chips,

[MysticalRainXIV]

Just now, cj09beira said:

Crossfire and multiple nvme pcie ssds

Right 4-way crossfire is still a thing

[Energycore]

Just now, MysticalRainXIV said:

Man what to do with all those PCIe lanes is now the question, since ridiculous SLI configs are out.

I'm thinking more about VM allocation: 16 gamers 1 CPU (with 2 EPYC processors so each gamer gets 4 cores, 8 threads worth of Zen arch)

And people in the super high-end workstation area will appreciate being able to hook up 8 FirePros to a single CPU

[MysticalRainXIV]

3 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I'm thinking more about VM allocation: 16 gamers 1 CPU (with 2 EPYC processors so each gamer gets 4 cores, 8 threads worth of Zen arch)

And people in the super high-end workstation area will appreciate being able to hook up 8 FirePros to a single CPU

and with 128 lanes on the EPYC sku's, oh man its gonna get crazy what people with money to burn will do

-EDIT- Thats 16 GPUs you could feasibly hook up at one time. 

[Spenser1337]

Threadripper cpus are literally bigger than my bank balance

 

literally 

[samcool55]

5 minutes ago, LordTaco42 said:

Damn Noctua on it fast.  I wonder if their previous cooler options will be compatible from the looks of the article they will be on Intel's platforms but not on AMD's.

You are probably right, TR4 is massive compared to 2066, if you thought 2066 was big, think again

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3198924/computers/amds-tr4-threadripper-cpu-socket-is-gigantic.html

Even if they make older coolers somehow fit the baseplate would be so small so it wouldn't even make sense.

 

7 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

ThreadRippers socket is TR4 (ThreadRipper + AM4) hope that helps you remember. and I hope people just refer to Threadripper as TR.

OOOOOOooooh that makes sense! Well yea that helps a lot actually, thanks 

[Drak3]

10 minutes ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

Man what to do with all those PCIe lanes is now the question, since ridiculous SLI configs are out.

4 sets of 2 way SLI'd Titan Xp's.

[cj09beira]

7 minutes ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

and with 128 lanes on the EPYC sku's, oh man its gonna get crazy what people with money to burn will do

-EDIT- Thats 16 GPUs you could feasibly hook up at one time. 

or 32 at x8 X-)

[MysticalRainXIV]

6 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

or 32 at x8 X-)

no your math is wrong. 16 cards at 8 each is 128.

[Ryujin2003]

59 minutes ago, randomhkkid said:

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So, does this mean Intel will have to math again, and come up with something new? No 399 for Intel in the future?

[randomhkkid]

36 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Phone won't let me remove the URL block...

 

So, does this mean Intel will have to math again, and come up with something new? No 399 for Intel in the future?

Nothing really extra above what I added to the OP. Intel is currently on X299 so yeah maybe.

[AnonymousGuy]

50 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

4 sets of 2 way SLI'd Titan Xp's.

But you can't even fit that in a case so I'm not sure what the use case is where you'd have single socket but a bagillion pcie cards.

[MyName13]

But...where's ryzen 3?

[cj09beira]

46 minutes ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

no your math is wrong. 16 cards at 8 each is 128.

x4 then :-P (thought you did the math with x16)

[cj09beira]

1 minute ago, MyName13 said:

But...where's ryzen 3?

will probably launch in time for the back to school season 

[MysticalRainXIV]

Just now, cj09beira said:

x4 then :-P (thought you did the math with x16)

I aint no dummy. 8x was the first thought for maximum cardage. I dunno bout that 4x tho

[cj09beira]

1 minute ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

I aint no dummy. 8x was the first thought for maximum cardage. I dunno bout that 4x tho

for compute its enough, would be great for mining :-)

edit: now that i think about it for mining x1 is enough  8-)  

[MysticalRainXIV]

3 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

for compute its enough, would be great for mining :-)

edit: now that i think about it for mining x1 is enough  8-)  

mining on gpus is pointless though at this point. Cost more in energy than you would get out of it

[cj09beira]

Just now, MysticalRainXIV said:

mining on gpus is pointless though at this point. Cost more in energy than you would get out of it

thats not true

[MysticalRainXIV]

57 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

thats not true

well for bitcoin it does AFAIK for the time being. ASIC machines are still the best bet right now

[cj09beira]

Just now, MysticalRainXIV said:

well for bitcoin it does AFAIK for the time being

bitcoin is one of the tens of coins, and most of them are made so that asic don't work (use more memory) and are very profitable 

[AnonymousGuy]

3 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

bitcoin is one of the tens of coins, and most of them are made so that asic don't work (use more memory) and are very profitable 

But only Bitcoin has any actual significance, presumably. 

[Dackzy]

Can I have this? If I ask really nice, can I have it?  

 

But for real, this looks pretty nice and I like that AMD FINALLY made a HEDT platform.

[MysticalRainXIV]

1 minute ago, AnonymousGuy said:

But only Bitcoin has any actual significance, presumably. 

unless the other coins have any value compared to bitcoin then its pointless to mine

[sazrocks]

16 minutes ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

well for bitcoin it does AFAIK for the time being. ASCII machines are still the best bet right now

Dang I didn't know they still had those. Where can I buy an ASCII machine?

 

/s

[cj09beira]

2 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

But only Bitcoin has any actual significance, presumably. 

for most miners (gpu) bitcoin is just a way to transfer money to dollars/euros,