Anyone looking forward to ThreadRipper?

[orangecat]

I'm thinking about upgrading my 3570K to a ThreadRipper CPU sometime after they come out. I will probably go with whatever model has the highest clock speed and so far I think that's the 12 or 14 core but I'm not sure.

[Tiwaz]

wait for the cpu to actually get released and see the benchmarks. Ofc i am looking forward to new releases so Intel gets a bit cheaper

[Vegetable]

going from an i5 to a threadripper is a big difference in core count lol. what part of your day requires a 12c/24t+ chip just curious

[Tiwaz]

2 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

 

I also like the idea since you can get rid of the heat more efficiently. Noctua already had cpu coolers two weeks after threadripper was anounced

(see Crit's video)[thats former TekSyndicate]

[orangecat]

2 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

going from an i5 to a threadripper is a big difference in core count lol. what part of your day requires a 12c/24t+ chip just curious

Nothing really other than your typical power user stuff. Mostly I want one because it looks awesome. Might wait to see what the i9 CPUs are like compared to the i7s too.

[orangecat]

6 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

I'm excited only because it's a big cpu

I can't lie that's part of it too. I mean just look at that monster. 

[orangecat]

1 minute ago, Tibbles said:

Threadripper is way out of my reach though, even if I were to buy used in a few years it'd still be expensive. So I'm probably gonna go with some old socket g34 opterons to satisfy my tinkering needs. 

If I saved for a while I'm sure i could eventually get ahold of one but I won't be doing that until easily a year or so after launch.

[domandric034]

11 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

I'm excited only because it's a big cpu

Wait it uses LGA ?!

Gotta say AMD you hooked me up. I will maybe throw my i5 in trash and get that one.

[domandric034]

3 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

Yeah.

My i5 is going in trash.

[19_blackie_73]

Just now, domandric034 said:

My i5 is going in trash.

I take your trash can with the i5 no problem?

[domandric034]

Just now, Tibbles said:

Give it to me /s  

Nah maybe it will be my test bench. Currently using my old ATHLON 6000+ with 4 GB of RAM and HD 3650

[domandric034]

1 minute ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

I take your trash can with the i5 no problem?

Nope I will make sure to break it before throwing it in trash

[Vegetable]

11 hours ago, Kilobytez95 said:

Nothing really other than your typical power user stuff. Mostly I want one because it looks awesome. Might wait to see what the i9 CPUs are like compared to the i7s too.

fair point lmao. Im curious as to whether my Kraken X61's CPU block is even large enough to accommodate such a large CPU. Im not in any need of more than 6 physical cores (+hyperthreads) myself so I'm not interested in buying it, but it's great to see AMD doing actual things again