Preview: Threadripper 2950X and 2990WX (specs and unboxing)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/06/2018 03:01 PM | source: | 59 comment(s)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper Gen2 today goes on pre-order. AMD will release four new models, in this little preview we'll have a look at the precise specifications, and of course we'll show a little TLC as well while unboxing the Threadripper 2950X (16c/32t) and the all new flagship, Threadripper 2990WX (32c/64t).

Read the preview right here.

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cryohellinc
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#5571295 Posted on: 08/06/2018 03:06 PM

Be careful Hilbert, please grab a seatbelt when you turn it on.

P.S. great preview as always.

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#5571299 Posted on: 08/06/2018 03:12 PM

Thanks HH!

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#5571303 Posted on: 08/06/2018 03:33 PM

That is a freaking badass cooler.

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#5571307 Posted on: 08/06/2018 03:44 PM

2920X @ 649 looks like good bang for buck being 12 cores and a fair price that an average consumer might pay - they do for gfx cards so why not cpus. But $1799 for SOHO "consumer class"? Who will pay that and what software other than a benchmark would actually use it? Our software is so far behind these core counts, we need actual progress in frequency increase rather than gluing cores together. I would gladly take 8 cores at 5GHz over 16 cores at 3.5.

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#5571310 Posted on: 08/06/2018 03:49 PM

There has been some bad sockets for threadripper out there in beginning, is this still a problem?
Lotes VS Foxconn
The screws did not catch very well on some of them.

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