Reviews: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X

#5735188 Posted on: 11/26/2019 04:30 PM

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3 vs 3 nvme slots
old nvme placement vs new L design

seems better no ? well no, not if you want to actually use your slots and connectors
- rear io ports : a win for Asus
- pcie slots : who really uses 4x pcie x16 ?...more about that below
- sata ports : it's not 8, it's not even 6 it's 4 "real" sata ports + 4x Asmedia from my experience and I'm not the only one asmedia are ok for HDDs not for SSDs while the sequential speeds are ok the random read/writes are way slower than what they should be the Msi has 6 real sata ports
- how many cases have 2x usb-c at the front but only 2 usb-a ? not my lian-li dynamic xl which instead does have 4x usb3.1 + 1x usb3.2 so the creator is perfect for it
- oh yeah I said 4 "real" + 4 asmedia SATA ? my mistake it's actually 4+2 because M2.3 nvme will disable 2 sata ports
- oh yeah again I said 4x pcie x16 ? my mistake it's actually 3+(1x4) as the M2.2 nvme will slow pcie slot no4 to x4 speed
- the main non-shared nvme slot is the one below the gpu pcie slot not very smart temperature wise (unlike msi m2.1 is down right, m2.2 is down left m2.3 is vertical up right)

anyway that is a lot of negatives for me the people at msi on the other hand know what they are doing

its ur opinion not other ... its just matter of personal preference
i for one have bad experience with few msi gpus that just dying soon after warranty period
then the costumer support in my area is no good either... thus even they making attractive product, i rarely pick them over other maker

now those u mention probably make-sense, but nonetheless still Asus provide more connection/slot for those need
and those nvme slot below GPU, dont think it(warm air from GPU) will effect the temp much, probably ±5℃? ...many mobo have slot like that, msi x570 prestige also have slot like that right ? cmiiw

#5735296 Posted on: 11/26/2019 07:40 PM

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Things seem ominously lacking on the ability to purchase anything above the 3900x. ETA on some stores for the 3950x is >2 months, 3960x/70x >1 month.
Were we expecting the 3950x and above to be available for purchase now?

#5735319 Posted on: 11/26/2019 08:44 PM

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Things seem ominously lacking on the ability to purchase anything above the 3900x. ETA on some stores for the 3950x is >2 months, 3960x/70x >1 month.
Were we expecting the 3950x and above to be available for purchase now?
3950X was available on Newegg.ca yesterday. It's out of stock today. Not sure about the new Threadrippers.

#5735321 Posted on: 11/26/2019 08:51 PM

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Don't feel sorry for intel , take a tablet and when you wake up in the morning and have been converted to amd, you will feel grand, so easy to leave the dark side :p

Thanks Hilbert - I liked the review and that 2nd post with pic

#5735344 Posted on: 11/26/2019 10:28 PM

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Excellent review! It sums it all up neatly. AMD is going to be a moving target now and in the future so Intel has its work cut out for it. Unlike the K7/A64/Opteron era, the days of AMD waiting around for Intel to catch up and exceed them are no more--that's a relic of a bygone era. With 64c/128t TRs coming in the next ~six months to the consumer desktop market (the concept is mind boggling!) Intel's job of catching up just ramped up another order of magnitude. Yes, indeed, people who buy 8/16/24/32/64-core CPUs aren't much interested in single-threaded programming, of course...! MT is the future of everything, imo.