Tech preview: AMD Ryzen 3000 - Incl Ryzen 9 3950X (16-core)

#5679046 Posted on: 06/11/2019 12:12 AM

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everybody is in the livestream thread but im just gonna say that 3600 is a hell of a good deal & leave it at that

#5679085 Posted on: 06/11/2019 12:51 AM

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I own the ryzen 1700 with a 1070 ftw I cant wait to get the 3600 as to the 8c16t which I almost never use all of it it's going to be a great buy for alot of people, even when you pair it with a b350 and up.I still wonder why Intel has yet to do this type tree line with cpus.

#5679090 Posted on: 06/11/2019 12:57 AM

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1700 here too, its all down to what we use our rigs for, cuz ill be grabbing the 3950x the moment it hits shelves.

#5679095 Posted on: 06/11/2019 01:08 AM

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Hope higher quality overview pictures will go up soon.

#5679105 Posted on: 06/11/2019 01:29 AM

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Regarding the 3950X... since AMD will be selling it with a cooler, that component has to figure into the guaranteed boost. Coolers can't be binned like silicon, especially since the interface quality will be uncontrolled.

Meaning that AMD will be forced to leave performance on the table, as margin.

Meaning that premium cooling could very well enable PBO / XFR to push the boost significantly higher.

I'll bet that with top air cooling most 3950X will boost at least 100 MHz higher. And on water, well, maybe 5.0GHz. Unless they lock it at 4.70GHz; that would be unfortunate and IMHO not in their best interests overall.

Personally I'd rather they omitted the cooler from the top chips, for exactly this reason. I'll hate to throw it away...