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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought the EPRC was available now. Way more cores if the software will take advantage.

Indeed EPYC is available, and has been reviewed. The thing I don't like about it (on my first take) is that single-core performance really gets trounced by the latest Xeon, and another generation of Xeon is about to get launched.

My needs for this workstation are to run some design software that can sometimes be sped up by multi-core, but for other segments is bottlenecked by single-core performance.

Also, my budget is not really ready for either Xeon or EPYC prices! At most, that upcoming iMac Pro, starting at $5000 for a Xeon-based all-in-one, might be justifiable. Then again, that won't be available until December, which means in reality, February....

This makes me think Threadripper may be the "sweet spot" - provided I can drive a system based on it hard (i.e. thermal reliability) and the system has ECC RAM (so my designs don't have deadly flaws sneak in due to data corruption).

9 posted on 07/20/2017 7:47:05 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian
Dell has the exclusive from AMD till 2018 to offer a complete threadripper with Alienware line,...no idea how pricey they will be,...July 25 win info on various stuff will be made by AMD...

And from GURU3D :

ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock to Reveal X399 motherboards July 25th

The ASUS Flagship is rumored to go for $349 .

That from the wccftech website.

10 posted on 07/21/2017 10:29:14 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Yossarian
Dell has the exclusive from AMD till 2018 to offer a complete threadripper with Alienware line,...no idea how pricey they will be,...July 25 win info on various stuff will be made by AMD...

And from GURU3D :

ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock to Reveal X399 motherboards July 25th

The ASUS Flagship is rumored to go for $349 .

That from the wccftech website.

11 posted on 07/21/2017 10:29:40 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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