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    Threadripper 2970WX & 2920X Review, AMD Effectively Eliminates Skylake-X

    Here is one perspective on the High end AMD chips.
    I know anyone that needs or wants to buy hardware are thinking about "Black Friday"

    Video courtesy of our friends @ Hardware Unboxed
    Published on Oct 29, 2018



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    With Zen 2, the NUMA disadvantage should disappear and so the benches affected by it, such as 7-Zip compression, should no longer be so.

    That does nothing for these CPUs, so there that ...

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    Yeah, the 2 biggest drawbacks of threadripper 2, weird and high latencies + somewhat low clocks comapred to intel are gonna be fixed in Ryzen3/TR3 +2x faster avx on top.Im waiting out this year.But really have high hopes for the third ones .TBH i would want a 16 core TR3 on 4 channel memory with pcie4(a high possibility with a new mobo), this setup should last like a decade.
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