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Barring a major technical problem being uncovered (hopefully the segfault thing won't be an issue) or nefarious action by Intel I cannot see how this thing can

Barring a major technical problem being uncovered (hopefully the segfault thing won't be an issue) or nefarious action by Intel I cannot see how this thing can fail. So much power at the price point. As soon as the price drops a bit I'll be replacing my FX-8350 setup with one of these. Go competition! Go AMD!

renesd 9y ago
Considering they didn't give samples to any of the linux press... ?
- arcaster 9y ago
  Haha, I'll be waiting to purchase until Linux reviews surface or MicroCenter offers the same discount on TR and i9 chips.
- jsheard 9y ago
  AMD changed their mind and are now sending samples to Phoronix (albeit too late for a launch day article). http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Segv-Response http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Seg... > We will also now be receiving Threadripper and Epyc hardware for testing to confirm their Linux state.
TheJazi13 9y ago
Wasn’t the segfault issue determined to be a bug in the php steps?
- loeg 9y ago
  Some of it was, but not all. There are still issues in some chips and some customers are getting RMAs.
dmoy 9y ago
I mean I could guess one way it'd fail - if they market it heavily to the PC gaming market, and their single threaded performance isn't as good at similar price points. There's still lot of workloads out there that can't take advantage of 4 threads, let alone 16/32+. I would assume they don't market it heavily to gaming, but it's like the second thing they mention on their main landing page, so... idk.
- paulmd 9y ago
  AMD is already making a big marketing push about "you need 32 lanes for SLI/CrossFire!". Which is utterly false, at 3.0 speeds x8x8 only costs you a few percent at most. Strangely x16x16 can actually hurt you in a few titles, which suggests we may just be seeing some other kind of variation/noise anyway. http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-per... https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performance-PCI-E-3-0-x8-vs-x16-851/ https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performan... Threadripper is no better than a Ryzen 7 at gaming, and in fact is often worse (often closer to a Ryzen 5). If you really buy into the need for x16x16 then getting a 6850K is really the obvious answer, it competes with Ryzen core-for-core in both performance and efficiency and since it's a HEDT product you get the 40 PCIe lanes as well as quad-channel RAM. Somewhat pricier than Ryzen, given, but actually much cheaper than Threadripper.

renesd 9y ago

Considering they didn't give samples to any of the linux press... ?

arcaster 9y ago
Haha, I'll be waiting to purchase until Linux reviews surface or MicroCenter offers the same discount on TR and i9 chips.
jsheard 9y ago
AMD changed their mind and are now sending samples to Phoronix (albeit too late for a launch day article). http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Segv-Response http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Seg... > We will also now be receiving Threadripper and Epyc hardware for testing to confirm their Linux state.

TheJazi13 9y ago

Wasn’t the segfault issue determined to be a bug in the php steps?

loeg 9y ago
Some of it was, but not all. There are still issues in some chips and some customers are getting RMAs.

dmoy 9y ago

I mean I could guess one way it'd fail - if they market it heavily to the PC gaming market, and their single threaded performance isn't as good at similar price points. There's still lot of workloads out there that can't take advantage of 4 threads, let alone 16/32+. I would assume they don't market it heavily to gaming, but it's like the second thing they mention on their main landing page, so... idk.

paulmd 9y ago
AMD is already making a big marketing push about "you need 32 lanes for SLI/CrossFire!". Which is utterly false, at 3.0 speeds x8x8 only costs you a few percent at most. Strangely x16x16 can actually hurt you in a few titles, which suggests we may just be seeing some other kind of variation/noise anyway. http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-per... https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performance-PCI-E-3-0-x8-vs-x16-851/ https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performan... Threadripper is no better than a Ryzen 7 at gaming, and in fact is often worse (often closer to a Ryzen 5). If you really buy into the need for x16x16 then getting a 6850K is really the obvious answer, it competes with Ryzen core-for-core in both performance and efficiency and since it's a HEDT product you get the 40 PCIe lanes as well as quad-channel RAM. Somewhat pricier than Ryzen, given, but actually much cheaper than Threadripper.