Apparently, if you were interested in using these for a DAW, you might want to wait for Tech Report's review[1]. They're late to the party[2] because AMD didn't

Apparently, if you were interested in using these for a DAW, you might want to wait for Tech Report's review[1]. They're late to the party[2] because AMD didn't send them a review kit until TR publicly asked their readers for a CPU to review[3]. Maybe because TR is one of very few publications using DAWBench? [1] https://twitter.com/jkampman_tr/status/895645729972080640 https://twitter.com/jkampman_tr/status/895645729972080640 [2] http://techreport.com/news/32377/here-a-sneak-peek-at-our-ryzen-threadripper-results?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techreport%2Fall+%28The+Tech+Report%29 http://techreport.com/news/32377/here-a-sneak-peek-at-our-ry... [3] http://techreport.com/news/32343/updated-wanted-for-review-amd-ryzen-threadripper-cpus http://techreport.com/news/32343/updated-wanted-for-review-a... Ryzen is also comparatively poor at DAW workloads.