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It does get them a foot in the door though since most people never considered anything but Xeon. Personally I'll get an AMD the next time I upgrade just for var

It does get them a foot in the door though since most people never considered anything but Xeon. Personally I'll get an AMD the next time I upgrade just for variety; even if Intel would take the performance lead next generation. (Currently sitting on two E5-2660v2 for reference)

snuxoll 9y ago
Especially at the pricing of AMD's parts, it'll cost me $400-500 for a Xeon E5-2420v2 to upgrade the E5-2403v2 in my TD340 to something more reasonable clock-speed and core/thread-wise - not to mention I HAVE to buy two of them to get full access to the PCIe lanes and memory capacity of the thing. I think instead of upgrading this thing any more I'll just sell it and build a new EPYC system once the parts are available outside of OEM configurations. At $600 the EPYC 7281 is a steal - 16c/32t, a full 128 PCIe lanes plus four memory channels (with 2TB of memory supported) on a single socket.
tracker1 9y ago
I'm not running workstation hardware, been on an i7-4790K for a few years now, but sometimes constrained on ram at 32gb, and recently went to a 1gb nvme for my primary drive + gtx1080. I will say that even Threadripper is compelling on value, and Epyc equally so. I'll probably go Threadripper for my next system, depending on how the next year or so shape up. Everyone using these systems has different needs, some need raw CPU power, others more memory, some max both. Intel has carved out too many parts to maximize profits and confuse customers. AMD seems to be sized "just right" on their parts, without killing features. I'm still pretty happy with my ~3yo pc, I did ditch windows as my desktop OS earlier this year. (aside: win10's aggressive advertising in the OS finally irritated me too much, and I'm not the only one).
- sliken 9y ago
  Dunno, I think talking myself into a Ryzen, but I wanted ECC and not some hand waving that it might work. Intel's coffee lake i7 6 core/12 threads (i7-8700) is looking like it will beat the ryzen on single thread and multithread workloads. At least that's the leaked benchmarks so far. I'm hoping that the Xeon E3 flavor of the i7 is out shortly afterwards. Should make for a great workstation and guarantees ECC. I was shopping for ECC threadripper boards and they often don't mention ECC. I'm hoping AMD fixes that and brings out a threadripper down to $350 (with the Intel x-series starts).

snuxoll 9y ago

Especially at the pricing of AMD's parts, it'll cost me $400-500 for a Xeon E5-2420v2 to upgrade the E5-2403v2 in my TD340 to something more reasonable clock-speed and core/thread-wise - not to mention I HAVE to buy two of them to get full access to the PCIe lanes and memory capacity of the thing. I think instead of upgrading this thing any more I'll just sell it and build a new EPYC system once the parts are available outside of OEM configurations. At $600 the EPYC 7281 is a steal - 16c/32t, a full 128 PCIe lanes plus four memory channels (with 2TB of memory supported) on a single socket.

tracker1 9y ago

I'm not running workstation hardware, been on an i7-4790K for a few years now, but sometimes constrained on ram at 32gb, and recently went to a 1gb nvme for my primary drive + gtx1080. I will say that even Threadripper is compelling on value, and Epyc equally so. I'll probably go Threadripper for my next system, depending on how the next year or so shape up. Everyone using these systems has different needs, some need raw CPU power, others more memory, some max both. Intel has carved out too many parts to maximize profits and confuse customers. AMD seems to be sized "just right" on their parts, without killing features. I'm still pretty happy with my ~3yo pc, I did ditch windows as my desktop OS earlier this year. (aside: win10's aggressive advertising in the OS finally irritated me too much, and I'm not the only one).

sliken 9y ago
Dunno, I think talking myself into a Ryzen, but I wanted ECC and not some hand waving that it might work. Intel's coffee lake i7 6 core/12 threads (i7-8700) is looking like it will beat the ryzen on single thread and multithread workloads. At least that's the leaked benchmarks so far. I'm hoping that the Xeon E3 flavor of the i7 is out shortly afterwards. Should make for a great workstation and guarantees ECC. I was shopping for ECC threadripper boards and they often don't mention ECC. I'm hoping AMD fixes that and brings out a threadripper down to $350 (with the Intel x-series starts).