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Have you looked into one of these guys [1]? They go for ~800USD for 16/32 cores/threads. You can get a good high-end build for ~1500USD. It behaves like a moder

• mentos 9y ago
  I had done some very basic research on it and found that the performance for the 'Lightmass' program used in Unreal Engine called Swarm was not ideal https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/off-topic/1388243-ue4-dev-rig-threadripper-1950x-or-i7-8700k https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/off-topic/1388243-... From that thread: "Definitely not the threadripper - there were some benchmarks scattered around in other topics and it's actually slower at compiling and lighting builds than my 7820X, while costing more to build a system with." But not sure if I should trust those opinions from the dev community as the benchmarks aren't too sophisticated. I'll continue doing more research on those thank you! I think dual epyc could be interesting for the cost.