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7 years ago it was doable to build similar desktop at similar price from refurbished server (4x6core Opteron CPU, 128GB DDR2 ECC RAM). It took about 1KW and wa

• tracker1 7y ago
  The memory access performance on ThreadRipper (and current Ryzen/Epyc) is much better than anything prior to this generation for workstation loads. Not that the shared I/O controller is without cost, only that it tends to average out better in most cases where multiple cores across chips are in use together. Just got my 3950X w/ 64gb ram, not sure that I'd be able to practically use any more compute than this for what I play with, which is mostly multiple back-ends and some container orchestration for local dev and occasionally video re-encodes (BR-Ripping for NAS). Some think $4k for this CPU is too much... considering the shear performance that you can get these days for under $10K there's never been a better time to build or buy a computer. My only regret is wasting time and money on aRGB that I cannot configure in Linux.