meh, i don't believe those rumors. would be nice, but i think they need to work on clock speed and cross-CCX latency. and i think clock speed will be one hell of a challenge on a new process... one that pretty much nobody has used before, or at least at these clock speeds (mobile barely counts) and voltages.
Well, rumours/rumors have it that the fastest Ryzen 7's and 9's will get up to and beyond 5 GHz....nothing known about their cross-CCX latency yet though.
But also nice to know that the lowest 3000-series Ryzen 3, the Ryzen 3 3300, will have 6 cores/12 threads -able to do 3.2 Ghz (base) up to 4.0 GHz (turbo) at 50 Watt TDP and all that at $99.99....
Makes you wonder what the Athlon 300GE will be capable off....
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 01-05-2019 at 11:05 PM.
The new recommendation is to buy a recent Socket AM4 mobo -you might already own one, you just may have to update your BIOS- and a 65 Watt TDP Ryzen 9 3900, as soon as they become available for Joe Sixpack -us, that is. If the A320 board you bought before had a too small BIOS chip (32MB instead of 64MB, IIRC) you may need to buy a new AM4 board. Check the cpu support info of the board of your choice. At least MSI (the MAX boards) and Asrock (R3.0 and R4.0) have A320 boards that will support the R9 3900. The CPU support page of my own Asrock A320M Pro4 does mention the 105 Watt TDP R9 3900X, but makes no mention of the 65 Watt TDP R9 3900, strange.
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 10-21-2019 at 10:29 PM.
well, now with the Ryzen 1600AF for $85 back in stock, get two of those, two cheap mobos (buy with an AmEx or Mastercard to extend warranty by a year... and then pay it off immediately, of course). cheaper than the threadripper (those $250+ (new) boards are oooofff)
But you no longer need a Threadripper to build a 24-thread cruncher. A simple AM4 board with a Ryzen 9 3900 (65 Watt tdp) or 3900X (105 Watt tdp) is enough,
needing just one PSU, one set RAM, one mobo, one graphics card. Pitty the Ryzen 9 3900 seems to be an OEM model...
2 1600 AFs (maybe with a PSU splitter ... or cheapish PSUs) is cheaper than a 3900X, tho!
oh, speaking of PSUs, have you seen either the LTT PSU Tier List or a g.sheet The Power Supply Guide? kinda interesting...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...FEHmrc_SPuYsjs
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic...-tier-list-40/
amused to see my beloved Seasonics S12IIs in Tier D lol
Last edited by plonk420; 02-15-2020 at 07:09 AM.
Problem is that, even while purchasing two Ryzen 5 1600 systems may be actually cheaper, running two systems 24/7/365 is more expensive than running one.
Two times the Wattage for both CPU and GPU adds up, and two times the rest of a system does too.
well, i'm trying to confirm whether it can run headless, but the power consumption should be somewhere around 80-100 watts x 2 vs 190-210 without GPUs
Funny thing here is that some of the better rated PSUs are sold by the likes of Cooler Master and Corsair. I am not saying that these are bad products, but who actually makes them?
Both Cooler Master and Corsair have no factories with their name on it. They just order, to their specifications, at other manufactures (like e.g. SeaSonic)