AMD Threadripper

[zombie67]

Really good info! Thanks JPM!

[DrPop]

Not sure how fast you need the new rig, but Ryzen 2 is due out in March with a die shrink to 12nm. That should help make AMD more competitive, I would think especially in the efficiency department. (Unless they spend their "gains" all on speed instead.) As I understand it, you can get higher efficiency or higher speed out of a solid die shrink, or a little of each. Will be interesting to see which way they went and also if they added any tweaks to help their chips running AVX code, etc.

[zombie67]

Not sure how fast you need the new rig, but Ryzen 2 is due out in March with a die shrink to 12nm. That should help make AMD more competitive, I would think especially in the efficiency department. (Unless they spend their "gains" all on speed instead.) As I understand it, you can get higher efficiency or higher speed out of a solid die shrink, or a little of each. Will be interesting to see which way they went and also if they added any tweaks to help their chips running AVX code, etc.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12233..._medium=social

Looks like v2 of Threadripper is not due until the second half of 2018. When a company gives a date range, it usually means the end of that range. So December. A year from now.




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[DrPop]

Bummer, didn't realize Threadripper was on a different schedule than their other chips. Makes sense though, they probably sell multiples of the others for every single threadripper, so have to get what sells out the pipeline first to support the other. Not to mention the higher complexity of the threadripper design.

[zombie67]

Ryzen price cuts! Some of them fairly significant. Your move, Intel.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12238..._medium=social


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[MindCrime]

Was just doing some wishful reading about threadripper. I see there's a "gaming mode," and from what I understand is that you can swap between a high bandwidth/higher latency memory profile or a lower bandwidth/low latency memory profile. I'd assume the gaming mode would be better for BOINC but I'm sure that varies with core usage and specific project/application behavior.

Another good reason, as JPM mentioned, to get the fastest/lowest latency memory you can find.

[Fire$torm]

I am contemplating selling off some old hardware including my current crunching rig and use the funds to build a Ryzen 7 1700X or Ryzen 7 1800X system. If I get serious about it, I'll start a thread for discussion.

Question: Am I wrong in assuming Ryzen will support Win7 Ultimate x64?

[Bryan]

Question: Am I wrong in assuming Ryzen will support Win7 Ultimate x64?

Gerasim is showing several that are running Win7.

[purplecfh]

I am currently thinking of replacing some old hardware with a new Ryzen build as well, but I am waiting on the detail/specs of the Ryzen 2 line up in April before I make any moves.

[Bryan]

Personally I'd wait and see if they fix the AVX problems.