Appreciate this is far from a deal for everyone, or indeed anybody without a specific need to own arguably one of the finest processors ever created, but this price represents a £50 saving over the UK stores.
This CPU was designed for professional applications, deep learning, AI, rendering and so on, but it will of course do anything you want of it, they also OC extremely well to 4.1GHZ.
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dozstanford
11 Aug 17#1
Ok, with the exception of folding, mining and other niche uses, exactly what software utalises more than 4 cores ?
emodan to dozstanford
11 Aug 17#2
Playing games whilst streaming it also. Rendering software like blender and essentially all productivity software available for video editing
CampGareth to dozstanford
11 Aug 17#5
I've got 16 cores in my system (dual old xeons) and it can stream while gaming really well. I'm also slowly converting video from h264 to h265 for the space savings, that takes weeks on a quad core but days on my system.
Roger_Irrelevant to CampGareth
11 Aug 17#8
Out of interest how are you doing the video conversion? I'm assuming if there's loads of them it's some batch file or other util where you just point it at a folder then tell it to get on with it?
Interested in doing this as I have about 1Tb of comedy and 2 of documentaries that would benefit from x265 if there's no detectable loss of quality. :nerd:
CampGareth to Roger_Irrelevant
11 Aug 17#30
In my tests there's no noticeable quality loss until you blow up a frame to 500% or so, then it's possible to notice a very weak de-noise effect.
Unfortunately I'm not doing batch processing though I really should be, it's all manual Handbrake for now. It shouldn't be hard to write a bash script that runs a command on a file when there's a new file in a folder, a batch script running against a NAS on the other hand... (Windows user :disappointed: )
taras to CampGareth
11 Aug 17#33
on handbrake you can queue a folder worth of files to be converted
Roger_Irrelevant to taras
11 Aug 17#37
But don't you have to set the options and output file on each one?
I'm sure there should be an avconv.exe command along the lines of...
for each (file) in (folder) avconv.exe %in.mp4 %out.mp4 -format x265 Next
Or something but I've not used it for ages.
powerbrick
11 Aug 17#3
"Better than Intel in almost every way", except when it gets totally crapped on by a 7740K in gaming.
Ashe to powerbrick
11 Aug 17#6
By "totally crapped on", I guess you mean like how in the review they say "So compelling is the overall Threadripper package that these small differences in gaming performance matter little" ?
The_Hoff to powerbrick
11 Aug 17#7
In the same way that an aeroplane craps on a bicycle. What other irrelevant comparisons can we make?
7900x/Xeon is the only comparison you should be making, go read.
powerbrick to The_Hoff
11 Aug 17#12
Read what? Your analogy make no sense? I just replied to the quote you posted, not my fault if you gave it no context.
Also if you were using this chip in a professional environment you wouldn't be overclocking.
Now wheres that Vega :smile:
Incidently I did vote it hot, cause its a good price.
The_Hoff to powerbrick
11 Aug 17#13
Did you read the Ars Tec review before you took the time to troll?
They like it, you don't, you have an opinion, they know what they're talking about. Subtleties I guess!
powerbrick to The_Hoff
11 Aug 17#15
Please feel free to highlight where I said I didn't like it?
The_Hoff to powerbrick
11 Aug 17#16
Think we've run our course mate, you don't understand the product, that's fine. It's niche as a HEDT processor.
For those wanting such a thing, it's the cheapest price.
Tim1292 to powerbrick
11 Aug 17#25
It doesn't need to be overclocked anyway, it has XFR which will take it to the maximum overclockable frequency of 4.2 GHz. I think all overclocking will do is force all cores to run at that speed instead of only one or two.
strukef to The_Hoff
11 Aug 17#35
but bicycle craps on aeroplane in parking at your local Tesco
K1LLER_HORNET to powerbrick
11 Aug 17#17
If you listen hard enough you can hear the faint sound of Intel sobbing in the corner.
7740K HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :popcorn:
Please tell me you bought that chip so I can laugh some more.
The_Hoff to K1LLER_HORNET
11 Aug 17#18
He'll be a few minutes mate, he's just cooking his breakfast on it.
emodan
11 Aug 17#4
If your buying an AMD cpu for gaming your better off with a Ryzen 5 as this is not a gaming cpu
othen
11 Aug 17#9
So, this is £50 off a £1000 processor that almost no one needs? Not very hot I'm afraid.
Kushan to othen
11 Aug 17#27
It's a hot deal for those that do need it. Just because you don't need it doesn't make it any less of a deal. You don't downvote a deal on a sofa because you already have one.
Keydogg to Kushan
11 Aug 17#28
This guy gets it
Picard123 to Kushan
11 Aug 17#31
Somehow I suspect that the type of person who spends £1000 on a CPU like this isn't really going to care about £50 here or there....
imak
11 Aug 17#10
My CSGO FPS is going.to.go through the roof!!!
donslibi
11 Aug 17#11
I thought it was an entire PC at that price, and the picture a PC case.
MikeLondon
11 Aug 17#14
5% discount and you have to get fron Amazon.de - joker
taras
11 Aug 17#19
hooooooooooot from me..
Considering this beast of a processor, does 4.1ghz on all cores, its a monster for the right application.
This is a niche product for those who need stupid amounts processing power. Otherwise, you should get a ryzen r7 or r5!. As for those who say "oh theres no program or game that needs more than four cores"
lets take that argument, ok, your games may today need only 4 cores, but windows needs some cores; take 2 because that makes windows pretty fluid. so straight off you need 6 cores.
Oh and those games are "yesterday games" as in they were made for specs 18 to 24 months ago. More and more games will use more than 4 cores, so that argument is dumb and stupid.
You should be getting as many cores and high ghz as possible(afford) (now that intel and amd are levelish on ipc)
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This CPU was designed for professional applications, deep learning, AI, rendering and so on, but it will of course do anything you want of it, they also OC extremely well to 4.1GHZ.
"Better than Intel in almost every way"
arstechnica.com/gad…0x/
Make sure you choose EUR currency, and pay with a fee free card/Revolut/Monzo.
All comments (53)
Interested in doing this as I have about 1Tb of comedy and 2 of documentaries that would benefit from x265 if there's no detectable loss of quality. :nerd:
Unfortunately I'm not doing batch processing though I really should be, it's all manual Handbrake for now. It shouldn't be hard to write a bash script that runs a command on a file when there's a new file in a folder, a batch script running against a NAS on the other hand... (Windows user :disappointed: )
I'm sure there should be an avconv.exe command along the lines of...
for each (file) in (folder)
avconv.exe %in.mp4 %out.mp4 -format x265
Next
Or something but I've not used it for ages.
7900x/Xeon is the only comparison you should be making, go read.
Also if you were using this chip in a professional environment you wouldn't be overclocking.
Now wheres that Vega :smile:
Incidently I did vote it hot, cause its a good price.
They like it, you don't, you have an opinion, they know what they're talking about. Subtleties I guess!
For those wanting such a thing, it's the cheapest price.
7740K HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :popcorn:
Please tell me you bought that chip so I can laugh some more.
Considering this beast of a processor, does 4.1ghz on all cores, its a monster for the right application.
This is a niche product for those who need stupid amounts processing power. Otherwise, you should get a ryzen r7 or r5!. As for those who say "oh theres no program or game that needs more than four cores"
lets take that argument, ok, your games may today need only 4 cores, but windows needs some cores; take 2 because that makes windows pretty fluid. so straight off you need 6 cores.
Oh and those games are "yesterday games" as in they were made for specs 18 to 24 months ago. More and more games will use more than 4 cores, so that argument is dumb and stupid.
You should be getting as many cores and high ghz as possible(afford) (now that intel and amd are levelish on ipc)